Volume 24, Issue 104, July - August, 2020

Risk factors associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Arar, Saudi Arabia: A case-control study

Basem M M Salama¹, Abdelrahman M.A. Abukanna², Ahmed M. S. Hegazy³

¹Family & Community Medicine Department Faculty of Medicine, Northern Border University, KSA; and Community Medicine Department, Damietta Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Egypt.
²Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Northern Border University, KSA
³Anatomy Department, Faculty of Medicine, Northern Border University, KSA; and Benha Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Egypt

ABSTRACT

Background: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a condition characterized by inflammation and narrowing of the lungs' airways and damaged air sacs. It is a major preventable and treatable public health problem around the globe. The study aimed to identify risk factors associated with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease among adults. Subject and methods: A total of 314 participants (157 Cases (COPD) and 157 controls) were randomly selected in a case-control study conducted in Arar City, Northern Border Province, Saudi Arabia in the period from January 2019 to December 2019. Results: Risk factors with significant differences found between COPD and control groups were gender, age, level of education, residence, socioeconomic status, family history, smoking passive smoking, and dusty work (P < 0.05). In multivariable analysis, smoking amount and duration, family history of COPD, history of poorly treated asthma, and age were the only independent factors associated with higher odds of having COPD. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that amount and duration of smoking not just smoking alone were important risk factors of COPD.

Keywords: Chronic, Obstructive, Pulmonary, Disease, smoking

Medical Science, 2020, 24(104), 2487-2493

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