European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

FREQUENCY OF METABOLIC SYNDROME IN PATIENT WITH ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE

Dr. Khurram Irshad*, Dr. Asif Younas, Dr. Shiraz Javed and Dr. Muhammad Ahsan Shafiq

ABSTRACT

The objective of current study is to determine the frequency of different component of metabolic syndrome among patients with IHD presenting at a teaching hospital. This was a Cross-Sectional study performed at a tertiary care hospital of Lahore, in a duration of 3 month from 1st January 2020 to 31th March. There were total 195 patients were enrolled in study presented with IHD. The sampling was done through Non-probability sampling technique. Metabolic syndrome was found to be present in 61.5 % of patients. 53.8% were males and 46.2% were females with ratio of 1:1.16. We found that 101 (51.7%) patients were obese in our study. Out of 101, ninety six were having ischemic heart disease. There were 97 (49.7%) of the patients with high triglycerides level and out of these 82 were having ischemic heart disease. Eighty (41%) of the total patients with low HDL values, out of these eighty, 49 patients were having ischemic heart disease. 39% of the total Hypertensive IHD patients were having metabolic syndrome. The most frequent component of metabolic syndrome found in our patients was the raised fasting blood sugar level i.e. 107 (54.8%) of total patients. And out of these 107 patients, 91.5% were having metabolic syndrome associated IHD.

Keywords: IHD, Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity, Hypertension, FBS.