Social pressures and hereditary factors and their relationship to chronic diseases - a field study of patients with diabetes and blood pressure in the public hospital institution in Laghouat

Abstract

In this study, we decided to identify the most important social stratum: chronic
patients, This is because the Algerian society today is witnessing rapid changes in the level of
the frequency of diseases, so that we find a strong rise in the proportion of people with
chronic diseases, the latter is a concern that threatens all the entities of society because it
lasts And do not disappear automatically, as it affects all human groups as well as developed
and developing societies through all times, and for reasons beyond the scope of the individual
in many cases, which may be considered the result of rapid development of civilization.
herefore, this study aims to detect the factors causing these chronic diseases by focusing on
some social pressures which may play an important role in the incidence of these diseases
such as family and economic pressures, and double the danger is the activation of genetic
factors, which contributes to the acceleration of infection, Diabetics and blood pressure are
the most common chronic diseases in the city of Laghouat