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Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factors among Employees and Their Families of a Saudi University: An Epidemiological Study
OBJECTIVES: To assess the prevalence of noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors among Saudi university employees and their families; to estimate the cardiovascular risk (CVR) amongst the study population in the following 10years. METHODS: The NCD risk factors prevalence was estimated using a cros...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5096675/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27814369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165036 |
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author | Alzeidan, Rasmieh Rabiee, Fatemeh Mandil, Ahmed Hersi, Ahmad Fayed, Amel |
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description | OBJECTIVES: To assess the prevalence of noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors among Saudi university employees and their families; to estimate the cardiovascular risk (CVR) amongst the study population in the following 10years. METHODS: The NCD risk factors prevalence was estimated using a cross-sectional approach for a sample of employees and their families aged ≥ 18 years old, in a Saudi university (Riyadh in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; KSA). WHO STEPwise standardized tools were used to estimate NCD risk factors and the Framingham Coronary Heart Risk Score calculator was used to calculate the CVR. RESULTS: Five thousand and two hundred subjects were invited, of whom 4,500 participated in the study, providing a response rate of 87%. The mean age of participants was 39.3±13.4 years. The majority of participants reported low fruit/vegetables consumption (88%), and physically inactive (77%). More than two thirds of the cohort was found to be either overweight or obese (72%), where 36% were obese, and 59% had abdominal obesity. Of the total cohort, 22–37% were found to suffer from dyslipidaemia, 22% either diabetes or hypertension, with rather low reported current tobacco use (12%). One quarter of participants was estimated to have >10% risk to develop cardiovascular disease within the following 10-years. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of NCD risk factors was found to be substantially high among the university employees and their families in this study. |
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spelling | pubmed-50966752016-11-18 Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factors among Employees and Their Families of a Saudi University: An Epidemiological Study Alzeidan, Rasmieh Rabiee, Fatemeh Mandil, Ahmed Hersi, Ahmad Fayed, Amel PLoS One Research Article OBJECTIVES: To assess the prevalence of noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors among Saudi university employees and their families; to estimate the cardiovascular risk (CVR) amongst the study population in the following 10years. METHODS: The NCD risk factors prevalence was estimated using a cross-sectional approach for a sample of employees and their families aged ≥ 18 years old, in a Saudi university (Riyadh in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; KSA). WHO STEPwise standardized tools were used to estimate NCD risk factors and the Framingham Coronary Heart Risk Score calculator was used to calculate the CVR. RESULTS: Five thousand and two hundred subjects were invited, of whom 4,500 participated in the study, providing a response rate of 87%. The mean age of participants was 39.3±13.4 years. The majority of participants reported low fruit/vegetables consumption (88%), and physically inactive (77%). More than two thirds of the cohort was found to be either overweight or obese (72%), where 36% were obese, and 59% had abdominal obesity. Of the total cohort, 22–37% were found to suffer from dyslipidaemia, 22% either diabetes or hypertension, with rather low reported current tobacco use (12%). One quarter of participants was estimated to have >10% risk to develop cardiovascular disease within the following 10-years. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of NCD risk factors was found to be substantially high among the university employees and their families in this study. Public Library of Science 2016-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5096675/ /pubmed/27814369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165036 Text en © 2016 Alzeidan et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Alzeidan, Rasmieh Rabiee, Fatemeh Mandil, Ahmed Hersi, Ahmad Fayed, Amel Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factors among Employees and Their Families of a Saudi University: An Epidemiological Study |
title | Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factors among Employees and Their Families of a Saudi University: An Epidemiological Study |
title_full | Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factors among Employees and Their Families of a Saudi University: An Epidemiological Study |
title_fullStr | Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factors among Employees and Their Families of a Saudi University: An Epidemiological Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factors among Employees and Their Families of a Saudi University: An Epidemiological Study |
title_short | Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factors among Employees and Their Families of a Saudi University: An Epidemiological Study |
title_sort | non-communicable disease risk factors among employees and their families of a saudi university: an epidemiological study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5096675/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27814369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165036 |
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