title: Risk factor analysis and diagnoses of coronary heart disease in patients with hypercholesterolemia from Croatian Zagorje County.
abstract: Our aim is to determine if there exists a difference in risk factors and diagnosis between patients being treated on internal medicine ward for coronary heart disease who have higher levels of cholesterol in their blood and other patients, without proved higher levels of cholesterol, hospitalized for coronary heart disease. We followed patients hospitalized in General Hospital Zabok for coronary heart disease for the period between 2004-2006y. On admission patients were diagnosed with coronary heart disease based on laboratory markers specific for the disease (CK, troponin, LDH,CRP), ECG and history taking. We analyzed two groups of patients for diagnosis and risk factors on discharge from the hospital: one group with proven hypercholesterolemia, the other with coronary heart disease without hypercholesterolemia. For the duration of the study there were no significant alternations concerning risk factors for coronary heart disease, and hypertension was the most prevalent of these factors in both groups. Values of HDL, as an indirect indicator of coronary heart disease, were lower in both groups for the duration of the study. In group of patients with hypercholesterolemia myocardial infarction with a ST segment elevation, as a discharge diagnosis, was a more prevalent complication of the disease, while for the group of patients without hypercholesterolemia stable angina pectoris was more prevalent and this is explained as atheroma plaque stabilization when there are normal values of blood cholesterol.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Zabok, Zabok, Croatia. ksenija.pesek@kr.t-com.hr
authors.forename: Ksenija
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pesek
authors.forename: Damir
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Buković
authors.forename: Tomislav
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pesek
authors.forename: Slavko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oresković
authors.forename: Darko
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Milinović
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rukavina
authors.forename: Mato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pavić
authors.forename: Marija
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zlojtro