@Article{, title={The Effect of Body Mass Index of Patients with Post Myocardial Infarction Angina on the Heart Function}, author={Hakemia Sh. Hassan * PhD}, journal={Journal of the Faculty of Medicine Baghdad مجلة كلية الطب}, volume={51}, number={1}, pages={105-108}, year={2009}, abstract={Background: Extreme obesity is recognized to be a risk factor for coronary heart disease. Itis unclear whether overweight and normal weight also poses a risk.Objective: The study aims to determine the effect of the body mass index on coronaryarteries and left ventricular functions in patients with post myocardial infarction (MI) anginaMethod: The study included 50 patients with the diagnosis of post MI angina consecutivelyadmitted to the medical ward of Iraqi Center for Heart Disease. All patients underwentcoronary artery catheterization and Echocardiography for assessment of coronary artery andleft ventricular functionsResults: The results of the study showed that there is a significant difference in impairedleft ventricular systolic pressure between normal weight and overweight patients with postMI angina .The study also revealed that (16.16%) of the patients with normal weight and(30.76%) of the patients who are over weight had three vessels disease.Conclusion: left ventricular functions reflected by ejection fraction and left ventricular wallmotion and state of coronary artery were better in normal weight patients than in over weightpatients.Key words; Body mass index; post myocardial infarction angina; heart function

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