Differences in Nutrition Food Intake and Body Mass Index between Smoker and Non-smoker in Adult
Journal Title: Indonesian Journal of Clinical Pharmacy - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 3
Abstract
Smoking is one of the greatest threats to public health in the world, and smokers tend to have a lower body mass index (BMI) and the decline in nutritional status that can increase the risk of malnutrition which worsen the health condition of smokers compared to non‑smokers. The purpose of this study was to determine differences in nutrition‑related food calories per day and body mass index (BMI) between active smokers and non‑smokers. This study used cross‑sectional with a collection of respondents using purposive sampling. The variables measured in this study includes nutritional intake of food with a 24‑ hour recall method and IMT. Samples were active smokers and non‑smokers adulthood in Surabaya from November 2015 until January 2016. Results of research on the use of 110 respondents consisting of 55 active smokers and 55 non‑smokers, with a distribution of data for age and sex homogeneous between the two groups. The test results show that the difference there were no differences between the nutritional intake of active smokers and non-smokers with Sig. 0.972 (p>0.05), and there is no difference between BMI active smokers and non-smokers for nutrients intake by the Sig. 0.745 (p>0.05). It was therefore concluded that there is no nutritional intake and BMI between active smokers and non‑smokers.
Authors and Affiliations
Rivan V. Suryadinata, Amelia Lorensia, Rika K. Sari
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- EP ID EP370065
- DOI 10.15416/ijcp.2017.6.3.171
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