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| SERUM URIC ACID LEVELS IN FEMALE PATIENTS OF ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE
AIJAZ AHMED OURESHI, SAEED A MAHAR, ABU TALIB, MUHAMMAD ASLAM ABBASI. ABSTRACT Objective: To find out possible relationship between serum uric acid and incidence of ischemic heart disease. Design: Comparative study of serum uric acid in 30 patients of IHD with 11 age and body mass index matched control subjects. Setting: Basic Medical Science Institute, JPMC, Karachi. Result: Serum uric acid was found to be significantly high (P<0.001) in hypertensive with ischemic heart disease and in hypertensive. The mean values were also found to be high in normotensives with IHD but the difference was statistically non-significant. Conclusion: Serum uric acid levels is strongly related to incidence of ischemic heart disease.
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