Abstract
Ischemic heart disease is the most common cause of death in human beings. It is well established cause of mortality and morbidity. Objectives: The main purpose of the study was to analyze different risk factors associated with ischemic heart diseases in different age group patients of both genders of a tertiary care hospital of Peshawar.
Methods: It was a cross-sectional study conducted on 350 patients of different age groups presented with ischemic heart disease in tertiary care hospitals in Peshawar
Results: study contains 350 patients in which female patients are 133 (38%) and male are 217(62%). The mean age was 57.23±11.36 years. The age of the patients ranges from 22 to 80 years. About 64.3% patients were presenting with acute IHD and 35.7% were with chronic IHD. Stress, HTN, DM and sedentary lifestyle were found to be significantly associated with male gender (p- value <0.05). Age was divided into two groups, <45 years and >45 years. Stress, HTN, DM and hypercholesterolemia had a significant association with >45 years of age group (P-value <0.05). Conclusion: Stress & hypertension are more common in males while sedentary lifestyle and diabetes mellitus are in females and in age group equal to and more than 45 years.
