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Noncommunicable Diseases and Hospital Utilization in Kuwait: A Generalizable Approach Using the World Health Survey
Conclusions: We estimated the substantial burden on curative services associated with NCDs in Kuwait through a standardized approach to compare hospital utilization rates associated with various NCDs that is generalizable to more than 70 countries that participated in the World Health Survey.
Source: Medical Principles and Practice - August 25, 2022 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research

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

The Genetic and Clinical Significance of Fetal Hemoglobin Expression in Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is phenotypically heterogenic. One major genetic modifying factor is the patient ’s level of fetal hemoglobin (HbF). The latter is determined by the patient’s β-globin gene cluster haplotype and cis-acting and trans-acting single gene polymorphisms (SNP) at other distant quantitative trait loci (QTL). The Arab/India haplotype is associated with persistently high HbF levels and also a relatively mild phenotype. This haplotype carries the Xmn1 (C/T) SNP, rs 7482144 in the HBG2 locus. The major identified trans-acting QTL contain SNPs residing in the BCL11A in chromosome 2 and the HMIP locus on ...
Source: Medical Principles and Practice - September 3, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research