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Risk Factors for Wound Infections after Vascular Surgery: Kuwait Experience
Conclusion Diabetes, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, hyperlipidemia, and chronic renal failure were all found to have a significant association with post-operative wound infections. An ticipation of wound complications in patients with these risk factors may aid in early diagnosis and treatment.
Source: Medical Principles and Practice - May 19, 2022 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research

Exposure levels of air pollution (PM2.5) and associated health risk in Kuwait.
Abstract It is well established that respiratory and cardiovascular mortality and morbidity rates are associated with poor air quality as measured by high concentrations of fine particulate matter such as PM2.5 parameters. Since such information is lacking for the State of Kuwait, this study examined the exposure levels of PM2.5 and the associated health risk as evaluated by five mortality measures embodied in ischemic heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and acute lower respiratory infection as well as two morbidity outcomes related to both cardiovascular and respiratory disea...
Source: Environmental Research - September 17, 2019 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Al-Hemoud A, Gasana J, Al-Dabbous A, Alajeel A, Al-Shatti A, Behbehani W, Malak M Tags: Environ Res Source Type: research

Air Pollution Emerges as a Top Killer Globally – Part 1
Dark pollution clouds over Cairo. Credit: Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani/IPS.By Martin KhorPENANG, Nov 11 2016 (IPS)New research is showing that air pollution is a powerful if silent killer, causing 6.5 million worldwide deaths as well as being the major cause of climate change.   Air pollution has emerged as a leading cause of deaths and serious ailments in the world.  Emissions that cause air pollution and are Greenhouse Gases are also the main factor causing climate change.Therefore, drastically reducing air pollution should now be treated as a top priority.The seriousness of this problem was highlighted by the heavy smog ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 11, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Martin Khor Tags: Environment Headlines Health air pollution Indoor air quality World Health Organization Source Type: news

Assessing neuronal density in peri ‐infarct cortex with PET: Effects of cortical topology and partial volume correction
Abstract The peri‐infarct cortex (PIC) is the site of long‐term physiologic changes after ischemic stroke. Traditional methods for delineating the peri‐infarct gray matter (GM) have used a volumetric Euclidean distance metric to define its extent around the infarct. This metric has limitations in the case of cortical stroke, i.e., those where ischemia leads to infarction in the cortical GM, because the vascularization of the cerebral cortex follows the complex, folded topology of the cortical surface. Instead, we used a geodesic distance metric along the cortical surface to subdivide the PIC into equidistant rings em...
Source: Human Brain Mapping - September 10, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Thomas Funck, Mohammed Al ‐Kuwaiti, Claude Lepage, Peter Zepper, Jeffrey Minuk, Hyman M. Schipper, Alan C. Evans, Alexander Thiel Tags: Research Article Source Type: research

Risk Factors, Subtypes, and Outcome of Ischemic Stroke in Kuwait: A National Study
Epidemiological studies of stroke burden in Kuwait are scarce. We aimed to identify the risk factors, subtypes, and outcome of ischemic stroke in the 6 major hospitals in Kuwait between 2008 and 2013.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - June 15, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Jasem Y. Al-Hashel, Al-Alya Al-Sabah, Samar F. Ahmed, Maha Al-Enezi, Nour Al-Tawheid, Zainab Al Mesailekh, Jasmine Eliwa, Raed Alroughani Source Type: research

Mean platelet volume and mean platelet volume/platelet count ratio as a risk stratification tool in the assessment of severity of acute ischemic stroke
Conclusion: MPV and MPV/PC ratio could be considered meaningful laboratory markers for the risk of acute ischemic stroke.
Source: Alexandria Journal of Medicine - March 30, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research