Hyperlipidaemia and acute myocardial infarction

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care unit of Diwanayia Teaching Hospital during the period between October 2004 and 2006.

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of blood was obtained from each patient with AMI within 8 hours of the event.

Lipoprotein estimation was done by enzymatic methods.

Low density lipoprotein (LDL) of more than 100- mg/dl is found in 154(77%)patients.

While high density lipoprotein ( HDL-C ) of less than 35mg/dl is found in 56(28%)patients.

The total number of smoker patients without hypertension and diabetes is 76 patients , 56 of them have LDL-C more than 100mg/dl, 14 have HDL-C of less than 35mg/dl.

The total number of studied diabetic patients is 36, 30 of them have serum triglyceride of less than 200mg/dl.

54 of post menopausal women out of 70 have serum LDL-C of more than 100mg/dl while the two premenopausal patients have no ischemic risk factors.