Assessment of Dietary Practices Among Adults Suffering from Cholelithiasis Attending Teritary Care Hospitals, Lahore

Wafa Butt; Maria Aslam; Zainab Sharmeen; Maria Fareed; Hafiz Zain Pervaiz

doi:10.52229/ajahs.v0i0.788

Wafa Butt Peads Ward I, Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan
Maria Aslam 2Department of Community Health and Nutrition, Allama Iqbal Open University Lahore, Pakistan
Zainab Sharmeen 3Department of Food and Sciences University of Sargodha, Pakistan
Maria Fareed Deaprtment of Pharmacy, University of Lahore, Pakistan
Hafiz Zain Pervaiz School of Diet and Nutritional Sciences, University of Management Sciences Lahore, Pakistan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52229/ajahs.v0i0.788

Keywords: Cholelithiasis, Cholesterol, BMI, Dietary practices, Adults, Tertiary care Hospitals

Abstract

Less nutritional awareness, unhealthy food consumption and other risk factors leads to many severe diseases such as Cholelithiasis. People unintentionally omit food or some specifc food products due to some reasons such as cultural, social, religious norms and other preferences which leads to many chronic diseases.

Objective: To fnd out the dietary practices and among people suffering from cholelithiasis at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore

Methods: Total 100 samples of adults both male and female were selected through non- probability convenient sampling technique. Data collection was based on a simple interviewing technique with the help of food frequency questionnaire. SPSS version 21.0 was used for the analysis of data.

Results: Less nutritional awareness, unhealthy food consumption and other risk factors leads to many severe diseases such as Cholelithiasis. People unintentionally omit food or some specific food products due to some reasons such as cultural, social, religious norms and other preferences which leads to many chronic diseases.
Study revealed that out of 100 patients only 32 were physically active, 54 were frequently skipping meals. Low water intake was seen in 38 patients. 32 patients were smokers in which 1 was female and remaining 31 were males. Starvation and skipping of meals especially breakfast were seen in most of the patients. Poor food habits were also seen into majority of patients. 76 patients were taking calories less than 1500. Fruits consumption in patients was average. 79 patients were frequently consuming fried food and 79 patients were consuming excess oil from their diet.
Conclusions: It is concluded that consumption of fried foods, less nutritional awareness, low socioeconomic status, meal skipping, low physical activity ,BMI greater than 30 and other false dietary practices are directly related to the development of Cholelithiasis.