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Aim: The Mediterranean diet is defined as an effective nutritional strategy to prevent and control non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases. The aim of this study is to investigate the adherence to the Mediterranean diet of patients with coronary artery disease.
Method: The study was included 116 participants with coronary artery disease and it was a descriptive and cross-sectional type. The Mediterranean Diet Scale was used to investigate patients' adherence to the Mediterranean Diet. Descriptive statistics and the Pearson chi-square test to determine the relationship between s and two categorical variables were used in statistical analyses. One-Way Anova test was used to determine the relationship between three or more variables, and Levene's test was used for homogeneity of variances. Post-hoc analysis was done with Tukey HSD test.
Results: The mean age of the participants was 60.64±11.21 years. The rate of those who are overweight or obese is 80.9%. It was determined that the majority of the participants did not consume cigarettes and alcohol. According to the Mediterranean Diet Scale classification, 11.2% of the participants scored high and 56.03% scored low. According to the Mediterranean Diet Scale classification of the participants, no significant difference was found between gender, age, body mass index, waist circumference and educational status, and scale scores.
Conclusion: In this study, it was determined that adherence to the Mediterranean diet was generally low, and at the same time, the majority of the participants were overweight and obese.