BACKGROUND The dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) dietary pattern reduces blood pressure. However, there is little information about the relationship between DASH and coronary heart diseases. This study aimed to assess the relationship between a DASH-style diet adherence score and coronary heart diseases (CHD) in patients referring for coronary angiography. METHODS In this study, ...

many common diseases, including cardiovascular disease (cvd) are associated with diet. hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes and obesity are major risk factors for cvd which are diet-related and the incidence of which is on the increase in isfahan, iran. this cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted, using the 24-hour recall questionnaire, to determine dietary pattern of the adult (>19 ...

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 Diet is a behavior that affects nutrition. The quality and quantity of food beverages consumed will affect health. This causes nutritional deficiencies, healthy balanced diet needed to support the smooth running busy daily activities, such as overseas students. purpose this study was examine effect with symptoms anemia in method used descriptive, namely by filling out questionnai...

The metabolic syndrome has become a significant problem in Asian countries recently due to the change in dietary habit and life style. Bayesian networks provide a robust formalism for probabilistic modeling, so they have been used as a method for prognostic model in medical domain. Since K2 algorithm is influenced by an input order of the attributes, optimization of BN attribute ordering is stu...

Educational advice is often given to patients starting treatment with vitamin K Antagonists (VKAs). A great emphasis is made on nutritional information. Common belief is that dietary vitamin K intake could counteract the anticoagulant effect by VKAs and for many years, patients have been discouraged to consume vitamin-K-rich foods, such as green leafy vegetables.The objective of this study is t...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of finger sucking habit among three-six-year-old children from kindergartens of Kerman, Iran. METHODS: This descriptive, cross-sectional study used census sampling to select 1000 children from 40 kindergartens. Data was collected by a checklist and clinical examination.  Chi-square test in SPSS16 was used for statisti...

Background Parental supervised brushing (PSB) when initiated in infancy can lead to long-term protective home-based oral health habits thereby reducing the risk of dental caries. However, PSB is a complex behaviour with many barriers reported by parents hindering its effective implementation. Within the UK, oral health advice is delivered universally to parents by health visitors and their wide...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of overweight, obesity and nutritional habits in schoolchildren aged 10-18 years. METHODS Contemporary, cross-sectional, population-based study, with a stratified probabilistic sample of secondary schools in Porto Alegre comprising a total of 511 schoolchildren. Data on family risk factors, anthropometrics and eating habits were collected. RESULTS The pr...