[Nutrition and the incidence of ischemic heart disease].

The analysis of the correlation between diet and coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence in 40-59 year-old men from one of the Moscow districts has demonstrated dietary differences between subjects with and without CHD. Food and calories consumption reduces with age, however this is accompanied by an obvious increase in body weight and CHD incidence. Besides energy disturbance, consumption of essential polyunsaturated fatty acids also reduces with age. Patients with CHD show energy disturbance and lower, as compared to persons without CHD, consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids.