Allo Rami, Tariq Mohammed, Natheer Munther, Hussein Hanaa
Department of Clinical Nursing Sciences, College of Nursing, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq.
J Educ Health Promot. 2024 Jul 11;13:218. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1266_23. eCollection 2024.
Rapid socioeconomic progress has greatly affected the world, and the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) has increased. The growing burden of CVDs has become a major public health issue. The study aimed to identify the main risk factors that lead to the contribution of heart attacks among young people in Mosul City, Iraq.
The study was dependent on achieving the objectives through a descriptive study design that was performed in the emergency medical wards of three teaching hospitals in Mosul City, Iraq. The sample was the convenience of patients who were admitted to the emergency department and who had signs and symptoms of heart attacks during the period of data collection starting from November 1, 2022, until April 1, 2023. The participants were 247 cases recorded during that period, and their ages ranged between 20 and 45 years. The tool used in this study from the World Health Organization (WHO) is related to risk factors for CVDs and consists of eleven items.
Approximately seventy percent of the study sample was male, 68.4% were less than 39 years, and 35.6% of them were diagnosed with heart diseases (angina and myocardial infarction) that require hospitalization, and there are several risk factors in the study sample, the most prominent of which were physical inactivity (88.6%), following unhealthy diet patterns (87.5%) and hypertension (69.3%).
The study concluded that the risky health factors that contribute to the occurrence of heart attacks among young people in this study are hypertension, high blood cholesterol, unhealthy diet, heavy smoking, stress, family history, alcohol drinking, obesity, and diabetes mellitus (DB)
社会经济的快速发展对世界产生了巨大影响，心血管疾病（CVD）的风险增加。心血管疾病日益加重的负担已成为一个主要的公共卫生问题。本研究旨在确定导致伊拉克摩苏尔市年轻人心脏病发作的主要风险因素。
本研究通过描述性研究设计来实现目标，该研究在伊拉克摩苏尔市的三家教学医院的急诊病房进行。样本是在2022年11月1日至2023年4月1日数据收集期间入住急诊科且有心脏病发作体征和症状的患者。在此期间记录了247例参与者，他们的年龄在20至45岁之间。本研究使用的来自世界卫生组织（WHO）的工具与心血管疾病的风险因素有关，由11个项目组成。
研究样本中约70%为男性，68.4%年龄小于39岁，其中35.6%被诊断患有需要住院治疗的心脏病（心绞痛和心肌梗死），研究样本中存在多种风险因素，其中最突出的是缺乏身体活动（88.6%）、遵循不健康的饮食模式（87.5%）和高血压（69.3%）。
该研究得出结论，本研究中导致年轻人心脏病发作的健康风险因素包括高血压、高胆固醇、不健康饮食、大量吸烟、压力、家族病史、饮酒、肥胖和糖尿病（DB）
