Objectives: To describe the diet pattern and physical activities among diabetes type 2 patients treated at Agriculture General Hospital. Subjects and methods: A cross-sectional study with convenient sampling method was conducted on 602 patients. | Journal of military pharmaco-medicine no7-2017 DIET PATTERN AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG TYPE 2 DIABETES PATIENTS BEFORE INTERVENTION Tong Le Van*; Hoang Hai ** SUMMARY Objectives: To describe the diet pattern and physical activities among diabetes type 2 patients treated at Agriculture General Hospital. Subjects and methods: A cross-sectional study with convenient sampling method was conducted on 602 patients. Results: Most of the participants reported that they had 3 meals per day () and no snacks (). The most common diet was more vegetables pattern (), followed by normal diet () and the least common was fatty diet, sweet preference and vegetarian diet. Most of the patients reported that they used fatty foods as vegetable oil/seed oil (), starchy foods as rice, pasta, noodle () and high protein foods as beans and products from bean (). Most of the patients had 1 bowl of vegetable each meal () and no soft drink (). In terms of physical activities, of patients reported walking, tai chi; only did not do exercise due to lack of time or having disease such as heart disease, paralysis, footsore. On average, patients spent minutes per day for exercise while sedentary time was minutes per day. Conclusion: Practice of diet and physical activities among type 2 diabetes patients at Agriculture General Hospital before intervention were quite good; however, it is necessary to split meals in order to control blood glucose better. * Keywords: Type 2 diabetes; Diet; Physical activity. INTRODUCTION Type 2 diabetes is a global health problem, posing a major challenge to health management in the 21th century [3]. Diabetes patients are 2 - 5 times more likely to develop cardiovascular disease and 2 - 5 times dying from complications than healthy people. Diabetes is one of important causes of adult blind, non-injury amputation and advanced kidney disease that leading to kidney transplant and dialysis [4]. There were
