Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factors among Employees and Their Families of a Saudi University: An Epidemiological Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the prevalence of noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors among Saudi university employees and their families; to estimate the cardiovascular risk (CVR) amongst the study population in the following 10years.

Methods

The NCD risk factors prevalence was estimated using a cross-sectional approach for a sample of employees and their families aged ≥ 18 years old, in a Saudi university (Riyadh in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; KSA). WHO STEPwise standardized tools were used to estimate NCD risk factors and the Framingham Coronary Heart Risk Score calculator was used to calculate the CVR.

Results

Five thousand and two hundred subjects were invited, of whom 4,500 participated in the study, providing a response rate of 87%. The mean age of participants was 39

SUBMITTER: Alzeidan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5096675 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature