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Background: despite the modern life and the availability of knowledge, the prevalence of people who have had appendectomy procedures is increasing these days in Saudi Arabia in the previous years for multiple different risk factors. Knowing the prevalence of people who underwent appendectomy procedure in Saudi Arabia and comparing it with other countries could provide useful information about these risk factors and how to avoid them
Objectives: This study was done to collect information upon and investigate the prevalence people under went appendectomy procedure in Saudi Arabia
Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on 864 participants from different social media platforms to investigate the prevalence of people who have had an appendectomy procedure in Saudi Arabia from February to April 2018
Results: 41.1% of the participants knew some information about appendicitis, 8.1% of the participants have had an appendectomy procedure, 33.3% of the participants who had an appendectomy procedure suffered from post-surgery complication, 29.7% of the participants suffered from gastrointestinal diseases. Recently, 41.4% of the participants do not eat food rich in fibers and 37.7% of the participants have a positive family history of appendectomy
Conclusion: At the end of this study, there were an increased number of people who have had an appendectomy procedure in Saudi Arabia
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Background: despite the modern society and available healthy food, iron deficiency anemia is common in Saudi Arabia woman. Iron deficiency anemia is very common in women due to many risk factors like heavy menses and eating food that is not rich in iron. Knowing the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia and its associated risk factors in Saudi Arabia can provide a useful knowledge in avoiding these risk factors and improving the overall health
Objectives: Iron deficiency anemia is increasingly common worldwide. This study aims to assess the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia and its associated risk factors in women in Saudi Arabia
Methods: Across-sectional study on the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia was randomly carried out among women [1638 participants] in different social media platforms of Saudi Arabia during the period from February to April 2018
Results: In 43.5% of the participants have been suffering from iron deficiency anemia, only 10.1% had a blood transfusion as a consequence of the anemia, 42.6% have sought medical help, 32.8% had heavy menses, 48.5% had a positive family history of iron deficiency anemia, only 15.4% had hypothyroidism disease, 57.2% don't eat iron rich food and only 7.9% were pregnant
Conclusion: Our result showed that huge number of the participants was suffering from iron deficiency anemia in Saudi Arabia
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Background: Deep venous thrombosis [DVT] is a serious complication of various medical conditions including acute stroke
Objectives: We aimed to analyze the association between stroke toward hypertension [HP] and deep vein thrombosis [DVT] in northern Saudi palpitations
Methods: Cross-sectional study was performed, all incident stroke events during follow?up were identified by searching the hospital discharge diagnosis registry, and previous patient's medical records. Also, we conducted a questionnaire survey among population of North Saudi Arabia including 15 cities
Results: Our study showed that HP, and DVT which is definitely associated with stroke occurs only in approximately 5% of patients and significantly affects mortality among population from northern Saudi
Conclusion: Severe HP events with no stroke incidence is associated with increased risk of DVT especially in Male and age group above 55 years. Therefore, it may be reasonable to provide this group of patients with additional care and proper DVT prophylaxis in order to minimize the risk of stroke. Also, those patients with HP should be managed and followed regularly especially elderly patients who are at risk