Introduction & Objectives: Coronary artery disease is a common cause of death over the world. The aim of this study was to compare the risk factors frequency in patients with ST-elevation MI & patients with non ST-elevation MI referring to Hamadan Ekabatan hospital in 2012.
Materials & Methods: In this cross sectional- descriptive study with referring to the files of patients, those having AMI were selected. Then, check lists were completed according to their history and laboratory. The data was analyzed by SPSS software and c2 statistical tests.
Results: In this research, 245 patients with AMI were studied. 41.2% had ST-elevation MI & 58.8% had Non ST-elevation. In male patients smoking (60%) and in female patient's diabetes mellitus, HTN (54%) had maximum relative frequency in risk factors, respectively. In this study, HTN (45.7%) had maximum frequency in risk factors & other risk factors in order of relative frequency were: Smoking (41.6%), HDL<35(41.2%), LDL>130(39.2%), TG>150 (34.4%), DM(32.8%) .
Conclusion: Hypertension & hyperlipidemia both independency and with other risk factors, are important factors in suffering AMI. Smoking and diabetes mellitus play an important role together with other risk factors.