Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Chennai

Abstract

OBJECTIVES:To ascertain the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) and to assess the association between the metabolic syndrome and its individual components-fasting blood sugar (FBS), blood pressure (BP), HDL cholesterol (HDL-C), triglyceride (TGL) and waist circumference(WC) and the frequency of its definitive components in patients with acute myocardial infarction. (AMI) MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a hospital based cross sectional study were 100 unselected patients with AMI categorized according to NCEP: ATP III 2001 CRITERIA were studied. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Data was analyzed using the student's t test and chi-square test. RESULTS: This study shows high prevalence of metabolic syndrome (53%) in patients with AMI. Hypertension (85%), Hyperglycemia (72%) and Dyslipidemia (70%) were found to be the most prevalent components of metabolic syndrome. CONCLUSION: This study shows that there is a strong correlation between metabolic syndrome and AMI with Hypertension followed by Hyperglycemia having the highest positive predictive value among its components.