Khat chewing among parents and their children: A potential transgenerational effect [PDF]
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary CareBackground: Khat has a stimulating and addictive effect and can induce consequences on the health and socioeconomic status of khat chewers. Objectives: This study aims to assess knowledge, attitude, and practice of khat chewing among parents in Jazan and
Ibrahim M Gosadi +8 more
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Tea in the Morning and Khat Afternoon: Health Threats Due to Khat Chewing. [PDF]
Cureus, 2020 Khat or qat (Catha edulis) is a flowering plant with an Arabic name قات, regularly named as qāt, also is known by various descriptive names, such as Abyssinian tea, Somali tea, Arabian tea, Miraa, Jima, and Kafta in its endemic regions of the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
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Khat chewing and associated factors among public secondary school students in Harar town, Eastern Ethiopia: a multicenter cross-sectional study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 BackgroundKhat is a huge, evergreen tree that grows at high altitudes throughout the Arabian Peninsula and in the region stretching from eastern to southern Africa.
Kabtamu Nigussie +7 more
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Seven in every ten khat chewers in Gondar City had an intention to stop khat chewing: cross-sectional study using Transtheoretical Model [PDF]
BMC Psychiatry, 2020 Background Khat chewing practice is rapidly expanding worldwide and currently, an estimated over 10 million people chew khat daily. The transtheoretical model explains how behavior change occurs across the stages of change.
Asmamaw Adugna +2 more
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Khat Chewing and Lipid Profile in Human and Experimental Animals. [PDF]
Biomed Res Int, 2021 Background. Catha edulis, also known as khat or qat, is a plant that grows in East Africa and southern Arabia. Several millions of people chew the leaves and twigs of khat plant for their central stimulating amphetamine‐like effects. Khat chewing is becoming more common in Europe and the United States, owing to worldwide migration. Objective.
Al-Duais MA, Al-Awthan YS.
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Khat chewing in pregnant women associated with prelabor rupture of membranes, evidence from eastern Ethiopia [PDF]
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020 INTRODUCTION: Prelabor rupture of membranes (PROM) is a major factor that affects pregnancy outcome. Results from previous studies have suggested that there is an association between pregnant women and khat chewing and preterm birth, but evidence of ...
Tesfaye Assebe Yadeta +3 more
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Habitual khat chewing and oral melanoacanthoma: A case report. [PDF]
World J Clin Cases, 2023 Habitual khat (Catha edulis) chewing has been proven to cause numerous oral tissue changes. However, oral melanoacanthoma triggered by chronic khat chewing is rare. Oral melanoacanthoma is an uncommon, sudden, asymptomatic, benign pigmentation of the oral cavity.
Albagieh H +7 more
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Machine learning algorithms to predict khat chewing practice and its predictors among men aged 15 to 59 in Ethiopia: further analysis of the 2011 and 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionKhat chewing is a significant public health issue in Ethiopia, influenced by various demographic factors. Understanding the prevalence and determinants of khat chewing practices is essential to developing targeted interventions.
Mequannent Sharew Melaku +3 more
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Tobacco use and khat chewing among adolescents in Yemen: a large-scale school-based cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMC Public HealthObjective The present study sought to assess the prevalence and determinants of tobacco use (cigarette smoking and shisha use) and khat chewing among Yemeni adolescents, and to evaluate their knowledge and attitudes toward these habits.
Sadeq Ali Al-Maweri +14 more
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Oral White Lesions Associated with Chewing Khat [PDF]
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2004 Introduction Khat is a cultivated plant whose leaves when chewed elevate mood. Unlike the chewing of betel nut, no association between the white oral mucosal lesions in khat users and oral malignancies has been reported.
Meir Gorsky +3 more
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