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Nephrol Dial Transplant (2001) 16: 2132-2135
© 2001 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

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Impact of diabetes in renal diseases in Saudi Arabia

Abdullah A. Al-Khader

Department of Nephrology, Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Exercise is lacking in urban dwellers ... hence the incidence of ailments is high among city dwellers ... and in correlation with these high incidences, their need for the (medical) profession rises.

Al Muqaddama pp. 739–742

Ibn Khaldoun,

Arab Sociologist and Historian (1332–1406)

Diabetes in the Saudi population

The prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in the Saudi population is high and 90% of diabetics suffer from Type II DM. An epidemiological study of Saudi subjects aged 15 years or older, from different regions of the kingdom found that the age-adjusted prevalence of DM (using WHO criteria) was higher in urban areas (males 12%, females 14%) than rural areas (males 7%, females 7.7%) [1]. The highest prevalence was in urban females aged 51–60 years (49%). In rural females of similar age the prevalence was 29%. Some 56% of those found to be diabetic in this survey had no prior knowledge that they had DM. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Obesity in the Saudi population

Diabetic nephropathy in Saudi Arabia

Diabetic nephropathy in end-stage renal disease patients

Post-transplant diabetes

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