Hormonal and metabolic disorders in ischemic heart disease
Vecherskiĭ, G.A.
Kardiologiia 18(12): 36-40
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-9040 PMID: 366220 Document Number: 128059
There were under observation 440 patients with ischemic heart disease due to atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries in the phase of exacerbation of the disease and 52 patients suffering from hypertensive disease with a clinical picture of ischemic heart disease; 192 practically healthy individuals were examined as controls. Significant increase in the levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, and glucose in blood of the patients with ischemic heart disease and of those with hypertensive disease was revealed. In patients with ischemic heart disease marked by pain and disorders of the rhythm as well as in individuals with hypertensive disease hormonal-metabolic shifts, monotypical in character, were noted. It is suggested that hormonal-regulatory disorders are of primary character in atherogenesis.