Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally. Carotid artery intimal thickening is a marker of early atherosclerosis that can be assessed non invasively. The present study is done to compare carotid intima media thickness in hypertensive and non hypertensive smokers. Material & methods- case control study was conducted among 100 patients with habit of smoking both hypertensive and non-hypertensive who visited the department during the time period one year. Each patient underwent ultra-sonographic scanning of carotid arteries. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 23.0. Results –In this study maximum subjects were in the age group of 51-60 years (36%). The number of male and female were equal in case and control group. Mean value of cIMT was found to be significant higher in cases (0.870 ± 0.20) as compared to control (0.725 ± 0.17) group. The difference in mean values of cIMT for females was found to be significant (P < 0.05) for cases in comparison to controls Conclusion – The present study and its observations makes it imminent that Hypertension affects every cIMT measurement of the study subjects.cIMT is an effective marker in finding out the risk of artherscelerosis.

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