Coronary Artery Diseases Pattern in Khat users versus Non Khat Users

Abstract

In this study, there is significant positive correlation between Duke modified score, number of vessel affected and duration of khat chewing in hours/day, number of khat chewing in days/week, duration of khat chewing in years and also significant positive correlation between number of vessels affected and duration of khat chewing. In this study, the occurence of intracoronary angiographic thrombi was higher in khat chewing group being present in 64 patients (64%) compared to 49 patients(49%) in Non khat chewing group, the difference is statistically highly significant (p<0.001). Key words: Three vessel disease, Acute coronary, syndrome, Acute myocardial infarction