1Resident, Dept. of General Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Amritsar
2Associate Professor, Dept. of General Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Amritsar
3Professor, Dept. of General Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Amritsar
4Professor & Head, Dept. of Biochemistry, Govt. Medical College, Amritsar
5Residents, Dept. of General Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Amritsar
Online published on 1 October, 2015.
Ischaemic heart disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality world-wide. There are various classical risk factors for Ischaemic heart disease like age, gender, diabetes, hypertension, smoking, increased BMI and abnormal lipid profiles. To reduce the burden of Ischaemic heart disease, management strategies are focusing over the identification of new risk factors so that disease can be detected at an early stage and apply various preventive measures. There is growing interest that microalbuminuria is an independent risk factor in IHD. So, this study focuses on microalbuminuria which is gaining importance as marker of atherosclerosis and hence ischaemic heart disease.
To assess relationship of microalbuminuria with ischaemic heart disease in non-diabetic subjects.
50 cases of ischaemic heart disease and 50 sex matched normal healthy subjects were included in the study. Microalbuminuria in these subjects was measured in 24 hours urine sample.
In our study prevalence of microalbuminuria was 66% in ischaemic heart disease subjects as compared to 8% in normal healthy subjects (p<0.001).
Microalbuminuria is highly prevalent in non-diabetic, ischaemic heart disease subjects.
IHD(ischaemic heart disease), MA(microalbuminuria), LDL(low density lipoproteins), TG(triglyceride), HDL(high density lipoproteins)
