Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity among Tabuk Citizens in Saudi Arabia

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is considered as the main cause of death worldwide. Identifying the links among CVDs risk factors can help decrease CVD-related deaths. AIM: To assess the prevalence of risk factors for CVD and their relationships among the Tabuk City population in Saudi Arab...

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Autores principales: Gutierrez, Jeneth, Alloubani, Aladeen, Mari, Mohammad, Alzaatreh, Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2018
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Cardiovascular Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5925866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29755600
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192401812010041
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author Gutierrez, Jeneth
Alloubani, Aladeen
Mari, Mohammad
Alzaatreh, Mohammad
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description BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is considered as the main cause of death worldwide. Identifying the links among CVDs risk factors can help decrease CVD-related deaths. AIM: To assess the prevalence of risk factors for CVD and their relationships among the Tabuk City population in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: A cross-sectional design was used; 432 participants in the Tabuk region were included in this study. RESULTS: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) was 5.6%, the prevalence of hypertension (HTN) was 11.1% and obesity and overweight together were 69.9%. Mean Body Mass Index (BMI), HTN, and DM increased with age. There was a correlation between BMI with HTN (r=.200, p<.001), BMI and DM (r=.149, p<.001) and DM and HTN (r=.366, p<.001). CONCLUSION: Public awareness may help in reducing the prevalence of CVD.
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spelling pubmed-59258662018-05-11 Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity among Tabuk Citizens in Saudi Arabia Gutierrez, Jeneth Alloubani, Aladeen Mari, Mohammad Alzaatreh, Mohammad Open Cardiovasc Med J Cardiovascular Medicine BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is considered as the main cause of death worldwide. Identifying the links among CVDs risk factors can help decrease CVD-related deaths. AIM: To assess the prevalence of risk factors for CVD and their relationships among the Tabuk City population in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: A cross-sectional design was used; 432 participants in the Tabuk region were included in this study. RESULTS: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) was 5.6%, the prevalence of hypertension (HTN) was 11.1% and obesity and overweight together were 69.9%. Mean Body Mass Index (BMI), HTN, and DM increased with age. There was a correlation between BMI with HTN (r=.200, p<.001), BMI and DM (r=.149, p<.001) and DM and HTN (r=.366, p<.001). CONCLUSION: Public awareness may help in reducing the prevalence of CVD. Bentham Open 2018-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5925866/ /pubmed/29755600 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192401812010041 Text en © 2018 Gutierrez et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Gutierrez, Jeneth
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Mari, Mohammad
Alzaatreh, Mohammad
Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity among Tabuk Citizens in Saudi Arabia
title Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity among Tabuk Citizens in Saudi Arabia
title_full Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity among Tabuk Citizens in Saudi Arabia
title_fullStr Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity among Tabuk Citizens in Saudi Arabia
title_full_unstemmed Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity among Tabuk Citizens in Saudi Arabia
title_short Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity among Tabuk Citizens in Saudi Arabia
title_sort cardiovascular disease risk factors: hypertension, diabetes mellitus and obesity among tabuk citizens in saudi arabia
topic Cardiovascular Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5925866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29755600
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192401812010041
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