“A Study of the Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Complications in Systemic Hypertension”.

Abstract

Aims and Objectives: 1. To know the clinical profile of the patients presenting with systemic hypertension. 2. To evaluate the patients for cardiovascular risk factors. 3. To study the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors among the studied group. 4. To study the chest roentgenogram, electrocardiogram and echocardiographic finding of the same patients. Design: Cross – sectional prospective study of 80 patients with Systemic Hypertension. Setting and Method: The Study was done at Osh Regional Integrated Clinical Hospital and Osh City Territorial Clinical Hospital of The Kyrgyz Republic. Eighty patients fulfilling the criteria of high blood pressure on repeated measurement on two different occasions were enrolled in the study. They underwent routine and special investigations to look for cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular complications which included laboratory studies, chest x-ray electrocardiogram and echocardiography. Conclusion: Hypertension is a major cardiovascular risk factor. Cardiovascular complications were significantly increased in the presence of other cardiovascular risk factors compared to patients without risk factors. Most common major clinical cardiovascular complication remains Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in uncontrolled hypertension and majority of patients had presented with angina or myocardial infarction and the other major CVS complication being heart failure.