Abstract

This paper aims to describe of risk factors for (HDL-c) on Iraqi children with a heart structure problem at birth and know the type of correlation between variables. A cross-sectional and retrospective descriptive study was conducted in different hospitals in Iraq, from January 2020 to January 2021, for children aged 5 to 15 years. In this study, 130 children were collected from different hospitals in Iraq Baghdad and were distributed into two groups (a patient group for 70 patients) and (a control group for 60 patients), and the ages of the children in this study ranged from 5 to 15 years. The most common risk factors in this group of conditions were family history, high cholesterol, and heart structure problem. The results which found in this study. Decrease in patient outcomes according to HDL-C with 30.1 ± 1.9 compared to the control group 44.3 ± 3.8. Where a statistically significant relationship was found between the variables with p value 0.00533, LDL-C mg/dL of group patient (136.5±4.4) as for the control group (116.2±7.2). In the research, we concluded the risk factors were found for LDL–C mg/dL, HDL–C mg/dL, and -cholesterol mg/dL, followed by obesity and lifestyle, where – a statistically significant relationship was found between most of the paragraphs of this study and the causes of death.

Keywords

LDL, HDL, TC, Risk, Patient, Children