Coronary events in Bahrain : descriptive study

Abstract EN

Background : In Bahrain, cardiovascular death accounts for about 19.5 % annually.

Prevalence of Ischemic Heart Diseases (IHD) was 174.4 per 100,000 populations.

Coronary events found to be the fourth leading cause of discharge from Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) in 2005.

Objective : To evaluate the pattern and profile of patients with coronary events.

Setting : Salmaniya Medical Complex, Kingdom of Bahrain.

Design : Retrospective Cross-sectional Study.

Method : Two hundred twenty-six patients were selected by a systematic random sampling technique from patients admitted with coronary events in SMC from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2004.

Data were reviewed and documented from the medical record.

Result : One hundred thirty-eight (61.1%) suffered from unstable angina, 66 (29.2 %) had myocardial infarction and 22 other coronary events.

Pre-existing cardiovascular diseases (previous IHD, atherosclerotic diseases, other heart diseases and stroke) suffered by almost half of the patients.

Hypertension was reported in 97 (42.9 %) patients, while diabetes was reported in 82 (36.3 %) patients.

Conclusion: More than two-third of cases diagnosed with coronary events had unstable angina and nearly one-third of cases had myocardial infarction.

The majority of patients had preexisting morbidities, which include diabetes mellitus, hypertension and chronic cardiac conditions.