Table 4.

Comparisons of disease associations with other developing countries

Associated disease	Banjar 2005 KSA Total (151 patients) (%)	Karakoc 2001 Turkey Total (23)[2](%)	Dawson 1996 Abu-Dhabi/UAE Total (32)[9](%
Cardiac	12 (8)
Pulmonary	48 (32)	8 (34)	6 (19)
Kartagener syndrome	5 (3)	3 (13)
Infections	77 (51)	8 (34)	7 (22)
Central nervous system	18 (12)
Foreign body aspiration	6 (4)
Immunodefficiency	27 (18)		3 (9)
Skeletal	10 (7)
Asthma	103 (68)	4 (17)
Other	78 (52)

KSA - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, UAE - United Arab Emirates