2016

Jahromi M. Olfactory Receptor Gene is a Possible MHC-linked Gene. Savant Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences. 2016; 2(7) pp. 169-172

Davidsson L, Al-Ghanim J, Al-Ati T, Al-Hamad N, Al-Mutairi A, Al-Olayan L, et al. Total Energy Expenditure in Obese Kuwaiti Primary School Children Assessed by the Doubly-Labeled Water Technique. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2016;13(10).

Yuan X, Liu H, Wang L, Zhang S, Zhang C, Leng J, Dong L, Lv L, Lv F, Tian H, Tuomilehto J, Hu G. Gestational hypertension and chronic hypertension on the risk of diabetes among gestational diabetes women. J Diabetes Complications. 2016;30(7):1269-74.

Surendran P, Drenos F, Young R, Warren H, Cook JP, Manning AK, Grarup N, Sim X, Barnes DR, Witkowska K…Tuomilehto J, et al. Trans-ancestry meta-analyses identify rare and common variants associated with blood pressure and hypertension. Nat Genet. 2016;48(10):1151-61.

McCarthy S, Das S, Kretzschmar W, Delaneau O, Wood AR, Teumer A, Kang HM, Fuchsberger C, Danecek P, Sharp K… Tuomilehto J, et al. A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation. Nat Genet. 2016;48(10):1279-83.

Kulmala J, Ngandu T, Pajala S, Lehtisalo J, Levälahti E, Antikainen R, Laatikainen T, Oksa H, Peltonen M, Rauramaa R,… Tuomilehto J, et al. Leisure-Time and Occupational Physical Activity in Early and Late Adulthood in Relation to Later Life Physical Functioning. J Phys Act Health. 2016;13(10):1079-87.

Abu-Farha M, Al-Khairi I, Cherian P, Chandy B, Sriraman D, Alhubail A, Al-Refaei F, AlTerki A, Abubaker J. Increased ANGPTL3, 4 and ANGPTL8/betatrophin expression levels in obesity and T2D. Lipids Health Dis. 2016;15(1):181.

Gyberg V, De Bacquer D, Kotseva K, De Backer G, Schnell O, Tuomilehto J, Wood D, Rydén L. Time-saving screening for diabetes in patients with coronary artery disease: a report from EUROASPIRE IV. BMJ Open. 2016;6(12):e013835.

Ahmad R, Kochumon S, Thomas R, Atizado V, Sindhu S. Increased adipose tissue expression of TLR8 in obese individuals with or without type-2 diabetes: significance in metabolic inflammation. J Inflamm (Lond). 2016;13:38.

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.