A Study of Serum Lipid Profile in Iraqi patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

     Hyperlipidemia is an elevated concentration of lipids in the blood. The major plasma lipids of interest are total cholesterol and the triglycerides. It is closely related to the terms hyperlipoproteinemia (elevated levels of lipoproteins). It is not a disease but a metabolic derangement that can be secondary to many diseases and can contribute too many forms of disease, most notably cardiovascular disease including myocardial infarctions (known as a heart attack, which is a disease state that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted. The resulting ischemia or oxygen shortage causes damage and potential death of heart tissue).Objectives :

1. Study the effect of acute myocardial infarction on levels of total cholesterol, triglyceride, high density cholesterol, low density cholesterol, ratios total cholesterol/HDLC and LDLC/HDLC at acute phase.
2. Comparing the levels of total cholesterol, triglyceride, high density cholesterol, low density cholesterol, ratios total cholesterol/HDLC and LDLC/HDLC at 24 hours on acute myocardial infarction with day 3 after acute myocardial infarction.
3. Comparing the levels of total cholesterol, triglyceride, high density cholesterol, low density cholesterol, ratios total cholesterol/HDLC and LDLC/HDLC at 24 hours on acute myocardial infarction with day 3 after acute myocardial infarction according to pathologic levels (lower, borderline and higher) levels of risk factors for heart diseases.
4. Study the effect of acute myocardial infarction on levels total cholesterol, triglyceride, high density cholesterol, low density cholesterol, ratios total cholesterol/HDLC and LDLC/HDLC day 1 (within 24 hours) on acute myocardial infarction as comparing with day 3 after acute myocardial infarction for males and females.
5. Comparing the levels of total cholesterol, triglyceride, high density cholesterol, low density cholesterol, ratios total cholesterol/HDLC and LDLC/HDLC at 24 hours on acute myocardial infarction with day 3 after acute myocardial infarction for the patients with diabetes mellitus and hypertension that consider risk factors for heart diseases and secondary cause of lipid abnormalities.