What was the lifestyle of people who died by cardiovascular diseases?
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to find out the nutrition pattern and lifestyle for people who died by CVD.


METHODS
Population included cohort from continental and island regions of Croatia characterized by different nutrition, especially considering fat and/or oil consumption. Three groups of respondents were analyzed: whole population (WP), population of people died by CVD, and at the beginning of the study they were not taking drugs (CVD-N), and population of people died by CVD, and at the beginning of the study they were taking drugs (CVD-Y).


RESULTS
Group CVD-N was characterized by higher proportion of people taking less than three meals per day (25.1%) comparing with WP (15%) and CVD-Y (10.9%); they prepare their food primarily with animal fat - even more than the whole population. Group CVD-Y was characterized by higher proportion of people preparing their food with oil, especially for preparing vegetables (63.5% comparing with 24.9% in whole population, and 16.4% in CVD-N group). Most important is the fact that CVD-N group was not different from general population, but it was very different comparing with CVD-Y. The CVD-N group smokes, consumes animal fat, alcohol, and coffee more than CVD-Y group. Blood pressure, cholesterol and post load glucose showed a little bit lower, but not significantly different values in CVD-N group comparing with CVD-Y. However the whole population show about 20 mm Hg lower blood pressure, and about 10 mg lower post load glucose comparing with both CVD-N and CVD-Y groups. CVD-Y was older in average than others, especially comparing with general population (64.9 vs. 50.1). They were also with higher BMI, 27% comparing with 25.5% in both general population and CVD-N. Age of death was also higher in average than in other groups (75 in CVD-Y group comparing with 73 in CVD-N and 72.2 in general population).
Kern
Josipa
J
Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Zagreb University Medical School, Croatia. JOSIPA.KERN@SNZ.HR
Ivankovic
Davor
D
Sogoric
Selma
S
Vuletic
Silvije
S
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*; D017523:Croatia / Q000453:epidemiology; D004032:Diet / Q000009:adverse effects; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008875:Middle Aged