Open AccessISCHEMIC HEART DISEASES
Author(s) -
Syed Fasih Ahmed Hashmi,
Mashooq Ali Dasti,
Muhammad Sajid Abbas Jaffri,
Hamid Nawaz Ali Memon,
Athar Hussain Memon,
Zulfiqar Ali Qutrio Baloch,
Syed Zulfiquar Ali Shah
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2016.23.04.1498
Subject(s) - medicine , hyperhomocysteinemia , homocysteine , myocardial infarction , cardiology , surgery
Objectives: To determine the frequency of hyperhomocysteinemia level inpatients with ischemic heart diseases. Study Design: Case series study. Setting: LiaquatUniversity Hospital Hyderabad. Period: Six months. Patients and Methods: All the patientswith known ischemic heart disease of either sex gave the history of myocardial infarction andechocardiography showed motion wall abnormalities were recruited and entered in the study.After confirmation of IHD, the 2cc venous blood sample was taken in sterilize disposablesyringe and sent to laboratory for evaluation of serum homocysteine levels while the data wascollected on pre-designed proforma and the data was analyzed in SPSS 16 and the frequencyand percentage was calculated. Results: Total one hundred patients with known ischemiccardiac disease were recruited and evaluated for homocysteine level. The mean ±SD forage of patients with ischemic heart diseases was 55.82±10.94. Majority of the patients weremales 57% and the male to female cross tabulation was statistically significant (p=0.02). Thehyperhomocysteinemia was not statistically significant in relation to age while it is significantin relation to gender (p=0.01). The overall frequency of hyperhomocysteinemia in IHD was62% with male predominance 66%, of sixty percent hyperhomocysteinemic individuals 41.9%had severe, 37.1% had intermediate and 21% had mild elevated homocysteine level (p=0.02).Conclusion: It was concluded that hyperhomocysteinemia was associated