DIETARY EFFECTS ON HEMO-LIPID PROFILE

Abstract

A study had been being undertaken to estimate the dietaryeffects on blood lipid profile of young male and female university students. Lipid profile is a group of teststhat are often ordered together to determine risk of coronary heart diseases by estimating blood cholesterol,low density lipoprotein (LDL), high density lipoprotein (HDL) and triglycerides. For the estimation, bloodsamples of each 30 female and male volunteers had been centrifuged and plasma had been separated foranalysis. Levels of lipid profile parameters had been measured by recommended kit method and colordeveloped had been measured by spectrophotomer. The results had been presented as mean±SD. Femalevolunteers had an average±SD value for cholesterol 183.1±14.8, for triglycerides 183.2±22.5, for HDL51±6.2 and for LDL 95.5±15.7, whereas male volunteers had an average ±SD value for cholesterol190±14.9, for triglycerides 222.5±18.2, for HDL 41.4±5.8 and for LDL 104.2±17.1. It had been concludedthat values of triglycerides and cholesterol were higher than the normal values for both female and malevolunteers because the content of saturated fatty acids was higher in their diets, use of vegetables, fruitsand fruit juices was very low, in some cases the number of meals taken per day was more than 5 which isnot desirable in adult people especially when their lifestyle is sedentary and in some cases smoking alteredthe levels of cholesterol and triglycerides.