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Introduction: multivitamins are normally used to treat vitamin deficiencies. They may cause constipation and diarrhea. We are concerned to see the prevalence for using multivitamins supplementation and awareness of their side effects among saudi people
Methods: we conducted a cross sectional study and data collected by distributing an electronic questionnaire from 6/3 to 15/8/2017 and approved by the King Faisal University in Alhass, SA. Both gender above 18 years were included and excluded people below them. Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS
Results: this study was applied on 471persons from different areas of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Most of them were female 67.5 %.the age of our studied group was above 18 years. Most of them was healthy, pre-university, from western area and used multivitamins for weight gain. 15.5% had harmful effect and 69.6% had vitamins or minerals deficiency [51.7% iron deficiency]. 43.1% used them with no prescription and 85% used as pill. 80.8% considers them are important to their health and 35.8% believe there is no difference between using vitamins with or without medical advice. 24.9% believe they have no side effects and16.3% believe that they are sufficient for the variety and quantity of food.70.7% believe that the amount of vitamins in the food is not sufficient for the daily body and 42.5% read about vitamins from scientific books
Conclusion: the majority of the participants were using vitamins according to medical advice and there is a less percentage of people that experienced a side effect from using that supplementations
Objectives: to determine the prevalence, reasons, source of information of multivitamins supplement uses, and their side effects
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Objectives: A peptic ulcer is a common problem that occurred because of H. pylori infection and the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Epigastric pain is the most common symptom. It is characterized by burning sensation occur after meals. This study was conducted to assess peptic ulcer among patient with ischemic heart disease at TAIF city
Methods: We conducted a cross sectional study on 426 ischemic heart disease patients. The data were collected through interview with the patients and self-report questionnaire which include a set of socio-demographic variables [gender, age, sex, weight, city, smoking, drinking tea and coffee] and clinical variables [systolic, diastolic, pulse, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation] in 1/8/2017 to 17/9/2017 and approved by King Faisal medical complex in Taif city. Both genders above 40 years were included and excluded patients below them and patients without ischemic heart disease. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS
Results: Of the 426 ischemic heart disease patients at TAIF city who were investigated, 229 [53.8%] were female and 197 [46.2] were male. The mean age was 64.5 years [SD=12], ranging from 25 to 100 years. As for BMI, 297[69.7%] had overweight and obese. The mean systolic was 143.49 [SD=22.9]. The mean diastolic was 76.31. In total, 24.2% of patients were classified as Peptic ulcer and 75.8% had Non-Peptic ulcer symptoms. No statistical significance was found between the mean of Non-Peptic ulcer and Peptic ulcer patients in terms of oxygen saturation, systolic, diastolic, age, pulse and respiratory rate. A significant statistical relation was found for City that they lived in [P=.027], type of oils that he/she use it for cooking at home [P=.008], stress [P=0.002] and sex [P=.032] for Non-Peptic ulcer symptoms and Peptic ulcer symptoms
Conclusion: This study demonstrated a low prevalence of peptic ulcer among ischemic heart disease patients at TAIF city. Insomnia was associated with gender, type of oil, stress and city that they lived in but no significant association with BMI, taking aspirin, doing exercise and smoking