| dc.description.abstract | Hypertension is one of the diseases that cause high morbidity. The data in UPT
Jember Elderly Social Services in 2010 showed that hypertension is in the second
rank of three largest disease in the Social Services Unit of Elderly Jember. The
purpose of this study is to analyze the correlation between food consumption with the
incidence of hypertension in the elderly in social services elderly UPT Jember. This
study uses cross-sectional approach of studying the correlation between the effects of
factors risk through approach, observation or the collection of data at once at a
time, making the subject of research only on observation only once. At the variable
level of consumption, there are 3 (three) variables significantly related with
incidence of hypertension is variable fat (p = 0.010), sodium (p = 0.004), fiber (p =
0.000), whereas carbohydrate variables are not significantly related (p values
(0.599) > α(0.05)) with the incidence of hypertension in the elderly. Hypertension
prevention diet was significantly related with incidence of hypertension among
tomatoes, mustard greens, spinach, broccoli, mango, watermelon, pineapple, fresh
water fish, tuna, chicken without skin, egg whites, sunflower seeds. In addition, the
pattern of food triggers include hypertension mutton, beef or chicken skin, chips, beef
jerky, shredded, salted fish, salted eggs, flour and milk and butter. The advice can be
given to Social Services Unit of Elderly Jember should separate menus for the
elderly who have certain diseases, and applying diit low salt and high in fiber to
achieve near-normal blood pressure to avoid more severe complications. Especially
patients with hypertension that aims to reduce the incidence of hypertension in the
elderly in the Social Services Unit of Elderly Jember. For further research can make
this study as a reference. However, further research is expected to be split between
the intake of saturated and unsaturated fats as well as the type of salt consumed. In
addition, the study attempted to enlarge the sample results are more accurate. | en_US |
