The ticking time bomb in lifestyle-related diseases among women in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries; review of systematic reviews

Autor: Hussain Abdulrahman Al-Omar, Azeem Majeed, Filippos T. Filippidis, Abdul-Majeed Salmasi, Salman Rawaf, Mashael K. Alshaikh
Přispěvatelé: Imperial College Trust
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Gerontology
Disease
0302 clinical medicine
SAUDI-ARABIA
Risk Factors
Noncommunicable diseases
Epidemiology
030212 general & internal medicine
Public
Environmental & Occupational Health
Aged
80 and over
education.field_of_study
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
Diabetes
Smoking
Middle Aged
Cardiovascular disease
Metabolic syndrome
PREVALENCE
Systematic review
1117 Public Health And Health Services
Cardiovascular Diseases
CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE
Hypertension
UNIVERSITY-STUDENTS
Female
Public Health
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Research Article
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Population
030209 endocrinology & metabolism
Middle East
03 medical and health sciences
Environmental health
Diabetes Mellitus
medicine
Humans
TOBACCO SMOKING
Obesity
education
Life Style
Aged
Science & Technology
Physical inactivity
business.industry
Public health
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
lcsh:RA1-1270
DIABETES-MELLITUS
medicine.disease
MIDDLE-EAST
PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY
HEALTH-CARE
RISK-FACTORS
Biostatistics
business
Systematic Reviews as Topic
Zdroj: BMC Public Health
BMC Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-17 (2017)
ISSN: 1471-2458
Popis: Background This study aims to review all published systematic reviews on the prevalence of modifiable cardiovascular disease risk factors among women from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC). This is the first review of other systematic reviews that concentrates on lifestyle related diseases among women in GCC countries only. Method Literature searches were carried out in three electronic databases for all published systematic reviews on the prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors in the GCC countries between January 2000 and February 2016. Results Eleven systematic reviews were identified and selected for our review. Common reported risk factors for cardiovascular disease were obesity, physical inactivity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and hypertension. In GCC countries, obesity among the female population ranges from 29 to 45.7%, which is one of the highest rates globally, and it is linked with physical inactivity, ranging from 45 to 98.7%. The prevalence of diabetes is listed as one of the top ten factors globally, and was reported with an average of 21%. Hypertension ranged from 20.9 to 53%. Conclusions The high prevalence of lifestyle-related diseases among women population in GCC is a ticking time bomb and is reaching alarming levels, and require a fundamental social and political changes. These findings highlight the need for comprehensive work among the GCC to strengthen the regulatory framework to decrease and control the prevalence of these factors.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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