DDI Publications List

Sewify M, Nair S, Warsame S, Murad M, Alhubail A, Behbehani K, Al-Refaei F, Tiss A. Prevalence of Urinary Tract Infection and Antimicrobial Susceptibility among Diabetic Patients with Controlled and Uncontrolled Glycemia in Kuwait. J Diabetes Res. 2016;2016:6573215.

Elkum N, Al-Arouj M, Sharifi M, Shaltout A, Bennakhi A. Prevalence of childhood obesity in the state of Kuwait. Pediatr Obes. 2016;11(6):e30-e4.

Eaaswarkhanth M, Xu D, Flanagan C, Rzhetskaya M, Hayes MG, Blekhman R, et al. Atopic Dermatitis Susceptibility Variants in Filaggrin Hitchhike Hornerin Selective Sweep. Genome Biol Evol. 2016;8(10):3240-55.

Ried JS, Jeff M J, Chu AY, Bragg-Gresham JL, van Dongen J, Huffman JE, Ahluwalia TS, Cadby G, Eklund N, Eriksson J…Tuomilehto J, et al. A principal component meta-analysis on multiple anthropometric traits identifies novel loci for body shape. Nat Commun. 2016;7:13357.

Al Madhoun A, Ali H, AlKandari S, Atizado VL, Akhter N, Al-Mulla F, Atari M. Defined three-dimensional culture conditions mediate efficient induction of definitive endoderm lineage from human umbilical cord Wharton’s jelly mesenchymal stem cells. Stem Cell Res Ther. 2016;7(1):165.

Alroughani R, Deleu D, El Salem K, Al-Hashel J, Alexander KJ, Abdelrazek MA, et al. A regional consensus recommendation on brain atrophy as an outcome measure in multiple sclerosis. BMC Neurol. 2016;16(1):240.

Alroughani R, Akhtar S, Ahmed S, Behbehani R, Al-Hashel J. Is Time to Reach EDSS 6.0 Faster in Patients with Late-Onset versus Young-Onset Multiple Sclerosis? PLoS One. 2016;11(11):e0165846.

Livingstone KM, Celis-Morales C, Papandonatos GD, Erar B, Florez JC, Jablonski KA, Razquin C, Marti A, Heianza Y, Huang T… Tuomilehto J, et al. FTO genotype and weight loss: systematic review and meta-analysis of 9563 individual participant data from eight randomised controlled trials. BMJ. 2016;354:i4707.

Al-Hashel JY, Al-Sabah AA, Ahmed SF, Al-Enezi M, Al-Tawheid N, Al Mesailekh Z, Eliwa J, Alroughani R. Risk Factors, Subtypes, and Outcome of Ischemic Stroke in Kuwait: A National Study. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2016;25(9):2145-52.

Sindhu S, Koshy M, Al-Roub AA, Akhter N, Al Zanki S, Ali S, Devarajan S, Ahmad R. Erratum to: 'Differential association of plasma monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 with systemic inflammatory and airway remodeling biomarkers in type-2 diabetic patients with and without asthma. J Diabetes Metab Disord. 2016;15:45.

Sindhu S, Akhter N, Shenouda S, Wilson A, Ahmad R. Plasma fetuin-A/alpha2-HS-glycoprotein correlates negatively with inflammatory cytokines, chemokines and activation biomarkers in individuals with type-2 diabetes. BMC Immunol. 2016;17(1):33.

Khadir A, Kavalakatt S, Abubaker J, Cherian P, Madhu D, Al-Khairi I, Abu-Farha M, Warsame S, Elkum N, Dehbi M, Tiss A. Physical exercise alleviates ER stress in obese humans through reduction in the expression and release of GRP78 chaperone. Metabolism. 2016;65(9):1409-20.

Ehret GB, Ferreira T, Chasman DI, Jackson AU, Schmidt EM, Johnson T, Thorleifsson G, Luan J, Donnelly LA, Kanoni S, …Tuomilehto J, et al. The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals. Nat Genet. 2016;48(10):1171-84.

Sindhu S, Rasheed A. Fetuin a (AHSG) in Metabolic and Inflammatory Diseases: A Foe or A Friend. Diab Obe Intl J. 2016;1(5).

Lek M, Karczewski KJ, Minikel EV, Samocha KE, Banks E, Fennell T, O'Donnell-Luria AH, Ware JS, Hill AJ, Cummings BB,… Tuomilehto J, et al. Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans. Nature. 2016;536(7616):285-91.

Giorgino F, Home PD, Tuomilehto J. Glucose Control and Vascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes: Is the Picture Clear? Diabetes Care. 2016;39 Suppl 2:S187-95.

Fuchsberger C, Flannick J, Teslovich TM, Mahajan A, Agarwala V, Gaulton KJ, Ma C, Fontanillas P, Moutsianas L, McCarthy DJ, Rivas MA, …Tuomilehto J, et al. The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes. Nature. 2016;536(7614):41-7.

Kumari M, Wang X, Lantier L, Lyubetskaya A, Eguchi J, Ahmad R, et al. IRF3 promotes adipose inflammation and insulin resistance and represses browning. J Clin Invest. 2016;126(8):2839-54.

Masoetsa R, Messenger G, Hussein I, Devarajan S, Alsaleh F, Lemay J, Veeramani M. Assessment of the evidence of the use and effectiveness of antifungals for diabetic foot ulcer infections: a systematic review. PROSPERO International prospective register of systematic reviews. 2016

Sindhu S, Al-Roub A, Koshy M, Thomas R, Ahmad R. Palmitate-Induced MMP-9 Expression in the Human Monocytic Cells is Mediated through the TLR4-MyD88 Dependent Mechanism. Cell Physiol Biochem. 2016;39(3):889-900.