Altaleb Fatimah Fahad, Alshammari Othman Mashfi, Alanazi Hala Mohammed, Aljaber Dina Anwar, Alanazi Arwa Bader, El-Fetoh Nagah Mohamed Abo, Mohammed Nesreen Ali, Aljaber Hadil Anwar
Intern, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia.
Associate Professor of Community Medicine, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia.
Electron Physician. 2017 Oct 25;9(10):5459-5464. doi: 10.19082/5459. eCollection 2017 Oct.
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are among the main causes of premature death and hospital admission worldwide, constituting a great economic burden on health care systems. Additionally, thyroid diseases may exert a deleterious effect on the outcomes of CVD patients.
This study was conducted to identify the pattern and factors associated with CVD distribution and the relation with thyroid dysfunction in the study population.
This cross sectional study was conducted on 181 participants in the cardiac center in Arar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), from September 2016 to March 2017. A questionnaire was designed for collecting data about socio-demographic variables, smoking, types of CVD, and thyroid dysfunction among participants.
Findings showed that 42.5% of the participants were hypertensive, 11.6% had myocardial infarction, 8.9% were ischemic and 7.2 % had arrhythmia. The majority of participants (80.6%) were euthyroid. In contrast, 13.3% of the participants had hypothyroidism and 6.1% were hyperthyroid. Most of the studied factors had no significant effect on CVD distribution while smoking showed a remarkable variation among patients with different CVD types (p=0.013). Data were analyzed by SPSS version 15, using descriptive statistics and Chi-square test.
Our findings indicated the urgent need for stressing on tobacco use control measures and increasing public awareness about hazards of tobacco especially among CVD patients.
心血管疾病（CVD）是全球过早死亡和住院的主要原因之一，给医疗保健系统带来了巨大的经济负担。此外，甲状腺疾病可能对CVD患者的预后产生有害影响。
本研究旨在确定研究人群中与CVD分布相关的模式和因素以及与甲状腺功能障碍的关系。
本横断面研究于2016年9月至2017年3月在沙特阿拉伯王国阿拉尔的心脏中心对181名参与者进行。设计了一份问卷，用于收集参与者的社会人口统计学变量、吸烟情况、CVD类型和甲状腺功能障碍的数据。
研究结果显示，42.5%的参与者患有高血压，11.6%患有心肌梗死，8.9%患有缺血性疾病，7.2%患有心律失常。大多数参与者（80.6%）甲状腺功能正常。相比之下，13.3%的参与者患有甲状腺功能减退症，6.1%患有甲状腺功能亢进症。大多数研究因素对CVD分布没有显著影响，而吸烟在不同CVD类型的患者中表现出显著差异（p=0.013）。数据采用SPSS 15版进行分析，使用描述性统计和卡方检验。
我们的研究结果表明，迫切需要强调烟草使用控制措施，并提高公众对烟草危害的认识，尤其是在CVD患者中。
