Effects of Traditional Way of Fish Consumption in Sri Lanka on Cardiovascular Risk Profiles
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/ijphrd.v13i3.18171Keywords:
Fish consumption, Lipid profiles, Lipoproteins, omega3 fatty acid, cardiovascular disease.Abstract
The influence of type of fish consumption on cardiovascular risk profiles was studied in Sri Lankan community. A
challenge experiment was set up to do a research on the influence of omega-3 fatty acid content in fish on cardiovascular
risk profiles of healthy people. Hundred healthy undergraduates (subjects) who were between the ages of 23 to 30 years
and full time resident in the hostels in Sri Lanka, were randomly selected for this study. The students were fed with fish
curry and fried fish for the amount of 80.41±9.43 g of fish curry or 62.50 ± 11.04 g of fried fish for five days per week. Initial
and after 24 weeks and after one year the lipid profiles of the subjects [total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride(TG), low density
lipoprotein (LDL-C), high density lipoprotein (HDL-C),and very low density lipoprotein (VLDL-C)] were estimated in
serum samples collected at commencement and end of the experiment, using automatic biochemical analyzer and the
turbidometric method respectively. The fish consumption showed direct effect on the cardio vascular risk profiles by
decreasing LDL-C and increasing HDL-C and decreasing LDL: HDL ratio and TC: HDL ratio and revealed the decrease
of TG in serum.
