Coronary events in Bahrain: descriptive study

ABSTRACT

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. To evaluate the pattern and profile of patients with coronary events. Salmaniya Medical Complex, Kingdom of Bahrain. Retrospective Cross-sectional Study. 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. 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. 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