Prevalence of Hypertension and Myocardial Infarction in Relation with Blood groups in Open Cardiac Center at Al-Najaf City

To estimate theprevalence of hypertension and myocardial infarction among patient attending Open Cardiac Center at Al-Najaf city and investigated them in relation with blood groups. A study was conducted on 100 patients (55 males and 45 females) from which (9 male and 18 female) with hypertension and (25 male and 12 female) with MI who were admitted to Al-Sadar Hospital to perform surgical operations in the period from March 2018 to December 2019, and a total of 19 healthy persons were considered as a control group. Their ages ranged from (18–70) old years. The results show the male patients (55) %, significantly increase (p≤0. 05) as compared with the females (45) %, and are observed in younger ages (18–40) old year the females (22) % were recorded significantly elevate (p≤0. 05) in comparison with the male (14) % at the same ages. The results demonstrate that there was no significant different among all blood groups, but, the blood group O+ of control sample (healthy persons) is recorded high rate ((51.2) % as compared with other blood groups of control samples and with patients of (hypertension and myocardial) groups.