study the relationship between Triglyceride glucose index and heart failure patients

Inclusion Criteria:

• All Heart Failure patients attend to sohag university hospital aged above 18 year old .

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients on lipid lowering medications
• Patients on antidiabetic drugs
• Patients with comorbidities eg liver cirrhosis or malignancy

Patients will be divided into2 groups, as following:

Group (1) Heart Failure patients (100 patients) Group (2) control group(100 person)

All groups will be subjected to :

1. Complete history taking with special emphasis on Age ,Sex, Smoking, Diabetes mellitus and Hypertension.
2. A thorough clinical examination will stress on:

1- Heart rate (b.p.m.). 2-Systolic BP (mmHg). 3-BMI calculated as the ( weight (kg)/height (m)2). 3-The following investigations will be done to every subject:

1. FBG (mg/dL)
2. FTG, (mg/dL)
3. Total cholesterol (TC) (mg/dL)
4. SCr (mg/dL)
5. Echocardiography

TyG index is calculated as ln [fasting triglyceride (mg/dL) * fasting glucose (mg/dL) / 2]