Ratu Ayu Dewi Sartika

University of Indonesia | UI · Department of Nutrition

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension and obesity have become major health challenges worldwide, including in Indonesia. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors of central obesity among hypertensive patients at Kemiri Muka Community Health Center in Depok, West Java. A cross-sectional design was employed. The s...

Background: There was an increase in the incidence of abdominal obesity among women of childbearing age in Indonesia. Impact on reproductive health such as sub infertility, irregular menstruation, and PCOS. Abdominal obesity also causes problems during pregnancy. Objective: This study aimed to analyze the association of demographics and patterns of...

Background: The exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) rate in Indonesia is lower than expected. Among the key factors affecting breastfeeding practices, paternal support has been suggested.Purpose: To explore the role of paternal support in EBF failure among 3-month-old infants.Methods: This sequential mixed-methods study, part of an ongoing cohort study i...

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a major complication of diabetes mellitus, significantly impacting patients' quality of life (QoL) due to the heightened risk of infection and amputation. Pharmacists play a crucial role in managing diabetes and its complications, and assessing QoL can be a valuable tool for monitoring treatment success and medicatio...

Breast milk is the main source of nutrients in infants under six months of age. The causes of low exclusive breastfeeding coverage vary from region to region. Lack of husband’s support is one of the factors contributing to exclusive breastfeeding failure. This study aimed to determine the determinants of exclusive breastfeeding failure, designed as...

The Indonesian government has provided iron–folic acid (IFA) supplementation in response to maternal pregnancy iron-deficiency anemia. However, community-based cohorts on IFA’s effects on maternal and infant anemia are limited. A mixed-method study design with a primary longitudinal cohort was used to observe the association between IFA and anemia...

Stunting is influenced by family and household factors that affect toddler nutrition. As the primary provider of both physical and psychological resources to prevent health problems, the family has a significant role in preventing stunting. Family resilience in supporting child health is mediated by family functioning. A qualitative descriptive stu...

Background: Hypoglycemia is an acute episode that can lead to death in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). This condition is preventable with patient education, and identifying factors influencing their occurrence is essential to creating effective and efficient education. It also leads to prevention and control by re-organizing the service syst...

Introduction: Indonesia is one of the countries with a high TB-HIV prevalence. Antiretroviral treatment (ART) is only being administered to approximately 42% of TB-HIV patients. The low utilization of ART can be attributed, in part, to the delayed initiation of treatment. Nonetheless, starting ART in these people at an early stage poses risks, owin...

Purpose: We aimed to investigate the association of birth weight with the risk of diabetes mellitus in adolescence and early adulthood in the Indonesian population. Methods: This study analyzed data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey, a longitudinal study of the Indonesian population with repeated measurements at 3 time points (1997, 2007, a...

Community activity restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia impact the quantity and quality of health services for type 2 diabetes (T2DM). This limitation could increase the risk of hypoglycemia in type 2 diabetes patients. The study aimed to compare the incidence rate of hypoglycemia between national (NHIP) and non-national health in...

Diabetes, a leading cause of 6.7 million deaths in 2021, poses a significant challenge despite existing interventions. Non-adherence to treatment remains a barrier to diabetes management. However, a comprehensive instrument to assess medication adherence determinants in diabetes patients’ population in Indonesia with low-medium literacy levels and...

Diabetes is a global problem that is increasingly higher from year to year. Diabetes-specific instruments so far can be well received by patients to evaluate specific aspects of their diabetic disease. This instrument is believed to be one of the best methods to evaluate certain characteristics in diabetic diseases. The purpose of the research is t...

Background: Obese and overweight adolescents have a high risk of COVID-19 susceptibility and severity compared to normal nutritional status. Although a healthy dietary pattern and physical activity do not entirely prevent infection, they play a substantial role in the host's response to infectious agents. The purpose of this study is to analyze the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted adolescents' unhealthy eating habits and sedentary lifestyles, leading to an increase in blood pressure and obesity rate. High blood pressure among adolescents is an early indicator of adult hypertension, but this condition has received less attention recently. Therefore, this study aimed to determin...

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, stunting is estimated to increase 2.4 times higher (It seems that some information is missing here because the usage of the word 'higher' hints at a comparison with some other statistic. Or please consider making the following changes in the statement: "…stunting is estimated to be 2.4 times higher than th...

Diare merupakan penyebab kematian kedua tertinggi pada balita di dunia. Setiap tahunnya setidaknya 1,7 juta kasus diare pada anak terjadi. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor yang berhubungan dengan kejadian diare pada balita di wilayah Indonesia Tengah. Penelitian ini menggunakan data Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) 5 tahun...

