2020

Alhuwail D, AlSharrah S, Coffee NT, Al-Refaei F, Daniel M. Place and Health Infrastructure in the Gulf Cooperation Council: A Systematic Scoping Review of GIS Applications in Health. Geospatial Health 2020; volume 15:887

Alhubail A, Sewify M, Messenger G, Masoetsa R, Hussain I, Nair S, Tiss A. Microbiological profile of diabetic foot ulcers in Kuwait. PLoS One. 2020 Dec 30;15(12):e0244306. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244306. PMID: 33378365.

Sattar N, Boyle JG, Al-Ozairi E. Testosterone replacement to prevent type 2 diabetes? Not just yet. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2021 Jan;9(1):5-6. doi:10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30373-9. PMID: 33338416.

Al-Sayegh M, Ali H, Jamal MH, ElGindi M, Chanyong T, Al-Awadi K, Abu-Farha M. Mouse Embryonic Fibroblast Adipogenic Potential: A Comprehensive Transcriptome Analysis. Adipocyte. 2021 Dec;10(1):1-20. doi: 10.1080/21623945.2020.1859789.PMID: 33345692.

Heith O, Othman N, Al-Otaibi T, Mahmoud T, Abduo H, Mahmoud F, Halim M, Maher A, Al-Refaei F, Nampoory N. ASSESSMENT OF NEUROPATHY AMONG RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS WITH POST-TRANSPLANT DIABETES MELLITUS: KUWAIT EXPERIENCE, Transplantation: September 2020 – Volume 104 – Issue S3 – p S390 doi: 10.1097/01.tp.0000700556.85146.45

Gil-Recio C, Montori S, Vallejo C, Al Demour S, Ferrés-Padró E, Barajas M, Martin C, Al Madhoun A, Atari M. Directed differentiation of Dental Pulp Pluripotent-like Stem Cells differentiation into Hepatocyte-like Cells. BioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.09.418780

Eaaswarkhanth M, Pathak AK, Ongaro L, Montinaro F, Metspalu M, Al-Mulla F, Thanaraj* TA. Fine-scale population structure reveals high genetic heterogeneity of the Kuwaiti population in the Arabian Peninsula. BioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.23.393892.

Abu-Farha M, Al-Mulla F, Thanaraj TA, Kavalakatt S, Ali H, Abdul Ghani M, Abubaker J. Impact of Diabetes in Patients Diagnosed With COVID-19. Front. Immunol., 01 December 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.576818

Abu-Farha M, Al-Sabah S, Hammad MM., Hebbar P, Channanath A, John SE, Taher I, Almaeen A, Ghazy A, Mohammad A, Abubaker J, Arefanian H, Al-Mulla F, Thanaraj TA. Prognostic Genetic Markers for Thrombosis in COVID-19 Patients: A Focused Analysis on D-Dimer, Homocysteine and Thromboembolism, Front. Pharmacol.09 December 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2020.587451

Al Ozairi E., Alroudhan, D., Alsaeed D., Voase, N., Hasan, A., Gill, J. M.R., Sattar, N., Welsh, P., Gray, C. M., Boonpor, J., Celis-Morales, C., and Gray, S. R. Skeletal muscle and metabolic health – how do we increase muscle mass and function in people with type 2 diabetes. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaa835

Haddad D, John SE, Mohammad A, Hammad MM, Hebbar P, Channanath A, Nizam R, Al-Qabandi S, Al Madhoun A, Alshukry A, Ali H, Thanaraj TA, Al-Mulla F. SARS-CoV-2: Proof of recombination between strains and emergence of possibly more virulent ones. medRxiv 2020.11.11.20229765; doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.11.20229765

Al Madhoun A, Haddad D, Al-Tarrah M, Jacob S, Al-Ali W, Nizam, R. Miranda L, Al-Rashed F, Sindhu S, Ahmad R, Bitar M.S, Al-Mulla F. Comparative Transcriptome Analyses of Metastatic and Non-Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Cells Delineate Differential Mechanisms of CHOP Upregulation in Response to ONC201 Treatment. Preprints 2020, 2020110497 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202011.0497.v1).

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants. Lancet. 2020 Nov 7;396(10261):1511-1524. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31859-6. PMID: 33160572; PMCID: PMC7658740.

Alqaderi H, Al-Ozairi E, Bin-Hasan S, Tavares M, Goodson JM, Alsumait A, Abu-Farha M, Abubaker J, Devarajan S, Almuhana N, Al-Mulla F. Mediation effect of C-reactive protein in the relationship between abdominal obesity and intermediate hyperglycemia in Kuwaiti adolescents. Biomark Med. 2020 Oct;14(15):1427-1437. doi: 10.2217/bmm-2020-0282. Epub 2020 Nov 5. PMID: 33151093.

Asadzadeh M, Dashti M, Ahmad S, Alfouzan W, Alameer A. Whole genome and targeted-amplicon sequencing of fluconazole-susceptible and -resistant Candida parapsilosis isolates from Kuwait reveals a previously undescribed N1132D polymorphism in CDR1. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2020 Nov 30:AAC.01633-20. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01633-20. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33257445

Ali H, Alshukry A, Marafie SK, AlRukhayes M, Ali Y, Abbas MB, Al-Taweel A, Bukhamseen Y, Dashti MH, Al-Shammari A, Abu-Farha M, AbuBaker J, Al-Mulla F. Outcomes of COVID-19: Disparities by ethnicity. Infect Genet Evol. 2020 Nov 24:104639. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104639. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33246086; PMCID: PMC7683943.

Alqabandi N, Al-Ozairi E, Ahmed A, Ross EL, Jamison RN. Secondary Impact of Social Media via Text Message Screening for Type 2 Diabetes Risk in Kuwait: Survey Study. JMIR Diabetes. 2020 Nov 12;5(4):e20532. doi: 10.2196/20532. PMID: 33180021.

Alali WQ, Longenecker JC, Alwotyan R, AlKandari H, Al-Mulla F, Al Duwairi Q. Prevalence of smoking in the Kuwaiti adult population in 2014: a cross-sectional study. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2020 Nov 8:1–15. doi: 10.1007/s11356-020-11464-x. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33161520; PMCID: PMC7648895.

Alshukry A, Ali H, Ali Y, Al-Taweel T, Abu-Farha M, AbuBaker J, Devarajan S, Dashti AA, Bandar A, Taleb H, Al Bader A, Aly NY, Al-Ozairi E, Al-Mulla F, Bu Abbas M. Clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in Kuwait. PLoS One. 2020 Nov 20;15(11):e0242768. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242768. PMID: 33216801.

Al-Rashed F, Thomas R, Al-Roub A, Al-Mulla F, Ahmad R. LPS Induces GM-CSF Production by Breast Cancer MDA-MB-231 Cells via Long-Chain Acyl-CoA Synthetase 1. Molecules. 2020 Oct 14;25(20):4709. doi: 10.3390/molecules25204709. PMID: 33066575; PMCID: PMC7587378