Publications by authors named "Zainab Dakhil"
Despite the significant increase in women in academic medicine over the last 50 years, women are still under-represented in leadership positions in academia. However, there is a lack of data on the diversity of editorial boards in Middle Eastern medical journals. So, we aim to portray the diversity of editorial boards of Iraqi medical journals by conducting a cross-sectional analysis of the editorial boards' members of all Iraqi medical journals.
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- - The study explores the use of peer support interventions for managing cardiometabolic diseases, like type 2 diabetes, in low- and middle-income countries, where the effectiveness is not well established.
- - A scoping review analyzed 28 studies, with the majority from Asia, and found that while peer support is beneficial for emotional coping and disease management, definitions and implementations vary widely.
- - The findings suggest a need for standardized definitions of peer support and continuous evaluation of programs to improve future research and effectiveness in managing these diseases in LMICs.
Despite a growing burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), there remain significant barriers to researchers living in these countries regarding the initiation, progression and completion of research. These obstacles are multifactorial, ranging from a lack of general incentives, national and institutional initiatives and capacity, limited opportunities for funding, and lack of mentorship and support for the presentation and publication of research. In this perspective piece, we highlight some of the challenges we have observed from our experience as early career cardiologists in LMICs and present some potential solutions to address these issues.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNatural disasters like earthquakes have direct and indirect association with major adverse cardiac events. They can impact cardiovascular health by multiple mechanisms not to mention their impact on cardiovascular care and services. Besides the humanitarian tragedy that calls attention globally, we as part of cardiovascular community are concerned with the short and long outcomes of those who survived the recent Turkey and Syria earthquake tragedy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe challenges to academic and professional development and career advancement of women in cardiology (WIC), imposed by the pandemic, not only impinge the female cardiologists' "leaky pipeline" but also make the "leakiness" more obvious. This consensus document aims to highlight the pandemic challenges WIC face, raise awareness of the gender equity gap, and propose mitigating actionable solutions derived from the data and experiences of an international group of female cardiovascular clinicians and researchers. This changing landscape has led to the need for highly specialized cardiologists who may have additional training in critical care, imaging, advanced heart failure, or interventional cardiology.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Risk stratification is the cornerstone in managing patients with Non-ST Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes (NSTE-ACS) and can attenuate the unjustified variability in treatment and guide the intervention decision notwithstanding its impact on better healthcare resources use. This study sought to disclose real adherence to guidelines in risk stratification of NSTE-ACS patients and in adopting intervention decision in practice.
Methods: Multicentre prospective study recruited NSTE-ACS patients.
Objective: To determine the global diversity in geographical and economic class of countries contributed to group of American cardiology meetings in 2019 and 2020 (prior to and during COVID-19 pandemic).
Methods: Cross sectional recording of contributing authors' countries for abstracts of three American College of Cardiology Congress (ACC), Heart Failure Society of America meeting (HFSA) and Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting. Analysis of these contributions according to continent and World Bank Class of the contributing countries was done.
Background: As the elderly represent a substantial proportion of medical care beneficiaries, and there is limited data about age disparity in emerging countries, this study sought to investigate the impact of age on the management in patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS).
Results: Two hundred patients with NSTE-ACS enrolled prospectively, patients' data, pharmacotherapy, management strategy as well timing to catheterization were documented. Patients grouped into ≥ 65 years versus < 65 years; 32.
Background: Healthcare workforce should mirror the population in representing patients' diversity; however, in certain medical specialties like cardiology, there is a significant under-representation of females in fellowship programs. There is limited data discussing this issue in the Middle East, and up to our knowledge, no prior literature has cast a light on this subject in Iraq.
Main Text: Women represent not a minority but rather a negligible proportion of cardiologists in the Middle East, in general, and in Iraq, in particular, as over two decades, recruiting females in cardiology training never progressed.