Dietary Habits of Adults Hypertensive Patients Admitted in Cardiology of Deido District Hospital, Cameroon.
Overweight and obesity because of their strong prevalence and their implications as major risk factors of chronic diseases related to nutrition, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and hypertension are today the most significant threats of public health on a worldwide scale.
Indeed, many developing countries have experienced a very significant increase in the prevalence of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and hypertension. According to world health organization (WHO), hypertension comes in second position, after smoking but before alcoholism, on the list of the factors decreasing the number of years of life in good health. Moreover, high blood pressure increases morbidity and cardiovascular mortality
The recent data of the WHO indicate that nearly a billion people in the world suffer from hypertension. Because of the aging of the population, the forecasts suggest that this number could increase to 1.5 billion in 2025. According to the Cameroon Heart Foundation, the statistics relating to arterial hypertension are worrisome. This arterial hypertension causes 17.3 million deaths in the world. Among those, 80% occur in the countries with average or weak incomes.
In Cameroon, 35% of the adult population suffers from arterial hypertension; 17,000 people there die each year. In Cameroon, the situation of people suffering high blood pressure is alarming; besides, it worth noting that the nutritional management is neglected even non-existent in hospitals. Nowadays, in spite of the free screening and public awareness campaigns, more and more of people die of this pathology either by negligence or by ignorance, or even for lack of nutritional follow-up.
Adv Food Technol Nutr Sci Open J. 2019; 5(1): 1-7. doi: 10.17140/AFTNSOJ-5-150
