Analysis on risk factors of angina and miocardial infarctin in elderly people

  Objective   To investigate the distribution and the differences of the risk factors of angina and miocar dial infarctin(MI)in elder ly.

  Methods   In a cross-sectional survey for angina and MI, 2 126 sunjects were selected from a clustered sample of the total population in 94 residential communities on the Wanshulu area, Beijing.Astandardized questionnaire was designed to collect information on the demographic characteristics.

  Results   The analysis of adjusted forward Logistic: the risk factors of angina and MI were smoking, higher body mass index(BMI), higher platelet aggregation rate, family history of coronary heart disease(CHD), the history of hypertension an current smoking, plasma fibrinogen respectively.And there were some differences between angina and MI.

  Conclusion   BMI, family history of CHD, history of hypertension and the plasma fibrinogen are risk factors of angina or MI.