[Role of the alimentary factor in the genesis and recurrences of peptic ulcer].

Dietetic history data covering 500 persons with duodenal ulcer, 200 of whom aged from 16 to 25 and 300--from 26 to 55 years, and recorded in a questionnaire of a medico-information chart were subjected to a detailed analysis with reference to a complex set of factors characterizing the pattern and qualitative peculiarities of the nutrition. Most of the examined (predominantly the young) demonstrated disordered pattern and quality of nourishment and imbalance of food rations. Of greatest frequency were perturbations in the alimentation rhythm (in 76% of the youths and 81% of mature adults), abuse of carbohydrates, largely of easily assimilable ones (in 71 and 59% of the patients, respectively), excessive consumption of animal fats (in 64 and 41.5%), with insufficient intake of vegetable oils (in 82 and 69%), as well as insufficient consumption of raw vegetables and fruits (in 58 and 63%).