Recently, vitamin D deficiency has been considered the most common nutritional all over world that affects age groups. The current study aimed to evaluate level of awareness general population in Taif city, Saudi Arabia, toward deficiency, sources, and toxicity. A cross-sectional was conducted.  validated questionnaire distributed participants through social media platforms. included 431 p...

S. Al-Nofayee Department of Mathematics, Taif University, P.O. Box 439, Hawiah 21974, Saudi Arabia Correspondence should be addressed to S. Al-Nofayee, [email protected] Received 8 June 2012; Accepted 16 July 2012 Academic Editor: Feng Qi Copyright q 2012 S. Al-Nofayee. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use,...

This study aimed to estimate the rate of and risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia of patients admitted to hospitals in Taif, Saudi Arabia. A case-control study was conducted of 211 discharged patients with confirmed pneumonia and 633 controls without pneumonia and a review was made of hospital records during 1999-2003. Multiple logistic regression showed that duration of hospital stay, unit of...

Waleed Mazi, Vartul Sangal, Amir Saeed, Gunnar Sandstrom, François-Xavier Weill, Jun Yu Karolinska Institute, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden; Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Strathclyde, United Kingdom; Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Nort...

Worldwide Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae are two of the most prevalent sexually transmitted pathogens. The present study aimed to estimate the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in women from Taif, western region, KSA. A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method was carried using DNA extracted from 144 female urine samples. Primer pairs specifi...

The aim of this study was to provide data regarding habits, behavior, problems and needs regarding health in adolescent children from a military community at Al Hada and Taif, Saudi Arabia which could guide school health programmes. We carried out a cross-sectional study on 284 preparatory and secondary school students. Prevalence of smoking was 21.3% among males and 4.9% among females. The rat...

Background and Aim of the work: Splenectomy is a common operation but it carries the danger of many postoperative complications. One of the most important complications is the portal vein thrombosis (PVT), which may be fatal due to development of bowel ischemia and severe portal hypertension. Due to the effect of hypobaric hypoxia and higher liability for thrombosis encountered in high altitude...