title: Traditional cardiac risk factors profile in Iranian patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  It is well known that the traditional cardiac risk factors (TCRFs) affect short-term and long-term outcome following coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). The objective of this study was to detect the prevalence of these risk factors i.e., hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidaemia, smoking and family history of premature CAD in an Iranian population undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From March 2001 to September 2005, we retrospectively analysed prospectively collected data from our registry. Data were achieved regarding TCRFs in 10,622 consecutive patients undergoing elective CABG. Mean age of the patients was 58.75 +/- 9.72 years and 74.4% were men. The majority of the patients were overweight with a body mass index (BMI) > or = 25.0 kg/m2. Hyperlipidaemia was present in 63.9% of the patients. Over half of all the patients had hypertension and over one third diabetes. History of smoking was present in 37.7% of the patients and one third had a family history of CAD. Of all the patients, 91.6% had at least one of the TCRFs. As compared to men, women were more overweight or obese, and had a greater prevalence of hyperlipidaemia, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and family history of CAD but smoking was much more common in men than in women.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The current study revealed a high prevalence of most of TCRFs in an Iranian population that underwent CABG.
authors: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Tehran Heart Centre, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors: Abbasali
authors: A
authors: Karimi
authors: Mehrab
authors: M
authors: Marzban
authors: Namvar
authors: N
authors: Movahedi
authors: Abbas
authors: A
authors: Salehiomran
authors: Saeed
authors: S
authors: Sadeghian
authors: Hamidreza
authors: H
authors: Goodarzynejad
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006949:Hyperlipidemias / Q000453:epidemiology; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology; D007492:Iran / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D050177:Overweight / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012042:Registries; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects; D013997:Time Factors