TY - JOUR AU - Alshoka, Monem Makki AU - Al-Hamdany, Kadhim Jawad PY - 2015/09/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Conditioned risk factors in patients with coronary heart disease JF - Journal of Contemporary Medical Sciences JA - J. Contemp. Med. Sci. VL - 1 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://www.jocms.org/index.php/jcms/article/view/29 SP - 24-26 AB - <strong>Objective</strong> Coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factors are increasing in our country. The present study was performed to determine the<br />prevalence of new (conditioned) risk factors among patients with CAD.<br /><strong>Methods</strong> In 85 patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) we study the presence of risk factors including plasma fibrinogen, serum ferritin,<br />serum iron and serum uric acid. The diagnosis of IHD in these patients depends on clinical history and examination, ECG, cardiac echo, and<br />certain investigations including cardiac enzymes. Of these 85 patients, there are 23 females and 62 males, and also there were 50 persons<br />selected as control group. We divided the patients into two groups: one group who had acute coronary heart disease (55 patients) and the<br />second group with chronic IHD (30 patients).<br /><strong>Results</strong> The result of the study showed that there were statistically significant differences in the level of plasma fibrinogen between the two<br />groups which were higher in the acute group, similar was the case with serum ferritin and serum iron but the level of serum uric acid was<br />the same in both the groups.<br /><strong>Conclusion</strong> We conclude that plasma fibrinogen and serum ferritin can be used as a marker for the prediction of the presence of acute IHD.<br /><br /> ER -