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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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Autores principales: Alzeidan, Rasmieh, Rabiee, Fatemeh, Mandil, Ahmed, Hersi, Ahmad, Fayed, Amel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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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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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.
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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
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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
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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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