Correlation of Repeat Cooking Oil Use to Increasing Cholesterol Levels in Community, Gandong Village, Bandung District, Tulungagung Regency In 2021

Abstract

Background: The use of recurrent cooking oil is very difficult to separate from people's lives, because food that is processed fried is much favored by the community. And if you use cooking oil repeatedly continuously can cause cholesterol levels to increase. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the use of recurrent cooking oil to increase cholesterol levels in the community in Gandong Village, Bandung District, Tulungagung Regency in 2021.

Methods: This study uses an analytical research design with a cross sectional approach. The population is housewives in RT 02 and RT 03 / RW 02 in Gandong Village, Bandung District, Tulungagung Regency, in 2021 as many as 55 families using simple random sampling technique and obtained a sample of 35 respondents. Data was collected by observing the use of cooking oil and checking cholesterol levels and then processed by editing, coding, scoring, and tabulating, and using Pearson test with an error rate (α) of 0.05.

Results: The results of the study showed that 25 respondents (71.4%) used recurrent cooking oil. While respondents who had high cholesterol levels were 23 respondents (65.7%). There is a relationship between the use of recurrent cooking oil to increase cholesterol levels in the community in Gandong Village, Bandung District, Tulungagung Regency in 2021 with a value of ρ 0,000.

Conclusions:  Repeated cooking oil contains saturated fatty acids and free radicals which can increase cholesterol levels which can eventually cause constriction of blood vessels. For this reason, it is necessary to conduct health education or counseling on the dangers of using recurrent cooking oil.