Liver diseases among Arab world, current state and unmet needs, a scoping review

Document Type : Review Articles

Authors

1 1. Internal Medicine department, Gastroenterology and Hepatology division, Qena university Hospital, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

2 Hepatology, Gastroenterology, and Infectious Diseases department, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt.

3 Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology Department, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

4 Lecturer of internal medicine, College of medicine, Arab acadmy for science and technology and maritime transport, Alexandria, Egypt

5 Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology, and Infectious Diseases, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh , Egypt

6 Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

7 Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Infectious Diseases department, Al-azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

8 Department of Hepatogastroenterology and Infectious diseases, Al-Azhar University, Damietta, Egypt Department of Clinical Sciences, college of Medicine, Sulaiman Al Rajhi University, Saudi Arabia

9 Lecturer at Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Department National Liver Institute Menoufia University

10 Department tropical medicine, Ain shams university, Cairo, Egypt

11 Internal Medicine department, Hepatogastroenterology unit, Kasr Al-Ainy school of medicine, Cairo university, Cairo, Egypt

12 Professor of internal medicine & gastroenterology, Faculty of medicine, University of Alexandria, Egypt

13 Lecturer of tropical medicine, Faculty of medicine.tropical medicine department, University of Alexandria, Egypt

14 Consultant of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Gastroenterology, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute (NHTMRI)

15 Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatogastroentrology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

16 Department of internal medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

Liver diseases are increasing nowadays worldwide with increase in morbidity and mortality, which cause a burden to countries. we aimed to provide an overview of the current state and unmet needs in liver disease research in the Arab countries. We searched PubMed, Scopus, Web of Sciences (WOS), EBSCO, and Wiley databases for relevant articles from 2011 to January 29th, 2021, using different search terms that cover all liver diseases in addition to names of the Arab countries. All relevant studies that discuss any liver disease in any of the Arab countries were selected irrespective of age, sex, region, publishing year, or publishing language. We excluded review articles, non-human studies and publications study the surgically related liver diseases as liver transplantation and biliary diseases. 3030 publications were included, All included studies were categorized by topics and evaluated by research team to identify the current state and gaps in research need to be strengthened.

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