ABSTRACT
Background: The relation between fruit and vegetables and mortality with implications for health policy has been stuidied to assessthe protective effect of vegetables and fruits on major non-communicable diseases [NCDs] such as cardio- vascular, respiratory gastrointestinal and cancer
Aims: To study the relationship between vegetables and fruits intake, NCDs, age group [0-18] years and gender
Methodology: It is a cross-sectional descriptive secondary data study obtained from Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, and Egyptian Ministry og Agriculture along the years 2009 to 2015 StatisticalAnalysis was done by Epi Inf 7,CDC 2016
Results: Results indicated that the amount of vegetables and fruits consumption per each year showed statistically significant relation effects on prevention of the major non-communicable the major NCDs leading cause of mortality amon Egyptians are; CVDs, digestive diseases,respiratory diseases, and cancer [66.3%, 14.16%, and 8.52%, respectively]. Multiple regression analysis for the studied predictor is in this model, beta= -3.901[P=0.007] for fruit intake in Kgm/year
Recommendation: It is to encourage public more consumption of fresh fruits for prevention of those major non-communicable diseases
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Rarely migraine may turn from episodic attacks to continuous form of headache with intermittent attacks. The present study investigated most of the clinical variables, which might play a role in such transformation. Three clinical variables appeared to be associated with chronic outcome: Duration of illness more than 10 years, heavy smoking, and hypertension. All of them were statistically significant from control cases