The clinical features of 44154 patients (25635 men (58.1%) and 18519 women (41.1%) on hospital admission were analyzed.
40.8% of the patients were hospitalized for coronary deficiency, 16.5% for valvular cardiopathy, 4.8% for cardiomiopthy, 16.9% for arrhythmia and conduction disturbance, 3.6% for essential hypertension, 2.5% for stroke and 14.9% for various pathologies.
The prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, smoking, obesity and dyslipidemia was 29.9%, 30.3%, 66.9%, 11.9%, and 30.2% respectively in the men and 43.5%, 30.2%, 3.5%, 14.6%, and 27.1% respectively in women.
With this risk factor profile Tunisia has to implement a national strategy of primary prevention and heart health promotion in addition to the efforts recently made in secondary prevention of some chronic disease such as hypertension, diabetes, and smoking.