BACKGROUND The Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) is one of the most commonly used tools in epidemiologic studies to assess long-term nutritional exposure. The purpose of this study is to describe the development of a culture specific FFQ for Arab populations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait. METHODS We interviewed samples of Arab populations over 18 years old in UAE and Kuwait as...

Consumption of electrical energy in Kuwait is rapidly increasing. The production of this energy currently depends mainly on oil and its derivatives to drive the different power plants in the country. The combustion of such fossil fuel comes with a well-known environmental pollution. Local oil production represents a key income for Kuwait and intelligent consumption of oil is therefore an essent...

Diabetes Mellitus is one of the major public health challenges, affecting more than 347 million adults worldwide. The impact of diabetes necessitates assessing the quality of care received by people with diabetes, especially in countries with a significant diabetes burden such as Kuwait. This paper aimed at piloting an approach for measuring Type II diabetes care performance through the use of ...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of illicit use of substances and identify the factors associated with illicit drug use among male students in the state-run Kuwait University and private universities in Kuwait. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study was a cross-sectional survey with a sample of 1,587 male students from both private universities (n = 869) and the public (n = 718) Kuwait Universit...

Human brucellosis is a neglected and underrecognized infection of widespread geographic distribution. Brucellosis is present on all inhabited continents and endemic in many areas of the world, including Kuwait and the Middle East. Here, we present draft genome assemblies of five Brucella melitensis strains isolated from brucellosis patients in Kuwait.

Service de Bactériologie-Virologie, INSERM U914 ‘Emerging Resistance to Antibiotics’, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Assistance Publique/ Hôpitaux de Paris, Faculté de Médecine et Université Paris-Sud, 78 rue de Général Leclerc, K.-Bicêtre, France; Service de Bactériologie, Hopital Européen Georges Pompidou, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France; Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait...

Dr S. Al–Awadhi (University of Kuwait, Kuwait) Dr S. Eguchi (Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo) Dr I. Koch (University of Newcastle, Australia) Dr A. R. Pewsey (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain) Professor G. Haesbroeck (University of Liege, Belgium) Professor M. Schyns (University of Namur, Belgium) Mr S. Torcida (Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argen...

background: breakfast cereal is a nutritious type of food that is widely consumed by various age groups in kuwait. this study investigates the presence of long-lived gamma emitters in breakfast cereal, and estimates annual effective doses to various age groups. materials and methods: breakfast cereal samples were collected from the kuwaiti local market. the samples originated from different cou...

of Thesis Approved for the PhD Degree at the Faculty of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, Kuwait University, Kuwait types and the severity of respiratory tract disease was analyzed. In addition, the association between RNA load of different hMPV genotypes and its effect on the outcome and prognosis of hMPV disease was also investigated. Our results show that the prevalence of hMPV infection in ...