The risk estimation predicted 29.1% of the study participants to have more than 10% risk of heart attack/stroke risk at 10 years. CONCLUSION. Our study reveals a fairly good snapshot of CVDs risk factors in healthy general population. Increased prevalence of high BMI, undiagnosed HTN, diabetes...
Background: Non communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death in WHO South East Asian Region and the rising trend is attributed to a variety of factors viz smoking, sedentary life style etc. Hypertension is considered as the principle risk factor for heart attack and stroke. The...
Also, women’s health is usually looked upon in terms of their reproductive health. Even though, cardio-vascular diseases are one of the leading causes of death and disability among women, globally as well as in India, the area of research is limited while considering cardiovascular health ...
Heart failure (HF) is recognized as a complex clinical syndrome associated with a wide range of abnormalities in cardiac structure or function. Although definitions can vary [1,2,3,4], HF can be broadly described as “the failure of the heart to supply blood to either systemic or pulmonary ...
Celiac disease (CD) is one of the most common diseases, resulting from both environmental (gluten) and genetic factors [human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and non-HLA genes]. The prevalence of CD has been estimated to approximate 0.5%-1% in different parts of the world. However, the population ...
“ and “Have you ever had a heart attack or chest pain from heart disease (angina) or a stroke (cerebrovascular accident or incident)? On this basis, a dummy variable categorized as “yes” or “no” was generated, with the value “yes” depending on the respondent’s answer....
Health information on the dimensions of asthma and allergic conditions in Khuzestan Province, as a major industrial and polluted area in Iran as and the Middle East, is inadequate. This study was performed to measure the prevalence of asthma and other al
Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis and occurs when hyperuricaemia, sustained elevation of serum urate levels resulting in supersaturation of body tissues with urate, leads to the formation and deposition of monosodium urate crystals in and around the joints. Recent reports of the prevalen...
Therefore, Thailand spends a large amount of money on the health care system annually [11]. High blood pressure is a key risk factor for many diseases, including heart attack and stroke. In 2017, WHO estimated that more than one billion people had HT caused 12.8% of all deaths and ...
In the multivariable analysis, the parameters of body height (P = 0.82), prevalence of myopic maculopathy (P = 0.80), history of heart attack (P = 0.66) and bone fracture (P = 0.51), region of habitation (P = 0.63), anxiety score (P = 0.49), prevalence ...