[Risk factors in ischemic heart disease patients]
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Ischemic heart disease (IHD) risk factors like hypertension and emotional stress increase with age. Patients often have multiple risk factors, necessitating comprehensive societal interventions for prevention and management.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Public Health
Context:
- Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is a significant health concern, with prevalence increasing with age.
- Risk factors for IHD are common and often co-exist in patients.
Purpose:
- To examine the prevalence of IHD and associated risk factors in a patient cohort.
- To analyze the relationship between age and IHD incidence.
- To identify the most prevalent risk factors and their cumulative effect.
Summary:
- A study of 460 patients revealed increasing IHD incidence with age, including myocardial infarction, stenocardia, and myocardiosclerosis.
- Hypertension (56.30%) and emotional stress (46.52%) were the most common risk factors, followed by heredity, smoking, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, overfeeding, hypercholesterinemia, and diabetes.
- Patients averaged 3.18 risk factors, with higher frequency and earlier onset in myocardial infarction cases.
Impact:
- Highlights the multifactorial nature of IHD and the urgent need for societal-level strategies.
- Emphasizes the growing burden of cardiovascular disease due to accumulated risk factors.
- Underscores the importance of addressing hypertension, emotional stress, and other modifiable risk factors.
Abstract:
Four hundred sixty patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) were examined: 226 of them--with myocardial infarction; 38--stenocardia, 196--myocardiosclerosis. With age advancing all forms of IHD increase. The incidence of the followed up risk factors progessively increases. Hypertension has the greatest share--56.30 per cent out of all the subjects examined. Second place as regards incidence is occupied by the emotional stress--46.52 per cent. Further they are as follows: heredity--38.91 per cent; tobacco smoking--34.57 per cent, sedentary life--32,83 per cent, obesity--31.52 per cent, overfeeding--30 per cent, hypercholesterinemia--30 per cent, diabetes--17.61 per cent. The significance of the indicated risk factors alarmingly grows, consideration given to their combined effect. An average of 3.18 risk factors fall on patient. In patients with myocardial infarction they are more frequent and appear at an earlier age. Such an accumulation of the noxae upon the contemporary man requires the complex effors of the whole society.