Background: The role of pharmacists in middle-income countries such as Indonesia is still not optimal. In this study, we developed a program called "Phardiacare," a specific pharmacist-led program for Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of the application of the "Phardia...

Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) is an indicator of composite nutritional status assessment (WAZ, HAZ, and WHZ) to describe toddler's nutritional problems. In 2020, malnutrition, unemployment, and poverty in Banten Province were high, the population's income tends to be low. Karangkamulyan is an underdeveloped village with mining ar...

Pendahuluan, Intervensi stunting belum menyentuh determinan mendasar yaitu sistem pangan yang dimulai dari pembentukan pola ketersediaan pangan pada tingkat nasional. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mencari pola ketersediaan pangan dan gizi makro yang menentukan prevalensi stunting di 23 negara Asia dalam 3 kawasan. Metode, Desain penelitian studi e...

Indonesia termasuk salah satu negara dengan “tiga beban malnutrisi”, sebelum adanya pandemi COVID-19. Tujuh juta anak di Indonesia mengalami stunting. Sebagian dari total ibu hamil mengalami anemia. Stunting dapat terjadi akibat pola asuh balita yang tidak sesuai dan pola makan balita yang tidak seimbang. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui pola as...

This study aims to discover the prevalence of stunting and determine the associations between the history of pulmonary tuberculosis disease with the prevalence of stunting among children under five years of age (6-59 months) in Babakan Madang Sub-District, Bogor District 2019. This study uses a cross-sectional design with a quantitative approach. T...

With a high prevalence of hypertension (25.8% in 2013 and 34.1% in 2018), Indonesia currently deals with a tremendous health economic burden with the implementation of National Health Insurance (JKN). Hypertension is known to lead to severe complications and productivity loss. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of health and nutrition educatio...

Background: The researchers developed structured counselling for Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients, comprised of an introduction to T2DM and how to manage it and its complications. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate structured counselling on its ability to improve glycemic control and the clinical outcomes of T2DM outpatients. Methods: A quas...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that is both infectious and deadly. Although it can be prevented and treated, the increasing number of TB patients is a nation-wide and global challenge, and thus it requires efforts to control the disease appropriately leading to good treatment outcomes. Identifying the determinants of treatment outcomes is necessary...

The broad availability of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in the Indonesian market, increasing trend of their consumption, combined with escalating incidence and prevalence of diabetes and related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and the ongoing debate on policies, have called for a comprehensive review as described in this study. Data was compile...

Menurut World Health Organization (WHO) tahun 2018, 24% dari populasi dunia terinfeksi kecacingan. Di Indonesia, kecacingan masih menjadi masalah kesehatan masyarakat dengan prevalensi kecacingan pada siswa sebesar 60-80%. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor yang berhubungan dengan kejadian kecacingan pada siswa SD terpilih di K...

BACKGROUND: Children’s cognitive abilities are influenced by the nutritional condition of children in early childhood. Catch-up growth in early childhood affects cognitive abilities at school age. AIM: This study aims to analyze the effect of catch-up growth in early childhood on the cognitive abilities of school-aged children in Indonesia. METHODS...

Tuberculosis (TB) friendly area will reduce society's stigmatization and increase adherence to treatment for TB patients. The encouragement of the surrounding environment can motivate patients to recover, and it can realize the goals of the SDGs and the Indonesian government to eliminate TB. The government's commitment is needed to build governance...

Penyakit diare adalah penyakit endemis yang mempunyai potensi untuk menciptakan kejadian luar biasa (KLB) dalam suatu negara termasuk di Indonesia. Di kabupaten Lebak ditemukan kasus diare tertinggi di Provinsi Banten, dengan angka tertinggi pada kelompok usia anak sekolah. Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara kejadian diare terhad...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that is both infectious and deadly. Although it can be prevented and treated, the increasing number of TB patients is a nation-wide and global challenge, and thus it requires efforts to control the disease appropriately leading to good treatment outcomes. Identifying the determinants of treatment outcomes is necessary...

Background and aims Reproductive-aged women are prone to type 2 diabetes mellitus. This study aims to evaluate the optimal cut off point of Triglyceride/Glucose Index for predicting glucose status conversion among women of reproductive age. Methods This study involved normoglycemic and prediabetes women aged 20–49 years from the Bogor Non-Communic...

