Patients with enteritis are more likely to have a heart attack
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Inflammatory bowel patients are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease, according to a recent study conducted by US researchers.
According to the American medical site "Medical Xpress", after analyzing medical data involving more than 17.5 million patients, researchers found that people with inflammatory bowel disease were at high risk for a heart attack, regardless of whether or not they had traditional risk factors For heart disease such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure and smoking.
The researchers pointed out that people aged between 18 and 24 are the most vulnerable to the disease, according to research presented at the 67th annual scientific session of American heart disease.
The younger patients with bowel inflammation have about nine times the risk of a heart attack than their peers in the same age group who did not have the disease, said Dr Mohammed Banhwar, a professor of internal medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.
Different studies have shown that people with other chronic inflammatory conditions, such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, are at higher risk for heart disease.
"The results of this study open the door to further research into the relationship between cardiovascular disease, including the use of anti-inflammatory drugs to control cardiovascular risk in patients with inflammatory bowel syndrome