Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
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ISSN: 2155-9880
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2155-9880
+44 1300 500008
Maysam Mard-Soltani
Dezful University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Clin Exp Cardiolog
Background: Heart failure (HF) is recognized as a structural and functional heart complication. Many studies have revealed thatanemia plays an ambiguous role in this complication and can be a significant prognostic parameter in HF. In our trial, for clarifica-tion of this issue, the relationship between HF and anemia was studied. Methods: In this case-control study, 273 patients admitted to the CCU and post-CCU wards of Dezful Hospital, who were selectedby the available sampling method, were studied. In this investigation, among 273 patients with HF, hematological, biochemical,and heart functional parameters were assessed and compared with 89 healthy volunteers. Consequently, the correlation betweenhematological parameters and functional heart parameters in the patients was evaluated via Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Results: The study subjects were tried to have similar conditions regarding their demographic characteristics. The mean age of theincluded participants was 53.68 ±2.17 years. Our data revealed that HF occurs mainly at the age of 50 to 70 years, and patients hadan 8.7% mortality risk. Hematocrit (HCT) had a significant reduction in the HF group in comparison to the normal range (P-value <0.05), and HCT level in healthy subjects (P-value 0.02). Further, anemia is positively correlated with HF mortality rate and severity ofHF indices in patients (P-value = 0.01). Conclusions: The results of our study, consistent with other previous studies, showed that HF patients have a low HCT level, andthis reduction is associated with a marked decline in health status indices in HF patients. Also, our results revealed that patientswith the lowest level of HCT are at high risk for HF symptoms.
Pagmadulam Sukhbaatar is currently working in the department of Cardiology at Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences in Mongolia. He has over 50 publications that have been cited over 25 times, in local and international Journals.