Food and nutritional education in reducing cardiovascular risks in individuals with type 2 diabetes / Educação alimentar e nutricional na redução do risco cardiovascular em indivíduos com diabetes tipo 2

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Quézia da Silva Francisco de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Carvalho, Gabrielli Barbosa de, Rodrigues, Angelina Cruz, Santos, Dayane Franciely Conceição, Santana, Lorena Izabel Oliveira de, Santos, Alisson Dantas, Fagundes, Andhressa Araújo, Pires, Liliane Viana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Veras
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.brazilianjournals.com.br/ojs/index.php/BRJD/article/view/14145
• topic: Food and Nutrition Education; Diabetes mellitus type 2; Anthropometry; Cardiovascular diseases.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of food and nutritional education on eating habits and cardiovascular risk in individuals with type 2 diabetes. In this longitudinal intervention study, participants with type 2 diabetes mellitus were evaluated before and after the intervention with food and nutritional education actions, which were performed every fifteen days for five months. Individuals were evaluated for anthropometry, systemic arterial pressure, food intake, and serum concentrations of fasting glucose and lipid control markers. The Castelli risk indexes I e II were calculated by the total cholesterol/HDL-c ratio and by the LDL-c/HDL-c ratio, respectively. Non-parametric Wilcoxon test for comparison of results between times was performed, with p-value < 0.05 considered significantly different and p-values between 0.05 and 0.10 as marginally significant. The intervention was able to promote improvement in markers related to cardiovascular risk, reducing significantly waist (p=0.015) and hip circumference (p=0.021), triciptal cutaneous (p=0.011) and subscapular cutaneous folds (p=0.005), dietary lipids (p=0.071), total cholesterol (p=0.003), LDL-c (p=0.004) and Castelli I (p=0.033) and II (p=0.002) indexes. Food and nutritional education actions were able to improve markers associated with cardiovascular risks since they the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in individuals with diabetes.