Coronary heart disease risk factors: prevalence and behavior among male university students in Dammam City, Saudi Arabia.

Smoking, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus are the common risk factors among patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). High dietary fat intake, smoking, and lack of physical exercise have all been documented as independent risk factors for the development of CHD. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of CHD risk factors among King Faisal University (KFU) male students in Dammam city, Saudi Arabia.

Health care professionals' knowledge on home health care in Al-khobar and Al-dammam.

Objective: To survey self-reported knowledge of home health care (HHC) services of health care professionals in Al-Khobar and Al-Dammam.

Methods: A specially developed questionnaire was used to conduct a cross-sectional study to find out how knowledgeable 11 hospital administrators, 16 PHHC medical directors, and 637 health care team were of HHC services.

Results: When asked whether they knew of HHC services, 90.