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Correo Científico Médico
On-line version ISSN 1560-4381
Abstract
DE LA TORRE RODRIGUEZ, Adrián and ALBERTERIS ROJAS, Idania . Clinical and epidemiological characterization of the heart attach in the Vladimir Ilich Lenin University General Hospital in the period 2010 - 2011. CCM [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.1, pp. 103-104. ISSN 1560-4381.
Introduction: the heart attach is a diseases associated to biological risk factor, with elevated mortality. Objective: to characterize clinic and epidemiological heart attack in the Coronary Care Unit of University General Hospital Vladimir I. Lenin, of Holguín, in the period May 2010- May 2011. Methods: A serial case study with 199 patients admitted in the Vladimir I. Lenin Hospital with the diagnostic of heart attack in the period May 2011- May 2012 was make. Results: in the 199 patients studied, we detected that heart attack is most frequent in the masculine sex with 118 affected, for a 59.2 %. After 56 years old, the incidence of this pathology was higher. From 56 to 70 years old we can see 84 cases for a 42.2 %. One hundred - forty four patient presented arterial hypertension, for a 72.3 %. The amount of 131 patient presented complication, for a 65.8 %. The bomb fall prevalence with 60 cases, for a 45.8 %. Seventy - eight patients died, for a 39.1 % of mortality. The most affected group, about the mortality, was more than 70 years. Conclusions: The patient or more 56 years old and masculine sex report most case with heart attack in the investigation. The arterial hypertension and the bomb fall elevated the mortality of patient with most years old.
Keywords : heart attack; risk factor; complication; mortality.