Showing 4 results for Myocardial Infarction
Hr Mashreghimoghadam, T Kazemi, F Besharatimoghadam,
Volume 4, Issue 2 (9-2008)
Abstract
Background and objective: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the most prevalent cause of mortality in the world today. Sometimes before an acute phase of AMI there are certain prodromal symptoms. Since there are some social and cultural differences in Iranian population, this study was deigned to investigate the prodromal symptoms in patients with AMI in city of Birjand.
Methods: In this analytic-descriptive research, 165 patients with first AMI who were hospitalized in the CCU and cardiac ward of the Valiassr Hospital in Birjand from the 2006-2007 were studied. A valid questionnaire which was designed by expert cardiologists was used. The T-test and ANOVA were used for data analysis, and p<0.05 was considered as the significant level.
Results: Among 165 subjects, there was 118 (71.5%) males and 102 patients (61.8%) had Anterior MI. 61 patients (37%) reported cardiac prodromal symptoms and 43 patients (26.1%) reported systemic prodromal symptoms. The most common cardiac prodromal symptom 2 days before AMI was chest pain in the right and left hemithorax (24.2%), and the most common systemic prodromal symptom was loss of appetite (12.7%). Women reported more cardiac (p=0.04) and systemic (p=0.00) prodromal symptoms than men. This difference was statistically significant (p <0.05).
Conclusion: Careful attention to history and prodromal symptoms in patients with cardiac risk factors may be caused early diagnosis, efficient treatment plan and better prognosis of AMI in patients.
T Kazemi, Gh Sharifzadeh, F Hosseinaii,
Volume 4, Issue 3 (3-2009)
Abstract
Background & Objectives: Recognition of epidemiology of acute myocardial infraction (AMI) in every region could be a need for design the programs for prevention of AMI. In this study we assessed the epidemiology of changes in AMI from 2002-2006 in Birjand(east of Iran).
Methods: All of the patients which hospitalized by AMI diagnosis from 2002-2006 years, included in this study. We compared mean of age, gender, location of living, medications used, condition at discharge and cardiac risk factors in this period.
Results: From 1233 patients, 880 were male (71.4%). Overall, mean age of patients was 62/2±12/8 years and in five years was increased (from 61.7±13/2 in 2002 to 63.5±12/4 in 2006 & p=0.37). The most risk factors in patients were: Hypertension (HTN) (34/8%) ,cigarette smoking (32/1%) & dyslipidemia (24%). These risk factors did not show any significantly changes during 5 years. But the the prevalence of HTN (30/9% in 2002 to 38% in 2006, p=0/62) and DM (15/5% in 2002 to 21% in 2006, p=0/23) raised. Cardiac drugs use tended to increase during 5 years, however only this increase about STK & Statin was statistically significant. The hospital mortality rate was decreased in 5 years (11.3%) but it was not statistically significant (p= 0.48).
Conclusions: Regarding the accelerating the rate of AMI, designing an appropriate prograrme for prevention and modifying cardiac risk factors is recommended.
Ab Mohammadian Hafshejani, H Baradaran, N Sarrafzadegan, M Asadi Lari, A Ramezani, Sh Hosseini, F Allahbakhshi Hafshejani,
Volume 8, Issue 2 (9-2012)
Abstract
Background & Objectives: Despite decreasing the trend of coronary artery
diseases in developed countries and outstanding improvements in clinical
management of these patients, case fatality rate after an acute myocardial
infarction (AMI) remains high in both genders. Identifying predicting factors
of short-term survival in patients with AMI may play an important role in
reducing mortality in these patients.
Methods: In
this cohort study, all patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) admitted
to all hospitals in Isfahan, Iran, during 2000-2008 which registered in Isfahan
cardiovascular research Institute were analyzed. We used Cox regression models,
uni- and multi-variable analysis.
Results: Within
the study period, 8800 AMI patients (73.6% male) were admitted with mean age of
61.85±12.5, and overall 28-day survival of 90.5%. Relative risk (RR) of death
for 50-70 years old patients was 2.5 (CI:2-3.1), for over 70 years old RR=5
(CI:4-6.3), for women RR=1.7 (CI:1.5-1.9), for patients who had not received
streptokinase RR=0.9 (CI:0.8-1.1), for inferior MI RR=4.2 (CI:2.2-7.8) and for
anterior MI, RR was equal to 7.2 (CI:4-13.3).
Conclusion: Recognizing
the predicting factors of short-term survival of AMI patients may help health
professionals to provide better healthcare services for more at risk patients,
i.e. elderly, women and patients with an anterior MI.
A Ahmadi, H Soori, Y Mehrabi, K Etemad,
Volume 12, Issue 1 (6-2016)
Abstract
Background and Objectives: Determining and monitoring the age at myocardial infarction (MI) and its comparison in various regions is one of the vital and basic principles for the management of MI.This study was conducted to determine the age at the first MI in Iran.
Methods: In this cross-sectional, analytical study at a national level, the data of 20750 new MI patients registered in 2012 in 31 provinces of Iran according to the cardiologist’s diagnosis, World Health Organization criteria, and the codes ICD10: I21-I22 were used. The calculations were done using the Stata 12 software.
Results: The mean±SD of age at the first MI was 61.2±13.4 years in all patients in Iran. Moreover, 15033 (72.4%) patients were male with a mean age of 59.6±13.3 years. The mean age at MI in men was lower than women (65.4±12.6 years), showing a statistical significance (P<0.001).The mean age at MI was different among Iran provinces, with a statistical significance (P<0.001). The lowest mean age at the first MI was seen in the patients living in Semnan (59.1±12.9 years), followed by Tehran (60.4±13.5 years), Sistan va Balouchestan (60.3±13.9 years), and Lorestan (60.1±14.5 years), with a significant difference from the mean age of the patients in Ardabil (63.2±15.1 years) and Zanjan (64.4±112.8 years) (P<0.019).
Conclusion: Our study demonstrated that the age at MI was approximately five years younger in men than women. This studyprovided the ground for monitoring the age at MI, and more effective management of cardiovascular diseases in Iran.
