Abstract:Background

This hospital-based study was carried out on the patients of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) and bronchial asthma, who were admitted into the Department of Medicine, Rajshahi Medical College Hospital between the period of July 1999 to December 2000. The main objective of the study was to compare the occurrence of cor pulmonale among the patients of COPD and bronchial asthma. Sixty patients fulfilling the diagnostic criteria of bronchial asthma (n=30) and COPD (n=30) from the admitted cases of obstructive air way diseases were included in the study by random sampling method. It was found that occurrence of cor pulmonale was significantly higher among the patients of COPD than those of bronchial asthma. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/taj.v14i2.8386 TAJ 2001; 14(2): 56-60

This was a hospital based study done on 334 patients attending in medicine OPD BSMMU. According to modified NCEP ATP Ill criteria 27.2% of subjects aged 20 years had the metabolic syndrome and was more commonly seen in women than in men (32.4% vs 21.7%, P<0.05). The metabolic syndrome increased with age in both sexes (40-49 years age groups 24.2% to 50-59 years age groups 35.2%). Majority of the patients (59.3%) were in the age group 40-60 years. Overall frequencies of components of the metabolic syndrome were in the order of abdominal obesity (97.8%) > low high density lipoprotein (83.5%) > hypertension (71.4%) > triglycerides (67.0%) > fasting plasma glucose (44.0%). Abdominal obesity appeared to be the highest frequent components of the metabolic syndrome in both sexes (men 100% and women 96.4%). However, among male patients, high serum triglycerides (77.1%) appeared to be the second frequent components. Whereas among female patients low high density lipoprotein cholesterol (96.4%) appeared to be the second frequent component and was found to be high compared to the male patients (62.9%). Most of those with metabolic syndrome had three components of the syndrome (48.3%), 38.4% had four, and 13% had five components. The percentage of clusters   of  components  increased with age  of  the patients and  in female sex.TAJ 2009; 22(1): 176-182