TY - JOUR AU - Omer, M. A. Ali AU - Gar-elnabi, Mohamed E. M. AU - Alsayyari, Abdulrahman A. AU - Yousuf, Jamal H. AU - Mohammed, Mohammed F. PY - 2016/12/24 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Studying of heart diseases prevalence, distribution and cofactors in Sudanese population JF - International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences JA - Int J Res Med Sci VL - 4 IS - 1 SE - Original Research Articles DO - 10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20160032 UR - https://www.msjonline.org/index.php/ijrms/article/view/473 SP - 206-211 AB - <p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> the following study aimed to reveals the heart diseases (HD) prevalence, distribution and co-factors in Sudanese population during June 2014-June 2015 and to answer the questions related to, in Sudan.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> The data collected from different hospitals as gender, age, body mass index BMI, smoking habits, residential states, Pathologies, cardiothoracic ratio CCT, symptoms and breathing rate.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> showed that HD were predominant among male with 56% and peaked among 65-77 year old, most of sample were either obese or overweight   representing 57% or 35% respectively. The common cofactors for HD were the socio-economic, smoking, hypertension and obesity which representing 90%, 75%, 60% and 57% respectively. The heart diseases HD incidence in Khartoum, Aljazeera, White Nile, Red Sea, and West of Sudan was 40%, 25%, 20%, 10% and 5% respectively. The common type of HD was Coronary Arteries, Valves, Myocardial infarction, and Congestive Heart Failure representing 45%, 17%, 23%, and 15% respectively. And signs were Hypertension, Diabetes mellitus, High Cholesterol, breathing rate, edema, palpitation with relative frequencies 9%, 11%, 6%, 12%, 8% and 10% respectively. Patients’ cardiothoracic ratio CTR exceeding normal level (0.5), A significant relationship between CTR and Breathing rate (BR) (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.8) fits in CTR=0.02BR+0.2 as well between age and BR (R<sup>2</sup>) fits in BR=0.21age + 12.84. And all patients had BR exceeding the adult normal range (12-20).</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> HD could be as endemic to increase mortality following the uneasy avoidable cofactors in the nearest future.</p><p class="abstract"> </p> ER -