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Assessment of knowledge, attitudes and practices of Saudi adults about calorie labeling in central Saudi Arabia

Hatim I. Alassaf, Yazeed A. Alaskar, Bader F. Alqulaysh, Mohammed A. Alshehri, Moath Y. Alnosian, Abdulwahab A. Alshamrani and Mohamad A. Al-Tannir
Saudi Medical Journal March 2020, 41 (3) 296-303; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.3.24916
Hatim I. Alassaf
From the College of Medicine (Alassaf, Alaskar, Alqulaysh, Alshehri, Alnosian, Alshamrani), Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University and from the Research Monitoring Department (Al-Tannir), Applied Clinical Research Administration Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Yazeed A. Alaskar
From the College of Medicine (Alassaf, Alaskar, Alqulaysh, Alshehri, Alnosian, Alshamrani), Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University and from the Research Monitoring Department (Al-Tannir), Applied Clinical Research Administration Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Bader F. Alqulaysh
From the College of Medicine (Alassaf, Alaskar, Alqulaysh, Alshehri, Alnosian, Alshamrani), Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University and from the Research Monitoring Department (Al-Tannir), Applied Clinical Research Administration Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohammed A. Alshehri
From the College of Medicine (Alassaf, Alaskar, Alqulaysh, Alshehri, Alnosian, Alshamrani), Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University and from the Research Monitoring Department (Al-Tannir), Applied Clinical Research Administration Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Moath Y. Alnosian
From the College of Medicine (Alassaf, Alaskar, Alqulaysh, Alshehri, Alnosian, Alshamrani), Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University and from the Research Monitoring Department (Al-Tannir), Applied Clinical Research Administration Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdulwahab A. Alshamrani
From the College of Medicine (Alassaf, Alaskar, Alqulaysh, Alshehri, Alnosian, Alshamrani), Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University and from the Research Monitoring Department (Al-Tannir), Applied Clinical Research Administration Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohamad A. Al-Tannir
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vol. 41 no. 3 296-303
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.3.24916
PubMed 
32114603

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 25, 2019
  • Accepted January 7, 2020
  • Published online March 1, 2020.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Hatim I. Alassaf, MBBS⇑,
  2. Yazeed A. Alaskar, MBBS,
  3. Bader F. Alqulaysh, MBBS,
  4. Mohammed A. Alshehri, MBBS,
  5. Moath Y. Alnosian, MBBS,
  6. Abdulwahab A. Alshamrani, MBBS and
  7. Mohamad A. Al-Tannir, DMD, MPH
  1. From the College of Medicine (Alassaf, Alaskar, Alqulaysh, Alshehri, Alnosian, Alshamrani), Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University and from the Research Monitoring Department (Al-Tannir), Applied Clinical Research Administration Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Hatim I. Alassaf, College of Medicine, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: Hatimalassaf{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4307-0693
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