ischemic heart disease in women

ABSTRACT

Ischaemic heart disease is very common in females after the menopause. Diabetes mellitus and hypertension are documented to be strong predictors of obstructive C.A.D. in females, in Pakistan. Females present as angina more often than myocardial infarction, but the mortality is higher in females with myocardial infarction than in angina. There are special problems in analysing chest pain syndrome in females, even though E.T.T. coronary angiographic data. Coronary bypass surgery is only used in about 8-10% female patients at the present time in our country as compared to male patients. In this paper an effort is made to summarize the clinical findings, E.T.T., Angiography, coronary bypass surgery, angioplasty findings in females published in Pakistan and compare it with that from the western countries