Samra Hafeez, Nazish Mahmood Aisha, Imran Ali Zaidi, Arslan Shuja.
Smoking and Obesity as Risk Factors among patients with Ischemic Heart Disease - a comparative study.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(4):1654-5.

The aims and objectives of present study were to find out obesity and smoking as the risk factors of ischemic heart diseases. The results were similar as previous researchers fined in their studies. Serum Cholesterol,triglyceride, low density lipoproteins and High density lipoproteins levels of Group A, Group B and Group C were (145+/-14, 120+/-10, 112+/-20, 40+/-19), (225+/-11, 200+/-20, 202+/-20, 30+/-22), (175+/-14, 180+/-10, 184+/-20, 35+/-19) measured respectively. The positive results of heart scan in group B and group C as compared to group A were an indication of calcium deposition in the arties which may cause ischemic heart disease. Results were significant ( <0.005)

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