Abstract :
Hypercholesterolemia is a condition of high cholesterol levels (normal < 200 mg/dl) in the blood which causes thickening of the walls the blood vessels, so it causes narrowing of the holes in the blood vessels. Cholesterol is a fat derivative which is a chemical compound of the lipid or fat group that is widely found in food and body. This study aims to analyze The Effect of Combination Avocado (Persea Americana Mill) Sweet Starfruit (Averrhoa Carambola Linn) Juice Consumption on Cholesterol Levels in Patients with Hypercholesterolemia at the Ajung Public Health Center Jember Regency. This type of research is Quasi Experimental with a pretest and posttest control group design research design. The subject taking technique was Purposive Sampling with the number of research subjects are 20 respondents with hypercholesterolemia which were divided into 2 groups. The first group was people who that consumed 390 ml of sweet starfruit juice containing 25,8 mg with a ratio of 200 grams of sweet starfruit and 100 grams of avocado with 50 ml of water, given once a day for 7 days. The second group is a control one that is not given a gift. The analysis used in this research is the Paired Sample T-Test, Mann-Whitney Test, and Ancova Test. There is an effect of consumption of the juice on cholesterol levels where the Mean Rank of the pretest is 13,65 and the Mean Rank of the posttest is 7,35 with p value=0,017. The conclusion of this study that there is an effect of combination consuming avocado sweet starfruit juice on cholesterol levels in patients with Hypercholesterolemia.