Cardiovascular disease currently accounts for nearly half of non-communicable disease (NCDs).High rates of coronary heart disease in people of South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi) origin were first reported from Singapore, South Africa, and Trinidad in the 1950s.Most of the research leading to identification of major risk factors and elucidation of their role in  the etiology of atherosclerotic disease in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but their roots  reaching back to 1700s.

 

My objective of this study was Find out how much white blood cells count increase in coronary  artery disease and evaluate differential leukocytes count in coronary artery disease at Gulab Devi  Chest Hospital Lahore.

 

We used a cross sectional study involving 160 patients with coronary artery disease. The duration  of study was from November 2015 to February 2016. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 16.Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to see and analyses the data.

 

The mean age of our patients was 60.11+ 12.46 n with maximum 90 years and 17 minimum age.Male were 106 (66.25) % and female were 54(33.75) % who were participants in this study. 

 

The results from this study show that elevated initial high leukocyte and neutrophil count appear  to be an independent predictor of coronary artery disease and also associated with different  degree of coronary artery disease. WBC count has a positive correlation with coronary risk  factors and coronary artery involvement.