Acute myocardial infarction in a 17-year-old Bangladeshi boy-possibility of existence of a Bangladeshi paradox | Zendy

Prabir Das | Zendy; Farzana Hossain | Zendy; Mohammad Rezaul Karim | Zendy

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Acute myocardial infarction in a 17-year-old Bangladeshi boy-possibility of existence of a Bangladeshi paradox

Author(s) -

Prabir Das,

Farzana Hossain,

Mohammad Rezaul Karim

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

case reports in internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2332-7251

pISSN - 2332-7243

DOI - 10.5430/crim.v3n3p62

Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , diabetes mellitus , coronary artery disease , cardiology , risk factor , endocrinology

Coronary artery disease (CAD) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are diseases of older age. AMI is uncommon in young age and rare in adolescence. A seventeen years old Bangladeshi boy developing acute anterior wall MI is described here. Risk factor analysis for CAD revealed absence of most of the conventional risk factors, like smoking, diabetes mellitus, hypertension. An elevated lipoprotein(a) and a low HDL cholesterol was detected in blood which are emerging risk factors of CAD in young Bangladeshis.

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