Demographic, behavioral, and cardiovascular disease risk factors in the Saudi population: results from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology study (PURE-Saudi)

• Egile Nagusiak: Khalid F. Alhabib (Egilea), Mohammed A. Batais (Egilea), Turky H. Almigbal (Egilea), Mostafa Q. Alshamiri (Egilea), Hani Altaradi (Egilea), Sumathy Rangarajan (Egilea), Salim Yusuf (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: BMC, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the major cause of death in Saudi Arabia. We aimed to assess associated demographic, behavioral, and CVD risk factors as part of the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study. Methods PURE is a global cohort study of adults ages 35-70 years...