PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Alfallaj, Rayan
AU  - Obaid, Sultan bin
AU  - Almousa, Hisham
AU  - Ismail, Dawood
AU  - Mahjoub, Saleh
AU  - Alanazy, Fatma
AU  - Dousary, Surayie Al
AU  - Alromaih, Saud
AU  - Aloulah, Mohammad
AU  - Alrasheed, Abdulaziz
AU  - Alroqi, Ahmad S.
AU  - Alsaleh, Saad
TI  - Demographic and clinical profile of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis in Saudi Arabia
AID  - 10.15537/smj.2023.44.4.20220947
DP  - 2023 Apr 01
TA  - Saudi Medical Journal
PG  - 401--405
VI  - 44
IP  - 4
4099  - http://smj.org.sa/content/44/4/401.short
4100  - http://smj.org.sa/content/44/4/401.full
SO  - Saudi Med J2023 Apr 01; 44
AB  - Objectives: To determine the clinical features of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis at a tertiary hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We enrolled 660 male and female participants with medical records indicating a history of chronic rhinosinusitis between 2021 and 2022. Quantitative and descriptive analyses of age, gender, nationality, presence of polyps, aspirin sensitivity, presence of urticaria, asthma, and allergies were performed.Results: Of the 660 enrolled patients, 60% (n=396) were male and 40% (n=264) were female. Additionally, 67.7% (447) had nasal polyps, 32% had a history of asthma, 10% had hypersensitivity to aspirin, 1.4% reported a history of urticaria, 9.7% reported allergies to medications, 7.9% reported food allergies, 26% reported multiple allergies, and 1.8% reported environmental allergies.Conclusion: Our study revealed the following: Samter’s triad was present in 6.9% of participants with chronic rhinosinusitis; the greatest prevalence of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps was observed among those older than 50 years. The prevalence of urticaria was not significantly different among groups; a higher rate of environmental allergies was observed among those with CRSwNP than among those without nasal polyps; and a higher prevalence of aspirin hypersensitivity was observed among those with CRSwNP than among non-polyps group.