background: screening mammography is an established intervention that leads to early breast cancer detection and reduced mortality. the lebanese ministry of health has initiated yearly awareness campaigns and provided free mammography in multiple centers around the country. methods: the study took place in two major areas of lebanon - beirut and south lebanon. this cross-sectional survey aimed ...

EDITOR—The most common sensory deficit in humans is hearing loss, aVecting 1 in 1000 children, with approximately half of the cases having a genetic cause. The majority of these genetic causes are non-syndromic, of which approximately 75% have an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. So far, nearly 30 genes that cause non-syndromic recessive deafness (NSRD) have been located (for review see ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to investigate the relation between body mass index (BMI) and body fat (BF) among Lebanese female adolescents. METHODS 51 Lebanese females aged 12 to 18 years participated in this study. BMI was calculated as weight/height. Adiposity was measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). RESULTS Correlation coefficient of percent body fat (%BF) with BMI ...

AIM To examine the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and their association with dietary variables in the Lebanese population while reviewing secular trends in the population's nutritional intakes and nutrition-related CVD risk factors. METHODS Data on CVD risk factors and food consumption patterns in Lebanon were collected from scholarly papers, including individual studies ...

In a recent paper, Chmaisse et al,1 reported the association between polymorphism of intracellular adhesion molecules-1 (ICAM-1) and Behçet’s disease (BD) in the Lebanese population. The substitution at nucleotide 469 of ICAM-1 that occurs in exon 6 of the gene, results in a change from lysine (K) to glutamic acid (E). The authors included 39 Lebanese patients diagnosed with BD and 32 controls ...

background: hip fractures are serious fall injuries that often result in long-term functional impairment and increased mortality. as the population ages, the number of hip fractures is likely to increase worldwide. the main objective of this pilot study was to evaluate the risk factors of hip fracture among the older adults in the lebanese population. methods: this pilot epidemiological, prospe...

The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health has launched a National Mental Health Programme, which in turn has established the Mental Health and Substance Use Strategy for Lebanon 2015-2020. In parallel, research involving refugees has been conducted since the onset of the Syrian crisis. The findings point to an increase in mental health disorders in the Syrian refugee population, which now numbers ...

The gene frequencies of HLA class II alleles were studied in 95 healthy Lebanese Arab and 72 healthy Bahraini Arab subjects. Our aim was to establish the genetic relationship between Bahraini and Lebanese Arabs in terms of HLA class II gene and haplotype frequencies and to compare these results with frequencies for other countries with populations of Caucasian and non-Caucasian descent. Subject...