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Additional file 1. Time trend of annual numbers of systematic reviews on population health in MENA between 2008 and 2016. a: overall trend (unstratified data); b: trends according to author affiliation; c: trends according to journal impact factor (IF); d: trends according to number of yearly citations.

Additional file 4. Characteristics of the included systematic reviews on population health in the Middle East and North Africa, 2008-2016.

Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-ccx-10.1177_10732748211027158 for Influence of Age on 2040 Cancer Burden in the Older Population of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries: Public Health Implications by Sohaila Cheema, Patrick Maisonneuve, Albert B. Lowenfels, Amit Abraham, Sathyanarayanan Doraiswamy and Ravinder Mamtani in Cancer Control

Additional file 2. Number of yearly citations analysis.

Additional file 3. PRISMA flowchart of searches, screening, and inclusion and exclusion of systematic reviews.

In a number of gastrointestinal and nongastrointestinal diseases, gender has been proven to be an independent risk factor for severity. To determine whether this holds true for severity in acute pancreatitis is the aim of our study. This paper derives from a prospective study on the epidemiology of acute pancreatitis, which included 274 patients (172 male and 102 female) with a first attack of the disease. Severity parameters were: Atlanta criteria (arterial Po2 textless or = 60 mm Hg, and serum creatinine on admission textgreater2 mg/dl after rehydration); Ranson`s and Imrie`s prognostic factors; APACHE II score; Balthazar-scored contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) results obtained within 72 hr of admission; days spent in the intensive care unit and total hospital stay; the necessity for artificial ventilation, dialysis, or surgery; and mortality. As already known, there is a significant association between gender and etiology of pancreatitis in general. Not surprisingly, the men in our study had alcohol-induced acute pancreatitis more frequently than women, whereas biliary pancreatitis predominated among the women. As for severity, there was no significant association between gender and any of the severity parameters with a few minor exceptions: longer hospital stays, higher Imrie scores and more pseudocysts for women, and more necroses in women with idiopathic pancreatitis. Thus, gender is no independent risk factor for the severity and outcome of acute pancreatitis., + ID der Publikation: unilu_29632 + Sprache: Englisch + Letzte Aktualisierung: 2021-02-22 12:02:38