Prevalence of Spinal Cord Disorders in Al-Quseir City, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt

Abstract

The knowledge of the prevalence of spinal cord disorders (SCD) is important to understand specific causes in each part of the worldand to allow to potentially adapt health care and public policy including law enforcement to the main causes. SCD have important personal, biopsychological, socio-economic, short-term and long-term consequences. An SCD is the underlying cause for 1 of every 40 patients admitted to a major trauma centre. The affected population consists primarily of young male adults. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and cause of SCD in Al-Quseir City, using a door-to-door method. The total of inhabitants was 33,285 in Al-Quseir City screened by 3 specialists of neurology. Suspected cases were subjected to full clinical assessment and MRI or CT of the spine. The prevalence rate of SCD was 63/100,000 for the total population. Traumatic spinal cord injury had a prevalence of 18/100,000, while non-traumatic SCD was found in 45/100,000. Degenerative cervical disc prolapse was the most common aetiology of SCD with a prevalence rate of 27/100,000.

Genetic, clinical, and biochemical aspects of patients with Alzheimer disease

“…High education was recorded in only 5% of the patients. This is in agreement with many previous studies, which showed that the prevalence of AD is more in illiterate people than educated ones [19][20][21][22]. However, this is not in agreement with the results of Ghuloum and colleagues [23], who reported that there in no significant association between education level and dementia in a Qatari population.…”

Epidemiology of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in Developing Countries from 2009 to 2020: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

“…Among included studies, 37 were retrospective, 8 were prospective, and two studies were cross-sectional [54, 71]. Only four studies were population-based [28, 36, 46, 70], while 14 and 29 were hospital-based and rehabilitation-based, respectively. Although the Egypt study by Tallawy et al [36] only included six TSCI patients, we had it in our study because it was a population-based door-to-door study among all city citizens.…”

“…Only four studies were population-based [28, 36, 46, 70], while 14 and 29 were hospital-based and rehabilitation-based, respectively. Although the Egypt study by Tallawy et al [36] only included six TSCI patients, we had it in our study because it was a population-based door-to-door study among all city citizens. Its results were acquired by an extent valuable screening.…”

“…Studies showed an extensive variation in the proportion of complete versus incomplete injuries. The frequency of complete injuries caused by TSCIs ranged from 16.7% in door-to-door Egypt [36] study to 86.2% in Iran [43]. The observed discrepancies in a study in China [59] between the percentage of AISA classification and complete/incomplete injuries (Table 1) which is not discussed in details are probably due to different definitions for classifications.…”

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