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Correlations between Lifestyle and Ischemic Heart Disease in Young Patient

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  • Raluca IANULA

    (University “Carol Davila”, Bucharest, Romania)

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Myocardial infarction in young adults, an important public health issue, is a controversial topic with many issues left unknown. Although its prevalence is low, its consequences are disastrous, as it affects apparently healthy subjects who afterwards suffer important lifestyle changes with profound social, professional and medical implications. In this perspective, the thesis aims to analyze epidemiologic aspects regarding incidence, morbidity of myocardial infarction in young people (patients under 45 years) and correlation with traditional cardiovascular risk factors: tobacco use, effort, diet, dyslipidemia, obesity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus.The present study is descriptive, longitudinal, ambispective: retrospective until 2004 and prospective for next 10 years, including all of the 122 patients consecutively admitted to the Cardiology Department of Bagdasar-Arseni Hospital, aged under 45 and diagnosed with AMI. These represented 9% of all patients with this diagnosis. Considering the time evolution, we can notice an alarming increase in incidence, statistically significant, (p

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  • Raluca IANULA, 2015. "Correlations between Lifestyle and Ischemic Heart Disease in Young Patient," Romanian Statistical Review, Romanian Statistical Review, vol. 63(4), pages 82-94, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:rsr:journl:v:63:y:2015:i:4:p:82-94
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