ABSTRAK Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) merupakan pandemi global yang telah menginfeksi berbagai negara di dunia, termasuk Indonesia. Pembatasan pada kegiatan di luar rumah termasuk penutupan sekolah dalam menekan penularan COVID-19 berdampak pada perubahan aktifitas fisik dan perilaku makan dalam arah yang membahayakan kesehatan dan menimbulkan...

Objectives: This study examined stunting at birth and its associations with physical factors of parents and children in Indonesia. Methods: This study analyzed secondary data from the national cross-sectional Indonesian Basic Health Survey 2018, conducted across 34 provinces and 514 districts/cities. Birth length data were available for 756 newb...

Underweight has the biggest risk against burden of disease. The aim of the study was to determine the factors related with underweight in child aged 24-59 months lived in North Sumatra based on three characteristics caused an underweight; there are child characteristics, maternal characteristics, and parenting characteristics. This study used cross...

A good health status, cognitive development, and productivity cannot be achieved without good nutrition. Nutritional status and its fulfilment of two years old children will be shaping the health status in the next age period. Unfortunately, nutritional problems like underweight is still a significant health problem in Indonesia, especially Special...

Latar belakang: Diare masih menjadi masalah kesehatan di Indonesia khususnya di Kecamatan Moyo Utara Kabupaten Sumbawa. Besarnya masalah terlihat dari tingginya angka kesakitan dan kematian akibat diare. Diare pada balita dapat berkontribusi pada beban penyakit akut (UNICEF, 2019). Berdasarkan data Profil Kesehatan Daerah NTB Tahun 2018, prevalensi...

Hypertensive patients usually have shorter sleep duration compared to the healthy population. Short sleep duration in hypertensive patients increases the risk of hypertension co-morbidity incidence and is caused by dietary intake, stress or other lifestyle factors. This study aimed to determine the relationship between stress and other factors rela...

The prevalence of central obesity has been increasing rapidly in recent decades. Central obesity, measured by waist circumference, is the most dangerous type of obesity since it is closely related to chronic diseases, metabolic complications, and high COVID-19 infection rates. The objective of this study was to identify the dominant factor of centr...

Objective: In Indonesia, the role of pharmacists in primary healthcare is still very limited or even absent. This study evaluates the effectiveness of programs delivered for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients by pharmacists in primary healthcare through counseling, short message service (SMS) reminders, and medication booklets. Methods: A...

ABSTRAK Agenda penanggulangan HIV/AIDS menjadi salah satu masalah yang paling tidak terselesaikan di dunia. Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa memberikan perhatian khusus terhadap program tersebut dan memasukkannya sebagai salah satu agenda Tujuan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan (SDGs). Indonesia sebagai salah satu negara anggota Persatuan Bangsa-bangsa mengelua...

ABSTRAK Latar Belakang : High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL) adalah bagian dari profil lipid yang dianjurkan berada pada level diatas 40 mg/dl. HDL rendah menjadi salah satu kriteria sindrom metabolik. Rendahnya HDL dalam darah akan menyebabkan terjadinya aterosklerosis dan berdampak pada peningkatan risiko penyakit cardiovaskular. Beberapa penelitian m...

INTRODUCTION: Underweight is one of the most common forms of undernutrition suffered by children and has implications for both short and long term health problems. Characteristics of children, parents, and environment are factors affecting underweight in children, especially aged 24–59 months. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to find out the dominant f...

Hypercholesterolemia is the leading predictor of various cardiovascular disease (CVD) which is the leading cause of death in the world. This study aims to determine whether there are a ny differences the incidence of hypercholesterolemia based on factors related to it in people with diabetes mellitus at Pasar Minggu Primary Health Care in 2018. Thi...

Associations of Dietary Diversity and Other Factors with Prevalence of Stunting among Children Aged 6-35 Months Kelvin Halim1, Ratu Ayu Dewi Sartika2, Trini Sudiarti2, Primasti Nuryandari Putri2, Nurul Dina Rahmawati2 1Undergraduate Student of Public Health Nutrition Department, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, West Java, Indonesia 2Depatment of Publi...

Background: Abnormalities of the heart and blood vessels marked by an increase in blood pressure are known as hypertension. Worldwide, high blood pressure is estimated to affect more than one in three adults aged 25 years and over, or about one billion people. Overall, high-income countries have a lower prevalence of hypertension (35% of adults) th...

