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Table 2 Proportion of different heart diseases (excluding normal cases)

From: The spectrum of heart disease among adults at the Bamenda Regional Hospital, North west Cameroon: a semi urban setting

Diagnosis

Total (N = 615)

Male (N = 298)

Female (N = 317)

p-value

Frequency

Percentage

Frequency

Percentage

Frequency

Percentage

Hypertensive HD

253

41.1

122

40.9

131

41.3

0.200

Ischaemic heart disease

43

7.0

31

10.4

12

3.8

< 0.001*

Cor Pulmonale (CP)

51

8.3

23

7.7

28

8.8

0.973

 Acute CP

13

25.5

5

21.8

8

28.6

 

 Chronic CP

20

39.2

9

39.1

11

39.3

 

 Primary Pulmonary Hypertension

18

35.3

9

39.1

9

32.1

 

Cardiomyopathy

70

11.4

39

13.1

31

9.8

0.054

 Hypertrophic

15

21.4

6

15.4

9

29.0

 

 Dilated

54

77.2

33

84.6

21

67.7

 

 Myocarditis

1

1.4

0

0

1

3.3

 

Valvular heart disease

137

22.3

57

19.2

80

25.2

0.389

 Rheumatic heart disease

8

5.8

1

1.8

7

8.8

 

 Aortic insufficiency

28

20.4

19

33.3

9

11.3

 

 Aortic stenosis

22

16.1

10

17.5

12

15.0

 

 Mitral insufficiency

63

46.0

19

33.3

44

55.0

 

 Mitral stenosis

2

1.5

1

1.8

1

1.2

 

 Pulmonary insufficiency

1

0.7

0

 

1

1.2

 

 Pulmonary stenosis

1

0.7

1

1.8

0

0.0

 

 Polyvalvulopathy

12

8.8

6

10.5

6

7.5

 

Congenital HD

1

0.2

1

0.3

0

0.0

 Sinus venosus

1

100.0

1

100.0

0

0.0

 

Pericardial Disease

49

8.0

18

6.1

31

9.8

0.046*

 Pericarditis

18

36.7

8

44.4

10

32.3

 

 Effusive pericariditis

30

61.3

10

55.5

21

67.7

 

 Constrictive

1

2.0

1

0.1

0

0.0

 

Others

11

1.8

7

2.3

4

1.3

0.066

 Aortic aneurysm

8

72.7

6

85.7

2

50.0

 

 Isolated dilatation of LA

1

9.1

1

14.3

0

0.0

 

 Bi-auricular dilatation

2

18.2

0

0.0

2

50.0

 
  1. HD heart disease, CP cor pulmonale, LA left atrium