Dietetic treatment for metabolic syndrome

    PAN Wenª²Song, LIANG Guiª²Zhen, ZHAO Tianª²Jiao

    Department of Nutrition, First People¬ðs Hospital of Foshan City, Foshan 528000, China

    ¡¾Abstract¡¿ AIM: To investigate the relationship between diet and metabolic syndrome (MS). METHODS: Sixtyª²two inpatients in our hospital were randomly divided into 2 groups: Patients in control group were simply treated with drugs and no diet control and patients in dietetic treatment group were given balance diets with low cholesterol, high vitamins and high fiber food. The body weight, blood pressure, blood lipoprotein and blood sugar were detected before and after the treatment. RESULTS: In treatment group, the average body weight decreased markedly after 3 months¬ð diet treatment (P<0.05), 22 (70.9%) patients had normal blood pressure. The serum glucose blood sugar was (7.3¡À1.0) mmol/L (after the treatment) as compared with (11.7¡À2.3) mmol/L (before the treatment) and total cholesterol was (4.2¡À0.9) mmol/L (after the treatment) as compared with (7.0¡À1.0) mmol/L (before the treatment), with significant difference (P<0.01). CONCLUSION: Diet and MS are closely related and balanced diets with low cholesterol, high vitamins and high fiber food can enhance the effect of the drugs and decrease the body weight, the blood lipoprotein and blood sugar. ......