A recent study in Saudi Arabia uncovered certain prevalent health-risk behaviors in the adolescent population. One of the most prevalent behaviors identified by this study is health-risk dietary behavior. In general, adolescents in Saudi Arabia reported poor dietary behaviors. Adolescents in Saudi Arabia have received minimal attention over the past decades. This study aims to examine the effic...

High salt intake has been associated with adverse side-effects such as hypertension and cardiovascular disease. The amount of salt intake among the population of Saudi Arabia is not known. The objective of this study was to estimate the salt intake among residents of the Eastern region of Saudi Arabia by measuring 24-hour urinary sodium excretion. Urine samples were collected from 130 individua...

Background and Objectives Medical professionalism is an essential aspect of medical education and practice worldwide. Our objective was to explore and compare the perception as recommended sanctions about professionalism lapses, using the "Dundee Polyprofessionalism Inventory I: Academic Integrity", among the faculty and the students' of two different medical schools in Saudi Arabia. Methods ...

Manuscript received January 01, 2014; revised March 28, 2014. This work was supported in part by King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Cyril Dennis Enyi is with King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. (corresponding author: +966550782390; e-mail: cenyi@ kfupm.edu.sa). Mukiawa Edwin Soh is with King Fahd University of Petroleum and ...

This paper investigates how retailers at different stages of e-commerce maturity evaluate their entry to e-commerce activities. The study was conducted using qualitative approach interviewing 16 retailers in Saudi Arabia. It comes up with 22 factors that are believed the most influencing factors for retailers in Saudi Arabia. Interestingly, there seem to be differences between retailers in comp...

In this study fourteen microsatellite primer pairs were used to study the genetic diversity of Shishi Date palm in Qatar. A total of 32 date palm (15 Shishi cultivar, 10 Khalas and seven male date palms) were collected from Qatar and 5 Shihi cultivars were collected from Saudi Arabia ‎for comparison. The Shishi set collected from Qatar was selected from ‎different regions to represent the ‎gene...

Iran and Saudi Arabia have long been engaged in heated rivalry and conflict in the Middle East. These two regional powers are both major oil-exporting countries; in major foreign policy issues, therefore, oil is used as an important tool to pursue goals. Iran and Saudi Arabia have a long history of differences on oil policies, but one of the most severe differences emerged in 2011-2016, along w...

Objective(s): In developing countries and worldwide cervical cancer is an important cause of   female mortality. Reports describing the frequency and pattern of abnormal Pap smears in Saudi Arabia, using the revised Bethesda system (RBS) are very few. The current study was conducted to explore the changing pattern of epithelial cell abnormalities (ECA) detected in Pap smears (PS) in females of ...

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