PREVALENCE OF SMOKING, DIABETES MELLITUS AND HYPERTENSION IN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME Authors: Zuhair Hassan Nasir Alrubayi and Abed Ibrahem Mahmood
ABSTRACT
Background: Ischemic Heart Disease is the most important and first cause of death all over the
world.
There are: Non-avoidable risk factors which are age, sex, and family history and avoidable or
modifiable risk factors mainly hypertension, diabetes mellitus, smoking.
Aim: To know the prevalence of the most important 3 risk factors in ACS and to compare the
incidence whether one or more risk factors are associated.
Patients and methods:
300 patients with A.C.S (myocardial infarction and unstable angina) were admitted to the C.C.U
of Sheikh Zayed Hospital within 3 months duration July, August, October of 2014. all patients
in the study were resuscitated on admission in the emergency department and those need
fibrinolytic therapy (tissue plasminogen activator) (actiylase or metalyse received at that time).
The study showing that the affected cases of acute coronary syndrome:
Results