[Features of silent myocardial ischemia in male patients with coronary disease]
Abstract:
The results of a study dealing with the specific features of silent myocardial ischemia (SMI) in male patients aged over 70 years are presented. Prolonged episodes of silent myocardial ischemia have been ascertained to be more frequently encountered in patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) as high functional class angina pectoris on exertion, postinfarct cardiosclerosis, arterial hypertension, atherogenic blood lipid disturbances and they increase a total risk for SMI provided that they are combined. All this leads to destabilization of coronary blood flow and becomes a trigger for the development of prognostically significant cardiac arrhythmias by complicating the course of IHD and increasing the cost of drugs.
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