Birth Weight, Current Weight, and Weight Dynamism from Birth to Adulthood as Measure of Outcome in Heart Failure

Objectives: Among the non-communicable disease, the cardiovascular disease is the major cause of mortality worldwide. The risk factors include hypertension, diabetes mellitus increasing age and gender, and dyslipidemia. Recently, much attention has been paid to the impact of weight in determining the cardiovascular events and it’s role in development of chronic disease. Studies have been published for fetal origin for adult disease; one among them is barker’s hypothesis. Furthermore, epidemiological study proposes decremental effects of birth weight outside the normal range. Our study focuses on significance of birth weight, weight dynamism from birth to adulthood for correlation with heart failure (HF) in adults. Materials and Methods: Imaging studies were done with echocardiography (ECHO) of 2.5–3.5 Mhz transducers. Patients were grouped as Group A and B. Group A is asymptomatic, healthy population. Group B patients have failure signs and symptoms. Both group undergone to 2D ECHO, necessary tests, and body mass index measured. Results: In our study, we collected data from 100 subjects. Out of 50 patients in case, group age of patient ranges from 50 to 60 years. Among the control group, age of patients ranges from 50 to 60 years. Mean age of patient in case group is 58.4 ± 3.36 year. Mean age of patients in Group A is 56.6 ± 3.02 years. Birth weight among the patients with HF ranges from 1.5 to 3.5 kg. Total number of patients having low birth weight (LBW) is 44 among case group. None of the patients were having LBW in the control group and it was statistically significant ( P < 0.001). Thus indicating, there is a higher incidence of HF in patients having LBW. Mean birth weight among patients with HF was 2.14 ± 0.267 kg and among control group was 3.01 ± 0.276 kg. Incidence of HF was more among women than men group. Conclusion: The LBW associated HF and has an inverse relationship with cardiovascular function; also, adult obese population have an increased risk of HF. Similarly, severe left ventricular dysfunction had high present weight and women had high risk of HF compared to men group.