Prevalence of Risk Factors in Patients with Myocardial Infarction

Cardiovascular diseases constitute the leading cause of death in men in economically developed countries. It is estimated that there were approximately 46.9 million patients with cardiovascular disease in India during the year 2010.

The study was undertaken in prospective manner at Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital, Allahabad, affiliated to Moti Lal Nehru Medical College, Allahabad. 97 patients with myocardial infarction were taken in to consideration. 9 patients did not give the consent so total of 88 patients were included in the study.

Out Of total patients 72 were males. Mean age of the patients was 55.13. Eighteen patients (20.45%) were known hypertensive. (22.73%) of the patients were found to have diabetes mellitus. 46 patients used to smoke. All the smokers were males. Out of the smokers 14 expired. Relation between smoking and mortality was found to be significant with p=.0410. 37 (42%) of the patients were having sedentary lifestyle out of whom 26 were males and 11were females.19 patients had history of prior MI out of them 14(19.45%) were males and 5(31.25%) were males. A significant relation was found between prior MI and mortality (p=.0141).

There is an increasing epidemic of non communicable diseases in developing countries. It is seen that preventable risk factors play an important role in heart diseases. These factors increase the risk of mortality. So efforts should be done to prevent these risk factors at primodial and primary level only.