Abstract:
Back ground:
There is a substantial regional variation and evolvements on the type of underlying causes
of heart disease across different part of the world. Cardiac disease is the single most common
reason of admission at Jimma University Centre throughout the year. It is thus important to know
the underlying patterns of cardiac disease as it is an essential in tackling the problem both as
primary prevention as well help the institution get ready for early treatment of common
underlying cardiac diseases.
Objectives: To discern patterns of cardiac disease among patients admitted to Jimma
University medical center, medical wards from November 2016 to July, 2017.
Methodology:
A hospital based cross-sectional study was employed. Ethical clearance was obtained. A
pretested questionnaire was used to collect a data on socio-demographic data, clinical history and
physical examination. A type of underlying heart disease was made based on the standard
definition but tailored to our setup. The collected data was entered in to SPSS version 20 and was
analyzed to valuable information based on the set of variables.
Results :
A total of 278 cardiac patients were studied. The mean age was 49.6 (SD+16.8). Males
constitute 141 (50.7%) of the population. Ischemic heart disease accounted for 100 (36.8%) of
the total cardiac cases followed by Rheumatic heart disease 48 (16.3%); dilated cardiomyopathy
43 (16%) and hypertensive heart disease 40 (15%). Corpulmonale, Pericardial disease, high
output failure, and congenital heart diseases were responsible for 27 (10%), 6 (2%), 3 (1.1%) and
2(.7%) of the total cases, respectively. A total of 246 (88.5%) had a clinical heart failure
diagnosis at admission. Atrial fibrillation was present in 18.7% of study participants.
Conclusions :
Ischemic heart disease is on the rise as a major leading underlying type of heart disease in
south west of Ethiopia. Further study is needed to determine the burden this diseases at
community setting