Triglycerides is a compound consisting of three molecule fatty acid, synthesized from carbohydrates and deposited as animal fats in the body. Finding suggests that elevated levels of triglyceride were one of the risks of cardiovascular disease. Hypertriglyceridemia can lead to increased LDL cholesterol and lower HDL cholesterol, which became an ind...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengevaluasi pengaruh penyesuaian obat diabetes pada saat puasa Ramadan berdasarkan rekomendasi dari International Diabetes Federation-Diabetes and Ramadan International Alliance (IDF-DAR) terhadap nilai HbA1c pasien diabetes melitus (DM) tipe-2. Penelitian dilakukan di salah satu rumah sakit di Jakarta, Indonesia den...

Stunting is a category of malnutrition that can cause death for children. In 2018, 30.8% of children under five in Indonesia experienced stunting. This study aimed to determine the factors that are related to stunting in Babakan Madang sub district, West Java, Indonesia. A cross sectional study was carried out among 612 children aged 6–59 months on...

Kadar kolesterol total merupakan salah satu indikator terbaik untuk memprediksi risiko penyakit jantung pada seseorang. Untuk itu, perlu memastikan agar kadar kolesterol total selalu pada ambang batas yang disarankan. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui determinan yang dominan berhubungan dengan kadar kolesterol total berdasarkan data Riskesd...

Kolesterol merupakan faktor utama terjadinya aterosklerosis. Hiperkolesterolemia dapat meningkatkan risiko berkembangnya penyakit jantung koroner, infark miokardium, trombosis otak, iskemia, dan penyakit serius lainnya dan bahkan kematian. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui faktor dominan yang berpengaruh terhadap kejadian hiperkole...

Diare merupakan penyebab kematian nomor dua pada Balita di dunia. Karena itu, penting untuk mengetahui faktor risiko kejadian diare pada Balita. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui faktor risiko kejadian diare pada Balita usia 6-59 bulan di Pulau Sumatera. Penelitian ini menggunakan data sekunder Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS)...

Introduction: Stunting has become one of the world's most discussed health topics. Dietary diversity takes on an important role in increasing the nutrition fulfilment of young children aged 6-59 months for their optimal growth. This study aims to understand the association between dietary diversity and stunting in children aged 6-59 months old in B...

The underweight still remains a public health problem for toddlers in Indonesia. The purpose of the study to identify the factors related to the underweight incident for toddlers at 24-59 months in urban and rural areas of Indonesia. This research used cross-sectional study design. This study used secondary data on the Total Diet Study-Individual F...

Background: Hypertension is influenced by various factors including genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors. Objectives: We aimed to identify factors associated with hypertension among adults in West Java, Indonesia. Material and Method: The study design was a cross-sectional approach using secondary data from the ‘Cohort Study of Non-Communic...

Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a leading cause of death worldwide. In 2018, NCDs’ prevalence had reportedly increased since 2013. Hypertension was the biggest cause of NCDs diagnosed in health facilities, from 25.8% to 34.1%. Patients with hypertension and obesity are at increased risk of complications from diabetes mellitus and k...

This critical review is intended to analyse the existing studies on the consumption patterns of sweetened condensed milk in the diet of young Indonesian children and its potential nutritional health consequences. Considering its limited nutritional value and high sugar content, sweetened condensed milk (SCM) should not be administered to young chil...

The weight gain in infant is very rapid, but the rate of weight gain is geng less. When 5 months, infant having weight twice the birth weight, while at 1 year the weight reaches three mes of the birth weight. The purpose of this study was to determined the relaonship between birth weight and factors influencing weight gain at the age of 12 months i...

Pertambahan berat badan bayi sangatlah pesat, namun laju pertambahan berat badan makin lama makin berkurang. Pada umur 5 bulan, berat badan bayi menjadi dua kali berat lahir, sedangkan pada umur 1 tahun beratnya mencapai tiga kali berat lahir, dan pada umur 2 tahun berat badannya menjadi empat kali berat lahir. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk menget...

Latar belakang: Tingkat kepatuhan diet di Indonesia rata-rata masih rendah. Diet dalam menjaga makanan seringkali menjadi kendala karena masih tergoda dengan segala makanan yang dapat memperburuk kesehatan. Metode: Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor yang berhubungan dengan kepatuhan diet pada penderita diabetes melitus...

Objective: The prevalence of obesity in individuals with diabetes mellitus (DM) is fairly high. It has been shown that obesity worsens insulin resistance and can elevate the risk for complications of diabetes. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the prevalence of obesity and to determine the factors that affect obesity in adults with DM. Methods:...

High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL) is high lipoprotein, particularly protein. It produced in the liver and small intestine. HDL subtracts cholesterol and phospholipid in blood and transfer into other lipoproteins for transporting back or out from the body. NCEP ATP III conducted low HDL with <40 mg/dl. As one of the criteria metabolic syndrome (MS), it...

