Abstract
Faisalabad is third most populous and industrial city, known as Manchester of Pakistan. Most of the people
working in the industries of this city are exposed to highly polluted and toxic environment. Lead is a natural metal
found in the environment and its contamination exceeds the range of normal limits by human activities causing a
lot of health hazardous. An effort is made to assess the association of anemia and cholesterol with the
development of IHD among industrial workers who are exposed to the lead polluted environment. For this
purpose the study was conducted during a period of one year (2006-7) and the respondents were the patients
from industrial area coming to the hospitals visiting at DHQ Hospital Faisalabad.
Only those patients were selected for this study who were diagnosed with clinical symptoms of lead toxicity. The
demographic features of the respondents regarding their age, gender, marital status, family size, education,
income, duration on job, working place and nature of work were considered. The data of this study was
categorical nature and this measures the associations among exposure to the environment with lead toxicity and
causative risk factors i.e., cholesterol level, Hb level (anemia) causing ischemic heart disease (IHD) were studied.
