Affiliations: [a] Department of Food, Metabolism, Clinical Nutrition, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
| [b] T.C. Ministry of Health, Ankara Education and Research Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Ankara, Turkey
| [c] Department of Medical Biochemistry, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
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Corresponding author: Semanur Şahin, Department of Food, Metabolism, Clinical Nutrition, Ankara University
School of Medicine, Morphology Campus 06100, Sıhhiye, Ankara, Turkey.
E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to determine the effect of nutrition style and breastfeeding on the formation of gallstone in women. METHODS:50 women age from 40 to 69 included in the study. A questionnaire in which the participant’s general information questioned, their anthropometric values recorded, and the Mediterranean diet (MD) adherence scale included, was filled in by the face-to-face interview method. RESULTS:Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), fasting blood glucose (FBG), and serum C-reactive protein (CRP) values were higher in those with gallstones than in the control group. The total breastfeeding time and MD adherence scores were higher in the control group. It determined that there was a negative relationship between breastfeeding time with DBP and CRP. It found that an increase in BMI and WC increases the probability of gallstones. It found that an increase in the duration of breastfeeding and MD adherence score decreases the probability of the gallstones. CONCLUSION:Breastfeeding and Mediterranean diet reduce the risk of gallstones in women.
Keywords: Body weight, breastfeeding, C-reactive protein, gallstone, mediterranean diet
