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Anthropometric measures and their association with risk factors for cardio-metabolic diseases in Kenyan adults.
Annals of Human Biology.
45.
2018
Deriving an optimal threshold of waist circumference for detecting cardiometabolic risk in sub-Saharan Africa.
International Journal of Obesity.
42.
2018
Risk factors of pre‐hypertension and hypertension among non‐pregnant women of reproductive age in northeastern Tanzania: a community based cross‐sectional study.
Tropical Medicine and International Health.
23.
2018
Association Between Plasma Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin Type 9 and the Presence of Metabolic Syndrome in a Predominantly Rural-Based Sub-Saharan African Population.
Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders.
15.
2017
Comparative study of HbA1c and fasting plasma glucose vs the oral glucose tolerance test for diagnosis of diabetes in people with tuberculosis.
Diabetic Medicine.
34.
2017
Ethnic differences in anthropometric measures and abdominal fat distribution: a cross-sectional pooled study in Inuit, Africans and Europeans.
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
71.
2017
High prevalence of diabetes and anthropometric heterogeneity among tuberculosis patients in Pakistan.
Tropical Medicine and International Health.
22.
2017
The obesity-associated risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality is not lower in Inuit compared to Europeans: A cohort study of Greenlandic Inuit, Nunavik Inuit and Danes.
Atherosclerosis.
265.
2017
Transient cardiac dysfunction but elevated cardiac and kidney biomarkers 24 h following an ultra-distance running event in Mexican Tarahumara.
Extreme Physiology & Medicine.
6.
2017
Tuberculosis-Related Diabetes: Is It Reversible after Complete Treatment?.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
97.
2017
Validation of bioelectrical impedance analysis in Ethiopian adults with HIV.
Journal of Nutritional Science.
6.
2017
Cardiovascular risk factors in rural Kenyans are associated with differential age gradients, but not modified by sex or ethnicity.
Annals of Human Biology.
43.
2016
Hemoglobin levels and blood pressure are associated in rural black africans.
American Journal of Human Biology.
28.
2016
Several Conventional Risk Markers Suggesting Presence of Albuminuria Are Weak Among Rural Africans With Hypertension.
Journal of Clinical Hypertension.
18.
2016
Bengt Saltin 1935–2014.
Annals of Human Biology.
42.
2015
Calibration of bioelectrical impedance analysis for body composition assessment in Ethiopian infants using air-displacement plethysmography.
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
69.
2015
Effects of an outdoor bicycle-based intervention in healthy rural Indian men with normal and low birth weight.
Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.
6.
2015
Geographic differences in the associations between impaired glucose regulation and cardiovascular risk factors among young adults.
Diabetic Medicine.
32.
2015
Physical activity and capacity at initiation of antiretroviral treatment in HIV patients in Ethiopia.
Epidemiology and Infection.
143.
2015
Physical activity energy expenditure vs cardiorespiratory fitness level in impaired glucose metabolism.
Diabetologia.
58.
2015
HbA1c, fasting and 2 h plasma glucose in current, ex- and never-smokers: a meta-analysis.
Diabetologia.
57.
2014
Insulin resistance and beta-cell function in different ethnic groups in Kenya: the role of abdominal fat distribution.
Acta Diabetologica.
51.
2014
Normalization of elevated cardiac, kidney, and hemolysis plasma markers within 48 h in Mexican Tarahumara runners following a 78 km race at moderate altitude.
American Journal of Human Biology.
26.
2014
Random blood glucose may be used to assess long‐term glycaemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in a rural African clinical setting.
Tropical Medicine and International Health.
19.
2014
The Association Between Conventional Risk Factors and Diabetes Is Weak Among Urban Tanzanians.
Diabetes Care.
37.
2014
The use of combined heart rate response and accelerometry to assess the level and predictors of physical activity in tuberculosis patients in Tanzania.
Epidemiology and Infection.
142.
2014
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Background characteristics of 803 tuberculosis cases and 350 controls (n = 1153)1..
public-library-of-science.
2013
Diabetes and all levels of IFG/IGT as predictors of pulmonary tuberculosis with odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval based on 803 pulmonary tuberculosis cases and 350 neighbourhood controls (N = 1153)..
public-library-of-science.
2013
Distribution of impaired glycaemia and diabetes and level of blood glucose based on 803 pulmonary tuberculosis cases and 350 neighbourhood controls (n = 1153)1..
public-library-of-science.
2013
Diabetes is a strong predictor of mortality during tuberculosis treatment: a prospective cohort study among tuberculosis patients from Mwanza, Tanzania.
Tropical Medicine and International Health.
2013