Dietary habits of patients with coronary artery disease

Unhealthy eating habits as well as malnutrition represent important and independent risk factors with an increased influence on patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) being incompletely elucidated in the current literature. This study is a descriptive observational one in which 88 patients (average age of 65.61 ± 8.40 years, 68.18% being men) with BCI were included, who were divided into two groups: the group of subjects with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and the group of subjects with chronic coronary syndrome (CCS), both groups undergoing the coronary angioplasty procedure. The main objectives were to establish the correlation between unhealthy dietary pattern and the risk of CAD, as well as the influence of nutritional status on ACS and CCS. It was determined that obesity, dyslipidemia, high blood pressure, frequent consumption of red and processed meat, rare consumption of fish, increase the risks of CAD. Nutritional status assessed by the nutritional status control score (CONUT) was more frequently elevated in patients with ACS.