This change contributed to increase the risk for developing heart disease especially among women in different age groups. In addition, the prevalence of heart disease risk factors is different in women and shoul
Diabetes is one such non-communicable chronic disease that poses a threat with respect to both mortality and morbidity. This study investigated the socio-economic determinants and inequalities in the prevalence of diabetes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia according to data collected from the 2018 ...
The incidence of HF was 10.4% in 1196 patients aged 0–16 years (60% of whom were infants) primarily diagnosed with congenital or acquired heart disease and prospectively indexed at a single center in Belgium over a 10-year period (Table1) [17]. Congenital heart disease was the HF etiolog...
27 on Social Statistics: persons with disabilities and chronic diseases (Government of Hong Kong Special Adminstrative Region, 2001). Teng, G. G. et al. Mortality due to coronary heart disease and kidney disease among middle-aged and elderly men and women with gout in the Singapore Chinese ...
in Saudi Arabia indicated that diabetes prevalence was concentrated among the poor and among people with less education. They also concluded that education-related inequality was higher than income-related inequality64. It is worth noting that 97% of the participants underwent blood sampling, which ...
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Covid-19 Saudi Arabia South Asians 1. Introduction The coronavirus disease 19 (Covid-19) global pandemic is an on-going public health catastrophe that has infected>25 million individuals and has resulted to>840,000 casualties as of August 30, 2020, based on John Hopk...
BACKGROUND: Despite the prevalence of overweight and obesity and increases in associated diseases such as diabetes and heart disease in the Saudi population, no studies have addressed the spread of obesity among Saudi police officers. Therefore, the present study aimed to assess the prevalence of ...
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 ...
The economic growth has paralleled the rise of diabetes and its complications in multiethnic population of United Arab Emirates (UAE). Previous studies have shown that characteristics of diabetes is variable across different ethnicities. The objective of this study was to compare diabetes prevalence and...
Sickle cell anemia prevalence depression public health policy Jazan region Saudi Arabia Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an autosomal recessive ailment resulting from genetic mutations in the beta-globin chain that causes the formation of hemoglobin S [1]. Hemoglobin S is a mutated form of...