Study of nutrition and behavior intervention on obese patients

Objective To explore and evaluate the effect of nutrition and behavior intervention on obese patients.Methods One hundred obese male patients were randomly selected in the Central Hospital of Songjiang District of Shanghai.Body weight,height,waist-hip circumference,and blood pressure of the patients were measured,and body mass index(BMI) and waist-hip ratio were calculated.Blood samples were collected,and serum triglyceride(TG),total cholesterol(TC),high-density lipoprotein cholesterol(HDL-C),low-density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL-C),fasting plasma glucose(FPG) and serum uric acid(UA) were measured before intervention.Fifty of the 100patients were randomly selected as the intervention group,which were given face-to-face instructions on correcting the unhealthy behaviors,the eating habits as nutrition and behavior intervention therapy.Symptomatic treatment was also applied.The other 50 patients(the control group) were treated based on symptoms only.Body condition and blood biochemical parameters were measured again after one year of follow-up.Results BMI(P0.001),TG(P0.001),TC(P=0.0360.05),LDL-C(P=0.0010.05),FPG(P=0.0060.05) and UA(P0.001) were significantly lower after intervention in the intervention group,while no significant difference was found in the indexes after intervention in the control group(P0.05).There were statistically significant differences in diastolic blood pressure(P=0.020.05),TC(P0.001),TG(P0.001),HDL-C(P0.001),LDL-C(P0.001),FPG(P0.001) between the two groups after intervention.Conclusion Nutrition and behavior intervention can effectively decrease BMI,serum lipid,the glucose,blood pressure,and serum uric acid of obese patients.