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Chronic disease prevalence among elderly Saudi men
OBJECTIVE: Saudi demographic composition has changed because of increased life expectancy and decreased fertility rates. Little data are available about health conditions among older adults in Saudi Arabia, who are expected to represent 20% of the population by 2050. The study aim was to assess the...
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Qassim Uninversity
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5669504/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114188 |
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author | Saquib, Nazmus Saquib, Juliann Alhadlag, Abdulrahman Albakour, Mohamad Anas Aljumah, Bader Sughayyir, Mohammed Alhomidan, Ziad Alminderej, Omar Aljaser, Mohamed Al-Mazrou, Abdulrahman |
author_facet | Saquib, Nazmus Saquib, Juliann Alhadlag, Abdulrahman Albakour, Mohamad Anas Aljumah, Bader Sughayyir, Mohammed Alhomidan, Ziad Alminderej, Omar Aljaser, Mohamed Al-Mazrou, Abdulrahman |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Saudi demographic composition has changed because of increased life expectancy and decreased fertility rates. Little data are available about health conditions among older adults in Saudi Arabia, who are expected to represent 20% of the population by 2050. The study aim was to assess the prevalence and risk factors for chronic conditions among older Saudi men. METHODS: The sample pertained to 400 men (age ≥55 years) from Buraidah, Al-Qassim. Research assistants recruited participants in all the mosques from the randomly selected neighborhoods (16 of 95). They administered a structured questionnaire that assessed self-reported disease history (heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, asthma, gastric/peptic ulcer, and cancer), and medication use; participants’ height, weight, blood pressure, and random blood glucose (glucometer) were measured. Multinomial logistic regressions were employed to assess correlates of number of chronic diseases. RESULTS: The mean and standard deviation for age and body mass index (BMI) were 63.0 ± 7.5 years and 28.9 ± 4.8 (kg/m(2)), respectively. 78% (77.8%) were overweight or obese, 35.0% were employed, 54.5% walked daily, 9.3% were current smokers, and 85.0% belonged to the middle class. The prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, ulcer, and cancer were: 71.3% 27.3%, 16.4%, 9.7%, 8.9%, and 2.0%, respectively. Of the participants, 31.0% had one, 34.5% had two or more, and 34.5% did not have any chronic diseases. The likelihood of chronic diseases increased with increased age, higher BMI, and current smoking. CONCLUSION: The chronic disease prevalence among the Saudi elderly men is substantial. |
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spelling | pubmed-56695042017-11-07 Chronic disease prevalence among elderly Saudi men Saquib, Nazmus Saquib, Juliann Alhadlag, Abdulrahman Albakour, Mohamad Anas Aljumah, Bader Sughayyir, Mohammed Alhomidan, Ziad Alminderej, Omar Aljaser, Mohamed Al-Mazrou, Abdulrahman Int J Health Sci (Qassim) Original Article OBJECTIVE: Saudi demographic composition has changed because of increased life expectancy and decreased fertility rates. Little data are available about health conditions among older adults in Saudi Arabia, who are expected to represent 20% of the population by 2050. The study aim was to assess the prevalence and risk factors for chronic conditions among older Saudi men. METHODS: The sample pertained to 400 men (age ≥55 years) from Buraidah, Al-Qassim. Research assistants recruited participants in all the mosques from the randomly selected neighborhoods (16 of 95). They administered a structured questionnaire that assessed self-reported disease history (heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, asthma, gastric/peptic ulcer, and cancer), and medication use; participants’ height, weight, blood pressure, and random blood glucose (glucometer) were measured. Multinomial logistic regressions were employed to assess correlates of number of chronic diseases. RESULTS: The mean and standard deviation for age and body mass index (BMI) were 63.0 ± 7.5 years and 28.9 ± 4.8 (kg/m(2)), respectively. 78% (77.8%) were overweight or obese, 35.0% were employed, 54.5% walked daily, 9.3% were current smokers, and 85.0% belonged to the middle class. The prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, ulcer, and cancer were: 71.3% 27.3%, 16.4%, 9.7%, 8.9%, and 2.0%, respectively. Of the participants, 31.0% had one, 34.5% had two or more, and 34.5% did not have any chronic diseases. The likelihood of chronic diseases increased with increased age, higher BMI, and current smoking. CONCLUSION: The chronic disease prevalence among the Saudi elderly men is substantial. Qassim Uninversity 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5669504/ /pubmed/29114188 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Health Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Saquib, Nazmus Saquib, Juliann Alhadlag, Abdulrahman Albakour, Mohamad Anas Aljumah, Bader Sughayyir, Mohammed Alhomidan, Ziad Alminderej, Omar Aljaser, Mohamed Al-Mazrou, Abdulrahman Chronic disease prevalence among elderly Saudi men |
title | Chronic disease prevalence among elderly Saudi men |
title_full | Chronic disease prevalence among elderly Saudi men |
title_fullStr | Chronic disease prevalence among elderly Saudi men |
title_full_unstemmed | Chronic disease prevalence among elderly Saudi men |
title_short | Chronic disease prevalence among elderly Saudi men |
title_sort | chronic disease prevalence among elderly saudi men |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5669504/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114188 |
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