Abstract
Objective: Assess food consumption and associate it with the clinical diagnosis and risk factors of patients with heart disease. Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional and inferential study, developed with 32 adult and elderly individuals, aged 23 to 88 years, in a public hospital in Belém do Pará. A questionnaire was applied on risk factors related to cardiovascular diseases and another of food frequency. of type MEDFICTS. Results: There was a predominance of males (84.38%) and age between 49 and 61 years (37.50%). Congestive heart failure (CHF) associated with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) was most frequently diagnosed. It was observed that the main risk factors were: smoking, alcohol consumption, high consumption of red meat, low consumption of fruits and stress before diagnosis. Approximately 37.5% of patients needed to make some dietary change, and this change was associated with the diagnosis of AMI / CHF (91.46) and atherosclerosis (84.46). The high consumption of red meat also prevailed in patients diagnosed with CHF-AMI (89.47). Conclusion: A considerable percentage of inadequate food consumption was identified among the participants, such intake being associated with the diagnosis of AMI, CHF and atherosclerosis, as well as the prevalence of a high consumption of red meat in patients diagnosed with CHF-AMI.