Profile of coronary artery risk factors in Ethiopian diabetic patients
B Seyoum1, J Abdulkadir, P Berhanu
1Endocrinology and Metabolism Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
Objectives:
To assess the coronary artery risk factors in Ethiopian diabetic patients.
Design:
A cross sectional study done on a representative sample of diabetic patients to evaluate the coronary risk factors.
Setting:
Hospital-based study.
Subjects:
A total of 302 diabetic patients randomly selected from the 3000 regularly attending diabetic patients in the Tikur Anbessa Hospital Diabetes Centre of whom 161(53.3%) were males, 141(46.7%) were females, 140(46.4%) were Type 1 and 162(53.6%) were Type 2.
Outcome Measures:
Assessment of the coronary risk factors in diabetic patients.
Results:
There were 20(6.6%) smokers and no ex-smokers. All smokers were males of whom five (25%) were Type 1 and 15(75%) were Type 2. Hypertension and obesity were found in 64(21.2%) and 69(22.8%) patients respectively. Sixty one (20.2%) patients and 43(14.2%) patients had hypercholesterolaemia and hypertriglyceridaemia respectively.
Conclusion:
Our diabetic patients share the risk factors for developing coronary artery disease like any other diabetic patient in the developed countries but at a lower level.
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