2017

Hebbar P, Alkayal F, Nizam R, Melhem M, Elkum N, John SE, Abufarha M, Alsmadi O, Thanaraj TA. The TCN2 variant of rs9606756 [Ile23Val] acts as risk loci for obesity-related traits and mediates by interacting with Apo-A1. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md). 2017;25(6):1098-108.

Hassanein M, Al-Arouj M, Hamdy O, Bebakar WMW, Jabbar A, Al-Madani A, Hanif W, Lessan N, Basit A, Tayeb K, Omar M, Abdallah K, Al Twaim A, Buyukbese MA, El-Sayed AA, Ben-Nakhi A. International Diabetes Federation (IDF), in collaboration with the Diabetes and Ramadan (DAR) International Alliance. Diabetes and Ramadan: Practical guidelines. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2017;126:303-16.

Gilis-Januszewska A, Lindstrom J, Tuomilehto J, Piwonska-Solska B, Topor-Madry R, Szybinski Z, et al. Sustained diabetes risk reduction after real life and primary health care setting implementation of the diabetes in Europe prevention using lifestyle, physical activity and nutritional intervention (DE-PLAN) project. BMC Public Health. 2017;17(1):198.

Channanath AM, Elkum N, Al-Abdulrazzaq D, Tuomilehto J, Shaltout A, Thanaraj TA. Ethnic differences in association of high body mass index with early onset of Type 1 diabetes - Arab ethnicity as case study. PLoS One. 2017;12(4):e0175728.

Boudiba A, Al-Arouj M, Robertson LI, Chantelot JM, Al-Rubeaan KA, Charpentier G. Effectiveness and safety of basal-bolus therapy (insulin glargine+insulin glulisine) in patients with type 1 diabetes previously uncontrolled on any insulin regimen: multinational phase-IV study. Diab Manag 2017;7(1).

Al-Rashed F, Kochumon S, Usmani S, Sindhu S, Ahmad R. Pam3CSK4 Induces MMP-9 Expression in Human Monocytic THP-1 Cells. Cell Physiol Biochem. 2017;41(5):1993-2003.

Melhem M, Abu-Farha M, Antony D, Madhoun AA, Bacchelli C, Alkayal F, AlKhairi I, John S, Alomari M, Beales PL, Alsmadi O. Novel G6B gene variant causes familial autosomal recessive thrombocytopenia and anemia. Eur J Haematol. 2017;98(3):218-27.

Goodson JM, Hartman ML, Shi P, Hasturk H, Yaskell T, Vargas J, Song X, Cugini M, Barake R, Alsmadi O, Al-Mutawa S, Ariga J, Soparkar P, Behbehani J, Behbehani K. The salivary microbiome is altered in the presence of a high salivary glucose concentration. PLoS One. 2017;12(3):e0170437.

Bekpen C, Kunzel S, Xie C, Eaaswarkhanth M, Lin YL, Gokcumen O, et al. Segmental duplications and evolutionary acquisition of UV damage response in the SPATA31 gene family of primates and humans. BMC Genomics. 2017;18(1):222.

Abu-Farha M, Cherian P, Al-Khairi I, Madhu D, Tiss A, Warsam S, Alhubail A, Sriraman D, Al-Refaei F, Abubaker J. Plasma and adipose tissue level of angiopoietin-like 7 (ANGPTL7) are increased in obesity and reduced after physical exercise. PLoS One. 2017;12(3):e0173024.

Omar D, Alsanae H, Al Khawari M, Abdulrasoul M, Rahme Z, Al Refaei F, Behbehani K, Shaltout A. An Audit of Clinical Practice in a Single Centre in Kuwait: Management of Children on Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion and Cardiovascular Risk Factors Screening. Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2017; 11: 19–27.

Marouli E, Graff M, Medina-Gomez C, Lo, KS, Wood AR, Kjaer TR, Fine RS, Lu Y, Schurmann C, Highland HM...Tuomilehto J, et al. Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height. Nature. 2017;542(7640):186-90.

Jalkh N, Chouery E, Haidar Z, Khater C, Atallah D, Ali H, Marafie MJ, Al-Mulla MR, Al-Mulla F, Megarbane A. Next-generation sequencing in familial breast cancer patients from Lebanon. BMC Med Genomics. 2017;10(1):8.

Gheith O, Halim MA, Othman N, Al-Otaibi T, Nair P, Nampoory N. Hepatitis C Virus in the Renal Transplant Population: An Update With Focus on the New Era of Antiviral Regimens. Exp Clin Transplant. 2017;15(1):10-20.

Cefalu WT, Buse JB, Tuomilehto J, Fleming GA, Ferrannini E, Gerstein HC, Bennett PH, Ramachandran A, Raz I, Rosenstock J, Kahn SE. Response to Comment on Cefalu et al. Update and Next Steps for Real-World Translation of Interventions for Type 2 Diabetes Prevention: Reflections From a Diabetes Care Editors' Expert Forum. (Diabetes Care 2016;39:1186-1201.) Diabetes Care. 2017;40(2):e23-e24.

Behbehani R, Abu Al-Hassan A, Al-Salahat A, Sriraman D, Oakley JD, Alroughani R. Optical coherence tomography segmentation analysis in relapsing remitting versus progressive multiple sclerosis. PLoS One. 2017;12(2):e0172120.

Barengo NC, Teusch Y, Moltchanov V, Laatikainen T, Jousilahti P, Tuomilehto J. Coronary heart disease incidence and mortality, and all-cause mortality among diabetic and non-diabetic people according to their smoking behavior in Finland. Tob Induc Dis, 2017;15:12.

Barengo NC, Tamayo DC, Tono T, Tuomilehto J. A Colombian diabetes risk score for detecting undiagnosed diabetes and impaired glucose regulation. Prim Care Diabetes. 2017;11(1):86-93.

Ali H, Bitar MS, Al Madhoun A, Marafie M, Al-Mulla F. Functionally-focused algorithmic analysis of high resolution microarray-CGH genomic landscapes demonstrates comparable genomic copy number aberrations in MSI and MSS sporadic colorectal cancer. PLoS One. 2017;12(2):e0171690.

Zhang T, Wang P, Liu H, Wang L, Li W, Leng J, Li N, Zhang S ...Tuomilehto J, et al. Physical Activity, TV Watching Time, Sleeping, and Risk of Obesity and Hyperglycemia in the Offspring of Mothers with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. Sci Rep. 2017;7:41115.