DOI: 10.36347/sasjm.2023.v09i08.016

Pages: 889-894

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the highly contagious infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2), has had a catastrophic effect on the world’s demographics resulting in about 3 million deaths worldwide within a few years. The outbreak of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) and the virus has now spread to many countries and territories including Bangladesh. On the other hand, in this country, number of ischemic heart disease (IHD) patients is increasing day by day. Aim of the study: This study aimed to assess the demographic and clinical characteristics of ischemic heart disease patients with COVID-19. Methods: This was a cross-sectional analytical study and was conducted in the Department of Biochemistry, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh from January 2021 to December 2021. In total 70 diagnosed COVID-19 patients with or without IHD, were enrolled in this study as the study subjects. A convenient purposive sampling technic was used in sample selection. Among the total study subjects, 35 were post-COVID-19 with IHD (Cases in group-A) and 35 were post-COVID-19 without IHD (Control in Group-B). Data were analyzed by using the SPSS version 23.0 program. Results: In this study, the mean ± SD age of group A (COVID-19 with IHD) participants was 57.62 ±11.32 years and there was no significant age difference between group-A and group -B. The majority of the group- A participants were male (54.3%) and the most frequent comorbidity in this group was hypertension (45.7%). Among group A participant, the mean ±SD systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and BMI of the study subjects were 129.57 ± 14.62, 81.71 ± 5.28 and 25.17 ± 3.44 respectively. There was not any significant difference in SBP, DBP, or BMI between group-A and group B. Conclusion: The frequency of COVID-19 among male IHD patients is higher than among female ...