The Prevalence and the Determinants of Musculoskeletal Diseases in Emiratis Attending Primary Health Care Clinics in Dubai

• DOI: 10.5001/omj.2016.23
• Publication Date: 2016-03-15T03:44:16Z
• Authors: Jamal Al Saleh; Manal El Sayed; Nahed Monsef; Ebtihal Darwish
• Keywords: Back Pain; Knee pain

usculoskeletal diseases are common disorders in the general population. 1,2Lower back pain and other musculoskeletal among leading causes of disability UAE. 3 Few studies Middle East have looked into prevalence rheumatic population.Some these described different community. 4,5Others reported a specific disease 6,7Surprisingly, that broadly at widerange for same disease. 5,8Even used protocol, such as Community Orientated Program Control Rheumatic Diseases (COPCORD) publications, investigators were allowed some flexibility using sets classification criteria to classify countries. 9rthermore, few this part world investigated influence gender, age, body mass index (BMI) on occurrence diseases. 6,7,10So far, no study has Emiratis UAE.Our attempted explore determinants attending primary health care (PHC) clinics Dubai, relationship between BMI. M ET H O D SThe Prevalence Osteoporosis Dubai (PRO Dubai) study, was cross-sectional took place 2 January 2009 31 December 2009.We randomly invited aged 18 85 years old who attended any one 13 PHC (out 16) during period participate