Diabetes Millutes As Risk Factor For Myocardial Infarction

This is cross-sectional descriptive study conducted on patient with myocardial infactional period April – October 2003 in the CCU in Alshaab and Omdurman teaching hospitals to investigate diabetes as a risk Factor. Two-hundered patient were included in this study, 47% were diabetic, 44% of them had high level of FBS and 43% with high level of 2 hours post prandial. In addition there was coexisting other risk Factors such as hypertension 33% hypercholesterolemia 22%, hypertriglyceriedaemia 23% and smoking 49%. In hypertensive patients the systolic blood pressure was more than 160mmHg in 42.2% while diastolic blood pressure were more than 110mmHg in 15.2%. Also this study showed that MI is more common in male 67% than female 33%. This study concluded that diabetes is major risk factor for myocardial infraction in Sudanese patien