ABSTRACT
Background: Dyslipidemia is one of the modifiable risk factors of coronary heart disease
Objective: to determine the pattern of dyslipidemia in young patients with dyslipidemia
Methodology: a total of 120 patients, 20 to 40 years of age of either gender with acute Myocardial Infarction were included in this cross sectional study, from 1[st] January to 30[th] August 2015. Patients with history of ischemic heart disease, chronic renal failure, hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus, and were hypertensive and on statin therapy were excluded. Venous blood sample was taken and sent to laboratory for analysis of following parameter serum total cholesterol level, serum triglycerides level, low density lipoprotein [LDL] and high density lipoprotein [HDL]. This data entered was and analyzed and using SPSS version 16
Results: mean age was 34.13 +/- 4.57 years. Out of these 120 patients, 80.83% were males and 19.17% were females with male to female ratio of 4.22:1. Dyslipidemia was present in 73 [60.83%] patients while 47 [39.17%] has shown normal lipid profile. Among total patients hypertriglyceridemia was present [45%] followed by hypercholesterolemia [36.67%], raised LDL [25.83%] and low HDL [10.83%]
Conclusion: this study concluded that there is a high frequency of dyslipidemia in young patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction