Electrocardiographic Changes in Mild, Moderate and Severe Anaemia

Abstract

Anaemia is one of the most common nutritional burden of world. Anaemia is one of the common most leading causes of disabilities and death. Out of all complications of anaemia, cardiovascular complications are easily diagnosed by the safest and cheapest investigation, which is ECG. We found majority of the patients with anaemia are having ECG changes. In current study, we found 186 (62%) patients who had ECG changes associated with anaemia. There were only 114 (38%) patients who didn’t have any ECG changes. Majority of the patients in our study had shown ECG changes, with significant association between the severity of anaemia and presence of ECG changes. There were specific associations between the severity of anaemia and presence of ST segment changes, T wave changes, presence of LVH and presence of prolonged “QT” interval.