[Character of nutrition of the Minsk population and its relation with ischemic heart disease]

A standard one-day diet questionnaire survey covered 1025 subjects (490 males and 535 females) aged 20-59 living in the city of Minsk. They were examined in the Research Cardiology Institute of Belarus within the scope of the program on integral prevention of chronic noninfectious disease. The results of the study showed the examinees' diet to be unbalanced with an atherogenic trend: excessive fat, saturated fatty acids, cholesterol against insufficient carbohydrates, starch, polyunsaturated fatty acids. Total energy value of the food and alcohol consumption of the studied population were lower than those of the matched population of Lithuania, Moscow and Tallin. No significant relationship was revealed between alimentary characteristics of the Minsk population and occurrence of ischemic heart disease in the examinees.