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Age and gender differences in the prevalence of chronic diseases and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk scores in adults in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia

AlJohara M. AlQuaiz, Ambreen Kazi, Abdulaziz A. Alodhayani, Aljohara Almeneessier, Khaled M. AlHabeeb and Amna R. Siddiqui
Saudi Medical Journal May 2021, 42 (5) 526-536; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.5.20200684
AlJohara M. AlQuaiz
From the Princess Nora Bent Abdullah Chair for Women’s Health Research (AlQuaiz, Kazi, Almeneessier, AlHabeeb, Siddiqui), Deanship of Research Chairs Program, and from the Department of Family & Community Medicine (AlQuaiz, Kazi, AlOdhayani), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
MD, MRCGP
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Ambreen Kazi
From the Princess Nora Bent Abdullah Chair for Women’s Health Research (AlQuaiz, Kazi, Almeneessier, AlHabeeb, Siddiqui), Deanship of Research Chairs Program, and from the Department of Family & Community Medicine (AlQuaiz, Kazi, AlOdhayani), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
MCPS, FCPS
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  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Abdulaziz A. Alodhayani
From the Princess Nora Bent Abdullah Chair for Women’s Health Research (AlQuaiz, Kazi, Almeneessier, AlHabeeb, Siddiqui), Deanship of Research Chairs Program, and from the Department of Family & Community Medicine (AlQuaiz, Kazi, AlOdhayani), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Aljohara Almeneessier
From the Princess Nora Bent Abdullah Chair for Women’s Health Research (AlQuaiz, Kazi, Almeneessier, AlHabeeb, Siddiqui), Deanship of Research Chairs Program, and from the Department of Family & Community Medicine (AlQuaiz, Kazi, AlOdhayani), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Khaled M. AlHabeeb
From the Princess Nora Bent Abdullah Chair for Women’s Health Research (AlQuaiz, Kazi, Almeneessier, AlHabeeb, Siddiqui), Deanship of Research Chairs Program, and from the Department of Family & Community Medicine (AlQuaiz, Kazi, AlOdhayani), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Amna R. Siddiqui
From the Princess Nora Bent Abdullah Chair for Women’s Health Research (AlQuaiz, Kazi, Almeneessier, AlHabeeb, Siddiqui), Deanship of Research Chairs Program, and from the Department of Family & Community Medicine (AlQuaiz, Kazi, AlOdhayani), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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vol. 42 no. 5 526-536
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.5.20200684
PubMed 
33896782

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received November 26, 2020
  • Accepted March 15, 2021
  • Published online April 25, 2021.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. AlJohara M. AlQuaiz, MD, MRCGP,
  2. Ambreen Kazi, MCPS, FCPS⇑,
  3. Abdulaziz A. Alodhayani, MD, SBFM,
  4. Aljohara Almeneessier, MD, ABFM,
  5. Khaled M. AlHabeeb, BDS and
  6. Amna R. Siddiqui, FCPS, PhD
  1. From the Princess Nora Bent Abdullah Chair for Women’s Health Research (AlQuaiz, Kazi, Almeneessier, AlHabeeb, Siddiqui), Deanship of Research Chairs Program, and from the Department of Family & Community Medicine (AlQuaiz, Kazi, AlOdhayani), College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Ambreen Kazi, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: akamran{at}ksu.edu.sa ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6807-8555
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Saudi Medical Journal May 2021, 42 (5) 526-536; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2021.42.5.20200684
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