Association of Opium Consumption and Coronary Artery Ectasia: A Propensity Score-Matched Study

Background: Opium consumption is associated with increased risk of atherosclerosis and a hyper-inflammatory state which are suggested as contributing factors to the development coronary artery ectasia (CAE). We aimed determine if opium an independent factor CAE. This study explore relationship between Methods: In this propensity score-matched study, we enrolled patients who underwent elective angiography September 2004 March 2017 in Tehran Heart Center. studied CAE without disease (CAD) cases. The control group, normal angiograms, were selected after applying score matching match for age, sex, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, family history disease, cigarette smoking. Results: 242 pure 968 patients. prevalence was not significantly different across these groups: 17 (7.5%) group compared 76 (8.6%) (Odds ratio: 0.81; P=0.455). Amongst CAE, Markis scores consumers non-consumers (P=0.136). Conclusion: found no significant difference regarding those angiograms. addition, there correlation