Ankle systolic pressure index in non-diabetic non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A case-control study.

Introduction: Several studies have shown that mortality in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) or metabolic steatopathy is more related to cardiovascular diseases than to hepatic complications. Our work aimed to verify the relationship between this liver disease and the ankle-brachial pressure index (ABPI), which is a good screening tool for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and a reliable marker of cardiovascular risk.

Patients And Methods: A prospective sex- and age-matched case-control study was conducted in non-diabetic patients aged 30 to 70 years.

Subclinical atherosclerosis and arterial stiffness in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A case-control study in Algerian population.

Background & Aims: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) was described for the first time in 1980, and became within a few years one of the most frequent causes of chronic liver disease. However, during the last decade, many studies suggested a strong relationship between NAFLD and cardiovascular diseases including carotid atherosclerosis evoking the hypothesis that NAFLD is a factor or a marker of cardiovascular risk. In Algeria, data on this subject are rare or inexistent.

[Takayasu's arteritis and atherosclerosis].

Introduction: Chronic inflammatory diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), are accompanied by high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality secondary to accelerated and premature atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is correlated with chronic systemic inflammation independently of the factors for cardiovascular risk. Vasculitis of large arteries such as Takayasu's disease, are characterized both by chronic systemic inflammation and local parietal vascular inflammation.

[Prevalence and risk factors of sub-renal abdominal aortic aneurysm in an Algerian population aged over 60].

Introduction: The prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in the general population in our country is not known, our aim was to evaluate it in patients over 60 years of age, to specify the risk factors and to evaluate the extension of aneurysmal disease and multisite subclinical atherosclerosis.

Methods: Descriptive, transversal, study collecting the data of a systematic ultrasound screening of sub-renal AAA in subjects receiving care in two Algerian hospital structures. Epidemiological data, AAA risk factors, cardiovascular disease risk factors (CVD RF) and the personal history (cardiovascular diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and family history of AAA were collected during the screening.

[Cardiovascular risk factors in Algeria. Analysis of the subgroup from the "Africa/Middle East Cardiovascular Epidemiological" Study].

Objectives: This cross-sectional epidemiological study aimed at determining the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF; including obesity, dyslipidaemia, hypertension, diabetes and smoking), among patients from the Algerian sub-population of the "Africa/Middle East Cardiovascular Epidemiological" study attending general practitioners at primary healthcare facilities, and stratified according to their environment (rural/urban), sex and age.

Patients And Methods: The study sites, located in 10 wilayas (administrative regions), were situated in urban and rural areas (rural populations defined as living at least 50km away from urban centres, or lacking access to suburban transport).

Results: Four hundred and ten subjects (262 female, 148 male) were enrolled; 287 subjects were from an urban environment and 123 from a rural environment.