ABSTRACT
Background: Obesity often coexists with hypertension [HTN] and a linear relationship between blood pressure [BP] values and weight was observed
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence rate of prehypertension and hypertension and to estimate the coexistence of prehypertension and hypertension and obesity in young adults in Arar, Saudi Arabia
Materials and Methods: This was a cross sectional study. The study subjects were selected from health young adults attending 5 randomly selected primary health care centers in Arar city, the capital of the Northern Province of KSA. Participants were given a predesigned and pretested questionnaire to collect the relevant data
Results: Among the studied participants, Fifty [52.1%] of females and 58.8% of males were pre-hypertensive and 1.5% from males were hypertensive. 37.9% of the studied participants were obese and same percentage were overweight. 18.2% of obese were hypertensive or pre-hypertensive and 40.9% of overweight were hypertensive or pre-hypertensive. While 3% of the underweight were hypertensive or pre-hypertensive and 3% were not [P<0.05]
Conclusion: In young adults in Arar, KSA. 37.9% of the studied participants were obese and same percentage were overweight. About half of females and more than half of males were pre-hypertensive and small percentage of males were hypertensive. Obesity was associated with pre-hypertension and hypertension. So education sessions should be carried out to educate the public specially adolescents and young adult population
ABSTRACT
The world's population is aging and the number of people who are >/= 60 years old increased worldwide. The elderly population is susceptible to various benign and malignant diseases. Gastrointestinal diseases are among the common health problems that affect the elderly
Aim of the study: to identify the pattern of gastrointestinal diseases among elderly patients in Arar city [KSA] and the relation with gender in the study population
Subjects and methods: a cross sectional study was conducted in five randomly selected primary healthcare centers in Arar city [KSA], from September 2016 to March 2017. It included 118 elderly patients. A questionnaire was designed for data collection about socio-demographic variables, smoking, BMI, chronic diseases and types of gastrointestinal diseases among participants
Results: findings showed that all participants suffered from dental problems and 24.6% had gum problems. Other diseases affected various proportions of the studied elderly population including loss of appetite, gastric regurgitation, chronic constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic colitis, peptic and duodenal ulceration, liver cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, cholecystitis, gall stones, pills, anal fissure and GIT tumors. Statistically significant differences were found between males and females regarding having piles, gall stones and anorexia. On contrary, all other GIT diseases showed insignificant differences between males and females
Conclusion: different types of GIT diseases were found among the participants with varying rates. Significant gender differences were observed in some diseases [piles, gall stones and loss of appetite] while most of the studied GIT diseases showed insignificant differences between both sexes