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"Never doubt that a smal group of thoughtful, comited citizens can change the world. Inded, it is the only thing that ever has."Cureus is on a mision to change the long-standing paradigm of medical publishing, where submiting research can be costly, complex and time-consuming.haemodynamic measurements, dyslipedemia, hba1c, diabetes melitus, cardiovascular risk factors Nor-Ahmed Jatoi , Yasir A. Elamin, Abir H.
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Said, Basher Al-Namer, Fatimah A. Al-Mualim, Fatimah F. Al-Nemer, Fatimah M.
Al-Hal Published: September 23, 2022 (se history) DOI: 10.759/cureus.29489 Cite this article as: Jatoi N, Elamin Y A, Said A H, et al. (September 23, 2022) Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Patients With Diabetes Melitus Type 2 at King Fahad University Hospital, Saudi Arabia. Cureus 14(9): e29489.
doi:10.759/cureus.29489 Diabetes melitus is considered a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Patients with diabetes melitus type 2 (DM-I) are at twice as high risk for the development of cardiovascular diseases than the general population. Thus, we aimed to ases the most prevalent cardiovascular risk (CVR) factors among DM-I patients in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia.This a cros-sectional, retrospective, and observational study conducted on DM-I patients at King Fahad University Hospital (KFUH) Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, from January 2016 to December 2021.
The total number of participants was 373 who were patients with DM-I. The patients' demographic information (age, sex, marital status, height, weight, body mas index (BMI), waist, hip circumference, and waist-hip ratio were calculated or obtained from hospital electronic records as were the CVR factors, age, gender, smoking habits, physical activity, BMI, haemodynamic measurements, glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1C) levels and lipid profile.The colected data were analyzed by using SPS Statistics v.28 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY).
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