Acute myocardial infarction in a 17-year-old Bangladeshi boy-possibility of existence of a Bangladeshi paradox

Prabir Kumar Das, F. Hossain, M.R. Karim

Abstract


Coronary artery disease (CAD) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are  diseases of older age. AMI is uncommon in young age  and rare in adolescence. A seventeen years old Bangladeshi boy developing acute anterior wall MI is described here. Risk factor analysis for CAD revealed absence of most of the conventional risk factors, like  smoking, diabetes mellitus, hypertension. An  elevated lipoprotein(a) and a low HDL cholesterol  was detected in  blood  which are emerging risk factors  of  CAD  in young Bangladeshis.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5430/crim.v3n3p62

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Case Reports in Internal Medicine

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