Publications by authors named "A Alqadi"
Background: Clinical photographs are now considered an essential element for accurate and objective dental records. Very little information exists on dental photography in children and the factors that can influence the dentist's decision to take dental photographs.
Aim: This study aimed to assess the current use, attitude and confidence of paediatric dentists using clinical dental photography of children worldwide.
Sentence repetition has been the focus of extensive psycholinguistic research. The notion that music training can bolster speech perception in adverse auditory conditions has been met with mixed results. In this work, we sought to gauge the effect of babble noise on immediate repetition of spoken and sung phrases of varying semantic content (expository, narrative, and anomalous), initially in 100 English-speaking monolinguals with and without music training.
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- * A study analyzed microbiological data from patients with diseases like cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular issues, and kidney problems at a hospital in Saudi Arabia, revealing a high prevalence of urinary infections, especially in kidney disease cases.
- * Bacterial resistance patterns varied by disease, with some strains showing limited resistance to critical antibiotics, underscoring the importance of this information for effective treatment planning.
Background: Ambient temperature is predicted to rise in Saudi Arabia, and how this will impact the health of its population has not been investigated. Saudi Arabia is one of the top ten countries with the highest prevalence of diabetes. The current study investigates the correlation between ambient temperature and HbA1c levels in a group of Saudis in Riyadh.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: A high demand has been placed on radiologists to perform screen reads due to higher number of women undergoing mammography. This study aims to examine radiographer performance in reporting low compared with high-mammographic density (MD) images; and to assess the influence of key demographics of Jordanian radiographers on their performance.
Methods: Thirty mammograms with varied MD were reported by 12 radiographers using the Breast Imaging-Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS).