The questionnaires were distributed to the students during their teaching sessions and students were briefed about the objectives of the study and were instructed on spot by the researcher and assistants, how to fill out the questionnaire in a comprehensive and realistic way | , However; these habits were not studied internationally in depth for medical students, locally we found only one paper which studied these habits as being risk factors for coronary heart disease in medical students |
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Mann Whitney U test was used to test the difference between the normally distributed quantitative variables | 5 cm and the mean weight is 68 |
Al-Hazzaa Hazzaa M, Abahussain Nada A, Al-Sobayel Hana I, Qahwaji Dina M, Musaiger Abdulrahman O | The University has five Directorates, thirteen Deanships and nine Centers |
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3 Mother Occupation Without Work 385 68 | The University has five Directorates, thirteen Deanships and nine Centers |
University of Dammam is a university in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
13Dammam is the largest town in the Eastern Region and it is the administrative capital of the province | Overall we found the medical students both males and female are having unhealthy dietary habits regardless of their academic level which is similar to what was found by Nghat Nisar et al |
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Majid A Aldossary, Laila Telmesani, Khalid W Altabash and Anas N Bukair ScientificTracks Abstracts : Otolaryngol Sunnyvale• — Similar findings were found in the school children in local as international studies, that led to increase the prevalence of metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus up to 23 | Hiba Omer ScientificTracks Abstracts : Breast Can Curr Res• The mean self-reported height for males was 168 cm and their mean weight was 69 kg, while the mean height for female is 155 |
Thus, there is a need for comprehensive dietary habits and life style assessment in medical students at different academic levels which might help to diagnose such problems earlier and to trace them at different academic levels to help for better solutions.