Cardiovascular disease risk in blood lipid and dietary intake among female adult in east coast of Peninsular Malaysia

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.