Coronary arteries were studied on 110
postmortem human hearts during January 2000 to December 2001 in the department
of Anatomy and Microbiology, Bangladesh Medical College. Hearts were collected
from mortuary of Dhaka Medical College. These were the hearts of deceased persons
suspected of abnormal deaths. Atherosclerosis was found in 49(44.5%) samples,
among which 37 (5.%) were from male and 12(26.7%) from female hearts. This
difference was significant (P&lt;0.01). Atherosclerosis was present in
11(10.0%), 22(20.0%) and 16(14.5%) samples on right coronary artery, anterior
descending and circumflex branch of left coronary artery irrespective of sex.
Grade I lesion was higher among lower age group and grade II lesion was higher
among higher age group. It may be concluded that atherosclerosis was present in
almost half of the studied subjects and was found more in anterior descending
arteries and among in males. Extent and severity of atherosclerosis increased
with age.

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Key
words: Heart, arthrosclerosis,
gender, Bangladesh&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(Bangladesh
Medical J 2003;8(1):26-29)

Atherosclerosis in 110 postmortem hearts of people of Bangladesh PDF

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