Particularităţile nutriţionale şi de comportament ale populaţiei în geneza bolilor aparatului digestiv

Abstract

Background. Digestive diseases, the third leading cause of death in Romania (4.9% of total deaths in 2010), are responsible for the annual loss of about 77 persons/100,000 population in 2009-2010, increasing compared to 2005. The large share these diseases have in pathology, high potential disabling of some of them, their interactions with environmental factors and food require their knowledge in early stages, treatment and prevention of complications. Aims. Aim of this study are to estimate the particularities of nutrition and the health of people with diseases of the digestive system, highlighting behavioral risk factors and preventive measures development in Cluj County. Methods. There were established two study groups, each made up of 255 people, including 1st lot that includes people taking one of the Cluj County digestive diseases known, and the 2nd lot that is being made of the population compared to the same county that have not been diagnosed diseases of the digestive tract. Results. In the study there were identified and prioritized key digestive disorders diagnosed in the group of subjects who are established in a particular period in Gastroenterology Clinic of Cluj Napoca. They determine relations between morbidity by diseases of the digestive and behavioral risk factors and they were developing preventive measures determining the impact of behavioral risk factors in the onset and development of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Conclusions. 1. In the conducted study found that digestive pathology had a wide representation among the investigated subjects, including all segments of the digestive tract. 2. At all digestive pathologies studied could not detect a single factor, each being able pathology could be assigned several factors (food, behavioral, environmental etc.). 3. Food factor can be considered as the predominant factor in the onset, maintenance or aggravation of digestive pathologies studied. 4. In the conducted study it was established as risk factors (along with the food) also smoking, alcohol consumption, a family history and even some vitamin deficiencies. 5. Extended studied digestive pathology is found distributed in proportions relative to the geographic areas studied area of Cluj County. On the regions, distribution percentages are so close that differences are considered unsignificant (North East – 22%, 23% – Northwest, Southwest - 29% and Southeast - 26%).