2015

Channanath AM, Farran B, Behbehani K, Thanaraj TA. Association between body mass index and onset of hypertension in men and women with and without diabetes: a cross-sectional study using national health data from the State of Kuwait in the Arabian Peninsula. BMJ open. 2015;5(6):e007043.

Abu-Farha M, Abubaker J, Al-Khairi I, Cherian P, Noronha F, Hu FB,Behbehani K, Elkum N. Higher plasma betatrophin/ANGPTL8 level in Type 2 Diabetes subjects does not correlate with blood glucose or insulin resistance. Sci Rep. 2015;5:10949.

AlArouj M. Risk stratification of Ramadan fasting in person with diabetes. J Pak Med Assoc. 2015;65(5 Suppl 1):S18-21.

Schvartz D, Bergsten P, Baek H, Barba De La Rosa A, Cantley J, Dayon L, …Tiss A, et al. The Human Diabetes Proteome Project (HDPP): The 2014 update. Translational Proteomics. 2015;8–9:1-7.

Shihab PK, Al-Roub A, Al-Ghanim M, Al-Mass A, Behbehani K, Ahmad R. TLR2 and AP-1/NF-kappaB are involved in the regulation of MMP-9 elicited by heat killed Listeria monocytogenes in human monocytic THP-1 cells. J Inflamm (Lond). 2015;12:32.

Al-Khawari M, Shaltout A, Qabazard M, Al-Sane H, Elkum N. Prevalence of thyroid autoantibodies in children, adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes in Kuwait. Med Princ Pract. 2015;24(3):280-4.

Ali H, Al-Yatama MK, Abu-Farha M, Behbehani K, Al Madhoun A. Multi-lineage differentiation of human umbilical cord Wharton's Jelly Mesenchymal Stromal Cells mediates changes in the expression profile of stemness markers. PloS one. 2015;10(4):e0122465.

Abu-Farha M, Behbehani K, Elkum N. High adiponectin levels in lean Arab women compared to Asian women. Biomark Res. 2015;3:7

Khadir A, Tiss A, Kavalakatt S, Behbehani K, Dehbi M, Elkum N. Gender-specific association of oxidative stress and inflammation with cardiovascular risk factors in Arab population. Mediators Inflamm. 2015;2015:512603.

John SE, Thareja G, Hebbar P, Behbehani K, Thanaraj TA, Alsmadi O. Kuwaiti population subgroup of nomadic Bedouin ancestry-Whole genome sequence and analysis. Genomics data. 2015;3:116-27.

Akhtar S, Alroughani R, Al-Shammari A, Al-Abkal J, Ayad Y. Month of birth and risk of multiple sclerosis in Kuwait: a population-based registry study. Mult Scler. 2015;21(2):147-54.

Thareja G, John SE, Hebbar P, Behbehani K, Thanaraj TA, Alsmadi O. Sequence and analysis of a whole genome from Kuwaiti population subgroup of Persian ancestry. BMC genomics. 2015;16:92.

Khadir A, Tiss A, Abubaker J, Abu-Farha M, Al-Khairi I, Cherian P, John J, Kavalakatt S, Warsame S, Al-Madhoun A, Al-Ghimlas F, Elkum N. MAP kinase phosphatase DUSP1 is overexpressed in obese humans and modulated by physical exercise. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2015;308(1):E71-83.