Parkinson Institute, Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento, Milan, Italy.
Nutrition. 2013 Feb;29(2):470-3. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2012.09.017.
Dietary treatment is important for the management of Parkinson's disease (PD). Our objective was to describe the dietary habits and assess the nutritional status of Ghanaian patients with PD. This study is part of a larger project, for which Ghana has been selected as a pilot country.
Fifty-five Ghanaian patients with PD and 12 healthy Ghanaian controls were recruited. We assessed nutritional status, investigated dietary habits, and assessed the prevalence of the nutritional complications of PD (e.g., constipation and dysphagia).
The mean daily caloric intake was about 1200 kcal/d in patients with PD and in controls. The typical diet was based on semisolid foods, usually vegetable soups accompanied by cereal flour or root starch or sometimes chicken or fish. The intake of milk and its derivatives was low. The prevalences of constipation and dysphagia in patients with PD were 49% and 21%, respectively.
This study has yielded information that could be useful for the study of the management of PD and for the assessment of response to therapy.
饮食治疗对于帕金森病（PD）的管理很重要。我们的目的是描述加纳 PD 患者的饮食习惯并评估其营养状况。这项研究是一个更大项目的一部分，加纳已被选为试点国家。
招募了 55 名加纳 PD 患者和 12 名健康加纳对照者。我们评估了营养状况，调查了饮食习惯，并评估了 PD 的营养并发症（如便秘和吞咽困难）的患病率。
PD 患者和对照组的平均每日热量摄入量约为 1200 千卡/天。典型的饮食以半固体食物为基础，通常是蔬菜汤，配以谷物粉或根茎淀粉，有时还有鸡肉或鱼类。牛奶及其制品的摄入量较低。PD 患者便秘和吞咽困难的患病率分别为 49%和 21%。
这项研究提供了可能有助于 PD 管理研究和评估治疗反应的信息。
