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Rural residents in Saudi Arabia have higher prevalence of diabetes, obesity, and hypertension compared to urban residents, challenging the assumption that urbanization is the sole driver of CVD risk.
Rural residents in Saudi Arabia face higher risks of diabetes, obesity, and hypertension than their urban counterparts. This is likely due to lifestyle changes associated with modernization. Public health efforts should target rural communities with specific interventions to promote healthy eating and physical activity.
Compared to participants in urban areas, those in rural areas had higher rates of diabetes, obesity, and hypertension... Possible reasons might be related to what some researchers have called the 'urbanization of rural life'... agriculture has become mechanized and cars are used for transport... consumption of processed carbohydrates... has increased
Why this rating
Cross-sectional observational study.
Source
Demographic, behavioral, and cardiovascular disease risk factors in the Saudi population: results from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology study (PURE-Saudi)
Khalid F. AlHabib et al. · BMC Public Health · 2020
DOI 10.1186/s12889-020-09298-w
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