Description of Vegetables and Fruits Consumption Patterns and Blood Sugar Level In Type 2 Diabetes Patients at Public Health Center I West Denpasar

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin performance or both. Every year people with diabetes have increased. Vegetable and fruit  consumption patterns are related to blood glucose levels in people with diabetes mellitus. This study aims to describe the pattern of consumption of vegetables and fruit in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus at Public Health Center I West Denpasar. This type of research is observational research with a cross-sectional design and consecutive techniques. The number of samples studied were 31 samples. From the research conducted, samples with the category of consuming less vegetables had uncontrolled blood sugar levels of 68.18%. Samples with a variety of vegetable consumption categories had uncontrolled blood sugar levels of 77.78%. The samples with the category of the frequency of consuming vegetables is not good has uncontrolled blood sugar levels of 70.59%. Samples with the consumption category of less fruit have uncontrolled blood sugar levels of 70.83%. Samples with consumption categories of types of fruit that did not vary had uncontrolled blood sugar levels of 72%. Samples with the category of fruit consumption frequency are not good have uncontrolled blood sugar levels of 67.86%. It is recommended to increase the consumption of vegetables and fruits that contain high fiber.