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008    160719s2018                  000 0 eng d 
090    Z 5053 .A2 H429i 2019 
092    033666|bgift 
100 1  Hazeem,Lubna Adel 
245 10 Identification of risk factors associated with 
       hypertension with hypertension in workers at Shuaiba 
       Industrial Complex in Kuwait between 2014-2018 /|cLubna 
       Adel Hazeem 
260    Kuwait :|bFaculty of Public Health, Kuwait University,
       |c2018. 
300    70p. :|bill. 
500    Course name:captstone project 
520 0  Hypertension is a highly  prevalent  non-commun  ica ble  
       disease  (NCO)  worldwide.  Common risk factors for 
       hypertension a t the industrial work environment in c lude
       lou d noises , chemical solvents ,  volatile chemical  
       liquids ,  gases, and  temperature  variations.While 
       hypertension is well known to lower  the  quality  of  
       life  and  performance  of  workers  at  hazardous  ind 
       ustria l en vironments, the relations hip between 
       occupational risk  factors  and  hypertens io n  has  not 
       been studied in Kuwait. Thus, the objective of the present
       study  is  to  explore and  quantify  the rela tionship 
       between occupationa l risk factors as well as other 
       related  risk  factors  and hypertension among patient 
       workers (n=7892) at Shuaiba in dustrial, med ica l center 
       (SIM C) between 2014 and 2018. This was a cross-sectiona l
       st udy using convenient samp li ng method. Anonymous data 
       of workers between the years 2014 - 20 18 was extracted 
       from the medical database of SIMC  inclu  ding patient 
       characteristics , occ upat iona l e xposures and  
       hypertensive' status, whic h were analyzed  us in g  
       classica l  bivariate  and  Bayes ia n  mu ltiva riate  
       sta tis tica l a pproaches.    Category   age   (31-40  , 
       O R=5.3,   95%   CI= 3.6 -7 .8) ,   41-50   (OR= l 8.7 , 
       95% CI= l 2.9-27.2),   51-60 (OR=39.7, 95%=27.3 -56.5),  
       61-> 70  (OR=53.4, 95% CI= 34.  l -8 l. 5) as well as occ 
       upa tional category (Professional/senior management 
       (OR=2.5, 95% Cl= l. 5-4.0) were sig nifica ntly related to
       hypertension. Add itio nally, nationality (being Arab 
       (OR=0.3, 95% CI= 0.2-0.5) , Asian (OR=0.4, 95% CI= 0.3 -0 
       .7), Occupation (having othe r job (OR=0.4, 95% CI= 0.3-
       0.7) as well as type (Confined space (OR=0.8, 95% CI= 0.6 
       - 0 .9) have a significantly lower risk of having 
       hypertension. Other jobs included science /medica l  jobs,
       agric ultural, fishin g, sailing , diving ,  cooking  and 
       hunting  jobs,  cooking ,  c leaning  , house keep in g 
       and waiter jobs and other servic e workers as well as 
       firefighting, police men , detectives ,  aircraft  ship 
       officers.  No  significant  relationship  with occ 
       upational  factors was found. The  res ults  of  this  
       study ma y  help  in  guidin g the  direction of effective
       risk-based inter vention  s trategie s  for hypertens ion ,
       which can subseque ntly he lp  in  im proving  thequa li 
       ty of the working  environment and performance o f the 
       workers at SIMC. 
596    1 
650  2 Hypertension 
650  2 Kuwait 
650  2 Public Health 
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