Coronary artery disease

Coronary artery disease

Coronary artery disease remains an issue of concern in the global healthcare context.  The morbidity and mortality rates of coronary artery disease patients manifest the essence of disease complexity and extremity (Menotti et al., 2019).  The prevention criterion for the coronary disease should focus on the indicators of morbidity and mortality purposely to ensure positive results are obtained.

Morbidity indicators

Morbidity is the condition of being diseased. It is determined by diverse factors cited as the morbidity indicators. In the context of the coronary artery, age is a pertinent indicator of the disease morbidity.  Adults are more subjected to the disease compared to children based on immune system strength between the age brackets. Furthermore, sex is another core morbidity indicator of coronary artery disease (Rajabi et al., 2019). The disease manifestations differ between sexes. Females are more likely to contract the disease than their male counterparts.  Smoking is another morbidity indicator of coronary artery disease.  Smokers are likely to contract the disease faster than non-smokers. This is a clear indication of reduced cases of coronary artery disease among non-smokers. Moreover, infectious diseases and diet have been highlighted as morbidity indicators of heart diseases. People with heart-related diseases are at high risk of contradicting coronary artery complications. Besides, cholesterol diets subject individuals to a high risk of coronary artery complications.

Mortality indicators

The quality of the primary care given to people with coronary heart disease is measured by this indicator. Blood pressure and control of cholesterol are too important indicators of the rate of mortality and coronary heart disease patients. A controlled experience showed that the rate of deaths in coronary heart disease patients reduced when their blood pressure and cholesterol accumulation was controlled. Emergency hospitalization is a comparison of the number of people per 1000 in the population that are involved in emergency hospitalizations out of coronary heart disease. The indicator is, however, adjusted for age and sex (Rajabi et al., 2019). Moreover, it connects the primary tom the secondary care. Coronary patients of all ages under ICD-10 codes I20–I125 for ischemic heart disease are included in this indicator. More diverse codes are, however, included for more competent coverage and greater consistency with related indicators of mortality resulting from coronary artery disease.

In conclusion, there are different indicators that use collected data from the hospitals as well as the records from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics to assess the mortality and morbidity of coronary artery disease. The organization of the data through the different variables helps in the tracing of trends of the disease.

References

Menotti, A., Puddu, P. E., Tolonen, H., Adachi, H., Kafatos, A., & Kromhout, D. (2019). Age at death of major cardiovascular diseases in 13 cohorts. The seven countries study of cardiovascular diseases 45-year follow-up. Acta cardiologica, 74(1), 66-72.

Rajabi, M. R., Razzaghof, M. R., & Kashani, H. H. (2020). Hyperhomocysteinemia and increased risk of coronary artery disease in Iranian patients with diabetes mellitus type II: a cross-sectional study. Comparative Clinical Pathology, 29(1), 223-230.