Calcium is one of important mineral for female student to obtain the peak bone mass.This study aims to find out how the amount and adequacy of calcium intake, and the contribution of dairy products to calcium intake among female student. This study used a cross-sectional study design. A total 58 third and fourth level nutrition student were selecte...

Obesity is one of the comorbidities widely occurred among type 2 diabetes patients. It is one of the most modifiable risk factors for the prevention of other comorbid conditions such as diabetic nephropathy and cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to recognize eating behaviour, physical activity, and other related factors, also their c...

Hypertension and hypercholesterolemia are the causes of coronary heart disease (CHD) so that the presence of hypercholesterolemia in patients with hypertension will increase the risk of CHD. Central obesity describes the accumulation of fat in the stomach which can lead to abnormalities in the amount of lipids in the blood, when it occurs in patien...

Background and Objective: Waist circumference is an alternative determination of nutritional status (central obesity) and is an early detector of chronic diseases. This study was conducted to determine whether changes in waist circumference could detect central obesity from the pre-elderly stage to the elderly stage in individuals in Indonesia. Mat...

Background and Objective: Anemia associated with nutritional deficiency in adolescents is a public health problem that continues to be a concern in developing countries, including Indonesia. The rate of adolescent anemia is increasing and can lower productivity. This study aimed to determine whether differences in expenditures for iron-rich food an...

Patients with diabetes have an increased risk of high blood pressure than individuals with normal blood sugar levels. Diabetes and hypertension are comorbid conditions that can lead to complications and can be associated with lower quality of life. This study aimed to determine the differences in occurrence of hypertension based on sociodemographic...

Successful aging is a universal goal, but it is a challenge owing to declining physical, psychological, and social conditions that occur with increasing age. The aim of this study was to analyze risk factors and changes in successful aging among older individuals (≥ 60) in Indonesia. This longitudinal study (2000 to 2014) used data from the Indones...

Dewasa ini makin banyak orang yang secara sadar telah mengalihkan kebiasaan makannya dari makanan utama yang terdiri dari daging menjadi makanan tanpa daging yang terdiri dari berbagai jenis sayur-mayur, kacang-kacangan, biji-bijian, padi-padian dan buah-buahan yang tidak mengandung vitamin B12. Vitamin B12 tidak diserap dikolon, karena itu pada ve...

Nutritional status changes, diet, and lifestyle are risk factors adolescent’s hypertension. This study isa cross sectional research to determine the most dominant factor of hypertension among adolescentsat SMA Sejahtera 1 Depok 2017. Collected data include blood pressure, nutritional status (BMI forage), intake nutrients (sodium, potassium, calcium...

Exclusive breastfeeding intention is a mother’s intention to provide her baby only breast milk since the infant was born until at the age of 6 months. Intention in prenatal period is the direct affirmation of exclusive breastfeeding. This study aimed to find out the most dominant factor related to exclusive breastfeeding intention among pregnant wo...

Objective: In Indonesia, pregnant women are recommended to take a minimum of 90 tablets of iron/folic acid (IFA), to prevent iron deficiency anemia. Our analysis aimed at examining the extent to which improved knowledge on IFA supplementation is associated with women’s compliance with taking a minimum of 90 IFA tablets during their last pregnancy i...

Further analysis aimed to determine the new cut-off correlation between blood triglyceride levels with uncontrolled hypertension among 888 postmenopausal women from two-year follow up of the cohort study in Bogor. Uncontrolled hypertension was defined as the average of systolic and diastolic are >140mmHg and >90mmHg consecutively with no underlying...

Hypercholesterolemia is a condition with total cholesterol level above 240 mg/dl, but the level of 200-239 mg/dl is considered borderline high and categorized as abnormal and may have similar impact as hypercholesterolemia. This condition could facilitate accumulation of plaque in blood vessels, and lead to increased risk of cardiovascular disease....

HIV, AIDS and nutrition are interconnected. In the HIV Integrated Care Unit of Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Public Hospital, nutrition education and counseling services are provided within a collaborative service for people living with HIV (PLWH). This study aimed to determine influence of nutrition education and counseling to knowledge and behavior of P...

A high intake of trans fatty acids can cause inflammation and lipid peroxidation of cell membranes which, in turn, damage cells and tissues. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effects of dietary trans fatty acids on blood glucose levels and pancreatic β cells. Our randomized pre-post test control group study design included two...