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Current health status and its risk factors of the Tsarang villagers living at high altitude in the Mustang district of Nepal

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • بيانات النشر:
      BioMed Central Ltd
    • الموضوع:
      2018
    • Collection:
      NAOSITE: Nagasaki University Academic Output SITE / 長崎大学 学術研究成果リポジトリ
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      BACKGROUND: Epidemiology of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity and diabetes mellitus (DM) are influenced by multiple hosts and environmental factors. This study aims to investigate the prevalence of NCDs and determine their risk factors among the adults residing in an isolated village situated at a rural highland of Nepal. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in a village located at 3570 m. Each 188 randomly selected participants of age???18 years old answered a questionnaire and took a full physical exam that included biomedical measurements of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c). RESULTS: The prevalence of intermediate hyperglycemia and DM was 31.6% and 4.6% respectively, and the prevalence of hypoxemia (SpO2
    • File Description:
      application/pdf
    • ISSN:
      18806805
    • Relation:
      Journal of Physiological Anthropology; 37; 20; https://nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/1354/files/PA37_20.pdf
    • الدخول الالكتروني :
      https://nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/1354/files/PA37_20.pdf
    • Rights:
      c The Author(s). 2018 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsbas.728AE3E8