Avaliação da dieta habitual de hipertensos do estado de alagoas segundo a alimentação cardioprotetora brasileira

Abstract

The incorporation of inadequate eating habits, especially the increased consumption of ultra-processed foods, contributes significantly to the development of noncommunicable chronic diseases, including systemic arterial hypertension, which, when not controlled, can be associated with the emergence of other comorbidities. The present study aimed to evaluate the usual diet of hypertensive patients in the state of Alagoas according to the Brazilian cardioprotective diet and to verify its association with sociodemographic, economic, anthropometric and clinical data of the population studied. This dissertation has two parts: the first is a literature review chapter that addresses food consumption and the development of chronic non-communicable diseases. In this review, it was possible to observe that ultra-processed foods are present in the population's eating habits, for numerous reasons, for which practicality and cost are highlighted. The second part consists of an outcome article entitled “Assessing the usual diet of hypertensive individuals based on the Brazilian cardioprotective diet: population survey”. Study carried out from the PPSUS research database with a sample of 622 hypertensive patients from the state of Alagoas, where sociodemographic, economic, anthropometric, clinical and food consumption data were collected, collected through a food frequency questionnaire validated for hypertensive patients. from Alagoas. As a conclusion of this article, it was possible to verify that the consumption of in natura or minimally processed foods, predominantly from the green group that according to the cardioprotective diet should be in greater proportion, is below the recommendations and that it accompanies the high consumption of ultra-processed food products, of consumption not recommended by cardioprotective diet. Thus, the usual diet of hypertensive patients in the state of Alagoas, Brazil reveals a dietary pattern that is far from a cardioprotective diet.