Abstract
The number of patients acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the ICCU dr .Iskak district tulungagung hospital show an increase, namely 158 in 2012 be 164 in 2013. Research purpose is to determine the relationship between weight with AMI in patients in the ICCU Dr. Iskak Tulungagung Hospital. Research design is analytic correlation with cross-sectional method. The population of this study were all patients in the ICCU Space Hospital Dr. Iskak Tulungagung. The sampling technique used is simple random sampling with 116 samples. The independent variables studied were body weight in patients with a body mass index formula (BMI) and the dependent variable was the incidence of acute myocardial infarction with recame medic. Date was analyzed by Spearman rank test with significance level of 0.05 is used. The results show the value of ρ value = 0.003 <α = 0.05, then H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. There is a relationship between weight and the incidence of acute myocardial infarction in patients in the Intensive Coronary Care Unit (ICCU) Hospital Dr. Iskak Tulungagung with the direction of the positive correlation (0.276), which means that if the excess weight the more it will increase the incidence of AMI. It is recommended for the patient and family for AMI patients should know the dangers of excess weight and consulted with nutrition officer of a healthy diet in order to have a normal body weight. Health workers to be more active in health promotion about the dangers of being overweight or obese, and improve the research on the dangers of being obese for AMI.
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