A Cross-sectional Study of Nutritional Status and Cardiovascular Health Status among Housewives in Tegal Regency, Central Java

Mohammad Arif Ali,Phan Duc Anh Tran,Chia-En Yang,Sugiarto Sugiarto,Natsuangkorn Kongchulagul,Setya Rahayu,Gustiana Mega Anggita

doi:10.15294/kemas.v16i1.25370

Abstract

Unhealthy diet and physical inactivity are two major factors related to degenerative diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and it is still growing issues that mainly occurred in developing countries like Indonesia. It is a descriptive quantitative study, aims to investigate nutritional also cardiovascular health status among housewives in Tegal Regency, Central Java. Twenty adult women (33-57 years old) were voluntary and randomly signed up. Data on body weight (kg), height (cm), waist circumference (cm), hip circumference (cm), systolic-diastolic blood pressure (mm/hg) were collected by survey and measurement techniques. IBM SPSS 21 used to perform descriptive quantitative analysis for all data. Body mass index: 35% obese, 45% pre-obese, 5% overweight, 15% ideal weight. Waist circumference: 35% low category, 65% high category. Waist-to-hip ratio: 60% at risk of chronic diseases, 35% moderate, 5% good. Blood pressure: 40% hypertension stage-two, 25% hypertension stage-one, 25% elevated, 10% normal. Pre-obese and obese have found as the current nutritional status, followed by overweight. Meanwhile, hypertension has found as the current cardiovascular health status, followed by elevated blood pressure. This novel is empirical evidence for the housewife to be more physically active, and manage the diet to improve their health status.

Highlights

A housewife is the most important person in the family, it is determinant how a family to adapt, to develop, to prevent, and to fix any problem like health problems which occurred in the family
Different spectrum of physical inactivity causes different effects on health problems. It is categorized from motorized transportation like using scooters versus using bike; aging affecting the physical activity levels; sitting as Mohammad Arif Ali, et al / A Cross-sectional Study of Nutritional Status and Cardiovascular Health Status sedentary lifestyle pattern such as job, school, home; sub-orbital space flight such as aircraft crews or astronauts; immobilization and/or wheelchair caused orthopedic leg surgery; physical frailty like wheelchair, walker, and/or bed rest; recovery from medical condition; both arms and legs/cervical, legs/thoracic, leg and lower abdomen/lumbar, legs and hips/ sacral due to spinal cord paralysis/weakness, (Booth et al, 2017)
From total sample in this study we have found only two categories, there are: low category is 35% (7 samples), and high category is 65% (13 samples), data are in table 1

Summary

Introduction

A housewife is the most important person in the family, it is determinant how a family to adapt, to develop, to prevent, and to fix any problem like health problems which occurred in the family. There is a positive correlation between nutritional status and the physical fitness levels in adult women, those who have balanced diet and exercise program are having good fitness levels, (Utami, 2012).

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