Abstract:
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the risk of cardiovascular disease
among healthy female adult in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. A total of 120
respondents were participated in this study involving 60 Malay respondents and 60 Non
Malay (30 Chinese and 30 Indian). Based on the Kruskal-Wallis analysis, result showed
a significant difference in blood cholesterol Chinese and Indian group (p = 0.005) and
also significant difference for blood cholesterol between Malay and Chinese, Malay and
Indian, Chinese and Indian (p=0.08). It was found that total cholesterol for Malay was
4.29 (0.36) mmol/L, Chinese 4.15 (0.39) mmol/L and Indian 4.34 (0.23) mmol/L. For
cardiovascular disease risk estimation outcomes, a significant different between CVD risk
for Chinese group and CVD risk for Indian group was observed. However, there were no
significant difference between triglyceride for Malay and Non-Malay by using Mann
Whitney U Test, triglyceride for Chinese and Indian, cholesterol for Malay and Non
Malay and CVD for Malay and Non-Malay by Kruskal-Wallis analysis. There was a
strong and positive correlation between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease (r = 0.803,
p = 0.00). No relationship between dietary intake and level of the blood lipid in this
research has been observed.
