Prevalence and Risk Factors of Dyspnea among General Population of Arar City, Kingdom Saudi Arabia | ||||
| The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine | ||||
| Article 12, Volume 72, Issue 2, July 2018, Page 3930-3934 PDF (283.03 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhm.2018.9072 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Abdulelah Aziz Eissa Alenzi1, Osama Alsallum Alanazi1, Tariq Hulayyil Alanazi1, Abdulwahab Mabkhoot Ali Meqbel2, Nasser Theeb Alqahtani3,1; Munirah Abdullah Almakhayitah4, Wejdan jumyaan alharbi5, Israa Abed Alfadhli5, Wijdan Salem Almatrafi5, Asma Salem Almatrafi52 | ||||
| 11Faculty of Medicine, Northern Border University, 2Faculty of medicine, King Khalid University, 3Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, | ||||
| 24 Faculty of Medicine, King Faisal University, 5 Faculty of Medicine Umm-Alqura University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Dyspnea is defined as the subjective experience of breathing discomfort. It is increasing by age and it is a common problem affecting up to half of patients admitted to acute, tertiary care hospitals and also affecting one quarter of ambulatory patients.Study objective: to determine the prevalence and risk factors of dyspnea among general population of Arar city, Northern Border Province, Saudi Arabia. Methods: This was a cross-sectional, community-based study. It was conducted on the general population of Arar city during the period from 1st October, 2015 to 30th June 2016.Data were collected using a predesigned online self- administered questionnaire covering all the needed items. Results: Dyspnea was reported in 35.2% of the study population. Causes of dyspnea reported in our study were mainly of unknown causes (38.6%), bronchial asthma (23.9%), allergy (22.7%), psychological causes (12.5%), cardiac causes (1.1%), and COPD (1.1%).It was more common among females as 44.8% of females reported dyspnea while it was reported in only 31.7% of males. Our study has also shown that dyspnea was most prevalent among the < 20 age group by ratio as 52.6% of them reported dyspnea. However, 36.1% of subjects aged between 20 and 40 have reported dyspnea. Precipitating causes of dyspnea were found to be mostly due to dust (30.7%), smoking (22.7%), climate changes (14.7%), nervousness (13.6%), specific food/ingested material (11.4%), and excess physical activities (6.8%). It was also founded in our study that 56.5% of participants with family history of dyspnea suffered from dyspnea. While 72.9% of those who did not have a family history of dyspnea did not suffer any dyspnea. Conclusion: Dyspnea was reported in 35.2% of Arar population. Our study showed that dyspnea was more common among females than males. large scale study with detailed investigations about causes and precipitating factors are required. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Dyspnea; hard breathing; prevalence; chronic disease | ||||
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