An evaluation of prevalence rate of different kinds of acute myocardial infarction in the patients admitted in Ardabil Bouali Hospital during the past two years

Introduction: Coronary heart disease, especially acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the most common cause of death of human beings in the world today. In this survey, we studied the prevalence rate of different kinds of AMI from the point of location in our patients, that had admitted in Ardabil Bouali Hospital during the past two years (2004 – 2005). Methods and materials: This study was done in descriptive - analytic and prospective method. In that, 600 patients were studied after establishment of their diagnosis of AMI (by taking history , peforming physical exam , taking serial ECG,s and checking cardiac serum enzymes), then the acquired data were gathered in special forms and analyzed by statistical methods. Findings: From 600 patients, 438 persons (73%) were men and 162 persons (27%) were women. The mean age of patients was 60.33 years (58.63 years in men and 65.06 years in women). From 600 patients, 311 patients (51.83%) had anterior AMI , 250 patients (41.67%) had inferior AMI and 39 patients (6.5%) had mixed inferior-anterior AMI. Conclusion: As mentioned above, the prevalence rate of AMI in men to women was about 2.7/1 (73% versus 27%) that it was according to the standard findings. Also, the mean age of men was lower than women, and the most prevalent kind of AMI was anterior type (51.83%), then the inferior (41.67%) and the last was mixed anterior and inferior type (6.5%)