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Dynamic Contact Network Simulation Model Based on Multi-Agent Systems
Epidemic spread poses a new challenge to the public health community. Given its very rapid spread, public health decision makers are mobilized to fight and stop it by setting disposal several tools. This ongoing research aims to...
Published by: IGI Global
Research on Passive Contaminant Transport in a Vegetated Channel
Vegetation plays an important role in the physical, ecological, and hydraulic functions of streams, rivers and many other water bodies and can affect the transport of water, sediment and nutrients both within the channel and to...
How Many Shades Are There in Sustainable Finance?
In the last years, sustainable finance emerged as one of the most popular research topics all over the world. Inspired by the need to reconsider the role and contribution of finance for a more sustainable development and...
Sustainable Development Business and Management Accounting and Finance Government and Law Social Sciences and Humanities
Published by: IGI Global
Knowledge Transfer and Use as Predictors of Law Firm Performance
There has been observed low practice of conscious knowledge management among Nigerian law firms and there is no evidence on how knowledge transfer and use predict their performance. Hence, this study examined knowledge transfer...
Published by: IGI Global
End User Satisfaction With Cloud Computing
Cloud computing assures a faster, cheaper and more efficient rendering of resources, which leads to huge popularity among businesses and specifically the health sector. The major objective of this research is to identify the...
Published by: IGI Global
Patient-Centric Multichain Healthcare Record
In this paper, the authors have amplified the concept that EHRs need to be patient-centric and patient-driven, that is the patient should be the real owner as well as the manager of his medical records. The authors propose...
Published by: IGI Global
Educationalizing Instagram for Virtual Instruction in COVID-19
Learning through social media platforms is a nascent pedagogy that opens up new virtual online e-instructional modalities and avenues to be explored especially in these challenging emergency times of COVID-19. This research...
Published by: IGI Global
Forming Suitable Groups in MCSCL Environments
Given the peculiarities of mobile computer-supported collaborative learning (MCSCL) environments, forming suitable groups in such learning environments represents a hard and time-consuming task. This is because many conditions...
Published by: IGI Global
High prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors amongst young adults in the United Arab Emirates
Fatima Mezhal, Abderrahim Oulhaj, Abdishakur Abdulle, Abdulla AlJunaibi, Abdulla Alnaeemi, Amar Ahmad, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, Ayesha S Al Dhaheri, Eiman AlZaabi, Fatma Al-Maskari, Fatme Alanouti, Fayza Alameri, Habiba Alsafar, Hamad Alblooshi, Juma Alkaabi, Laila Abdel Wareth, Mai Aljaber, Marina Kazim, Michael Weitzman, Mohammad Al-Houqani, Mohammad Hag Ali, E Murat Tuzcu, Naima Oumeziane, Omar El-Shahawy, Rami H Al-Rifai, Scott Sherman, Syed M Shah, Thekra Alzaabi, Tom Loney, Wael Almahmeed, Youssef Idaghdour, Luai A Ahmed, Raghib Ali
Apr 15, 2023
Background
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the world. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), it accounts for 40% of mortality. CVD is caused by multiple cardiometabolic risk factors (CRFs)...
Hypertension obesity cardiovascular disease Dyslipidemia Central obesity Non-communicable disease cardiometabolic risk factors Dysglycemia Humans Cardiovascular Diseases prevalence Risk Factors Adult United Arab Emirates Female Male Dyslipidemias Young Adult obesity Abdominal
Published by: BMC cardiovascular disorders