Publications by authors named "Rabia Mubarak"
Article Synopsis
- Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and cancers are major causes of death in Western Europe, accounting for about 55% of total deaths in 2021.
- The study analyzed data from 24 countries, identifying risk factors, age, sex differences, and regional disparities in mortality rates due to these diseases over a 30-year period.
- While CVD death rates have significantly decreased over time, the study found that Finland has the highest burden of CVDs and Monaco the highest cancer-related deaths, with older males being particularly affected.
Objective: To shed light on the association of age, smoking, educational status, family history, diabetes and kidney diseases with hypertension.
Methods: The case-control study was conducted at three different medical centres of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, from December 2016 to July 2017. Data from 549 hypertensive cases and 1451 normotensive controls was collected using a detailed questionnaire and through personal interviews by adopting nonprobability consecutive sampling technique.