Consumo de alimentos entre pessoas com diagnóstico autorreferido de diabetes mellitus e hipertensão arterial sistêmica no município de Cuité- PB, 2022.

Abstract

The emergence of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases comes from multiple factors and diet is one of the main factors for the development of pathologies, such as Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and Systemic Arterial Hypertension (SAH), being predominantly common in the Brazilian population, these diseases cause numerous symptoms in people who are affected. The excessive consumption of sweet, processed and processed foods tends to cause the onset of DM and SAH. To evaluate the consumption of sweet, processed and ultra-processed foods among individuals with a self-reported diagnosis of hypertension and diabetes in the municipality of Cuité in 2022. This is a cross-sectional data analysis study on the frequency of food consumption in a group of people with hypertension and/or DM. The population studied is part of a larger research project entitled SANCUITÉ, with a longitudinal cohort design, which analyzed individuals across four study segments: 2011 (n=358), 2014 (n=326), 2019 (n=274 ) and 2022 (n=255). In this study, data from the fourth stage of the cohort was analyzed, collected in 2022 with the population of the municipality of Cuité-PB. Data collection was carried out through interviews carried out by Nutrition students from CES-UFCG; containing family and individual conditions, including socioeconomic information and food consumption, the categories for analysis of frequency of consumption were: “Never, infrequent and frequent”, of foods, sweets, (7 foods), sausages (8 foods) and industrialized (7 foods). Of the monitored individuals studied, 16% and 34% reported having a diagnosis of DM and SAH, respectively, with the majority being residents of urban areas (77%), female (85%), elderly (61%), people with low education level (71%) and with income above 1⁄4 minimum wage (85%). Regarding the frequency of consumption of embedded, sweet and processed foods, there was a greater consumption of embedded foods by people with DM, Sausage (66%), Ham and Mortadella (34%), sweet foods by people with SAH: Fruit Sweets (44%), Ice Cream and Popsicle (30%). With all the data collected, it was possible to observe that there is a greater consumption of foods from the sausage group by people with DM and sweet foods by people with SAH, as well as inadequate food intake contributes to the worsening of symptoms caused by these pathologies, as well. adherence to dietary treatment is of paramount importance.