Feeding Education in Patients Submitted to Coronary Angioplasty

Feeding Education in Patients Submitted to Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty: Randomized Clinical Trial

The simple knowledge that practices healthy lifestyle are important to reduce or prevent the progression of cardiovascular diseases it is not enough for effective changes accordingly. To nutritional education be successful, needs to promote changes in eating habits and not just transmit information. This is a behavioral intervention study in 200 consecutive patients submitted to percutaneous transluminary coronary angioplasty. The participants were randomized in two groups: intervention and control.

The intervention was a dialogic nutritional counseling and the control arm was a traditional nutritional counseling.

All participants will undergo long-term follow-up for cardiovascular events.

Patients were hospitalized to realize elective coronary angioplasty in a especialized hospital in cardiovascular disease.

All data were obtained by a trained nutritionist.

Inclusion Criteria:

• preserved cognitive status

Exclusion Criteria:

• no availability to attend the meetings of nutritional guidance