Why the study?
The study was designed to assess the risk of factors such as smoking, diabetes, obesity, and gender in the development of myocardial infarction.
Are smoking, diabetes, obesity, and advanced age associated with the development of myocardial infarction?
Are smoking, diabetes, obesity, and advanced age associated with the development of myocardial infarction?
This study confirms that traditional risk factors such as advanced age, smoking, diabetes, and obesity are significantly associated with myocardial infarction in a local population in Lahore.
May support risk factor control for MI prevention; leaves open validation in larger prospective studies.
The current study was designed for risk assessment of different factors like smoking, diabetes, obesity, and gender in the development of myocardial infarction (MI). A total of one hundred and twelve participants (n=112) was included in this case and control study. They were further divided into two groups. Group A, constituted of fifty controls whereas sixty-two age and sex-matched confirmed cases of Myocardial Infarction were selected for group B. Specially design questionnaire was filled and response form was collected from different hospitals of Lahore. Body mass index (BMI) was used to determine the obesity. The current study demonstrated that the advanced age is itself a risk factor of MI, other factors like smoking, diabetes and obesity were also found to be statistically significant contributory elements. From the results of current study and past literature it is very much evident that above mentioned risk factors have significant role in sudden cardiac death by potentiating the MI. So, by avoiding or controlling these risk factors a deadly event myocardial infarction can be avoided.
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Hafeez et al. (2020) studied this question.
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