Cardiovascular diseases, especially hypertension followed by diabetes, were the most common underlying conditions in patients with in-hospital and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Nigeria.
Hypertension and diabetes mellitus are the most prevalent underlying medical conditions in patients suffering from cardiac arrest in Nigeria.
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Cardiovascular diseases were the major underlying medical disease in patients who suffered both IHCA and OHCA, with hypertension having the highest prevalence, this was followed by diabetes mellitus.
Kolawole et al. (Sun,) reported a other. Cardiovascular diseases, especially hypertension followed by diabetes, were the most common underlying conditions in patients with in-hospital and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Nigeria.