| Autor: |
Yumna Abdulmalek Bokhari, Rana Jamal Nahas, Asrar Abdullah Niyazi, Amjad Zaki Alharbi, Renad Abdulwahab AlGaedy, Shereen Helmy Ahmed |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
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| Zdroj: |
International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science. 6:506-511 |
| ISSN: |
2455-8737 |
| Popis: |
Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are one of the critical yet preventable non-communicable diseases. Based on the World Health Organization (WHO) reports on non-communicable conditions in 2010, millions of people were killed by non-communicable diseases in 2008, resulting in deaths that occurred before the age of 60 (1). Our aim in this study is to provide descriptive epidemiology and to estimate the public’s knowledge towards CVD types, risk factors, and warning symptoms of heart attack or stroke. Methodology: The study was approved by Ibn Sina National College of Medical Sciences research committee in November of 2019.This is a cross-sectional analytic study conducted among the Saudi community in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia from November 2019 to April 2020. A total of 635 respondents contributed to fill the self-administered questionnaire. Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 20 was used. The degree of association was tested using Chi-square. A statistically significant association was taken at P |
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OpenAIRE |
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