2020
Female Obesity: An Emerging Threat in Sri Lanka
Jayasinghe I, Hettiarachchi A, Koralegedara I, Amarasinghe G, Agampodi T, Dissanayake K, Warnasekara J, Wickramasinghe N, Abeyrathne P, Agampodi S. Female Obesity: An Emerging Threat in Sri Lanka. Current Developments In Nutrition 2020, 4: nzaa063_043. PMCID: PMC7259207, DOI: 10.1093/cdn/nzaa063_043.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchObesity grade IPrevalence of overweightBurden of overweightPrevalence of underweightMaternal health programsPeriod of gestationBurden of malnutritionLow educational levelPublic health systemCross-sectional analysisDedicated clinicCentral obesityOngoing cohortMiddle-income countriesWaist circumferenceFirst trimesterPregnant womenMean agePregnant mothersBody of evidenceAnthropometric assessmentGrade IHigh riskObesityHealth programs
2017
Nutritional status among primary school children in rural Sri Lanka; a public health challenge for a country with high child health standards
Naotunna NP, Dayarathna M, Maheshi H, Amarasinghe GS, Kithmini VS, Rathnayaka M, Premachandra L, Premarathna N, Rajasinghe PC, Wijewardana G, Agampodi TC, Agampodi SB. Nutritional status among primary school children in rural Sri Lanka; a public health challenge for a country with high child health standards. BMC Public Health 2017, 17: 57. PMID: 28068960, PMCID: PMC5223320, DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-4001-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNorth Central ProvinceNutritional statusPrevalence of anemiaPrevalence of underweightMean hemoglobin concentrationPeripheral blood filmAge z-scorePublic health challengeSchool childrenPre-adolescent childrenBackgroundNutritional statusModerate anemiaSectional studySevere thinnessAnthropometric measurementsMulti-stage clusterPrevalence estimatesConclusionThis studyHemoglobin concentrationRural Sri LankaBlood filmsZ-scoreHealth challengesIron deficiencyPrimary school children
2016
Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants
Analysis and Writing P, Di Cesare M, Bentham J, Stevens G, Zhou B, Danaei G, Lu Y, Bixby H, Cowan M, Riley L, Hajifathalian K, Fortunato L, Taddei C, Bennett J, Ikeda N, Khang Y, Kyobutungi C, Laxmaiah A, Li Y, Lin H, Miranda J, Mostafa A, Turley M, Paciorek C, Gunter M, Ezzati M, Data C, Abdeen Z, Hamid Z, Abu-Rmeileh N, Acosta-Cazares B, Adams R, Aekplakorn W, Aguilar-Salinas C, Ahmadvand A, Ahrens W, Ali M, Alkerwi A, Alvarez-Pedrerol M, Aly E, Amouyel P, Amuzu A, Andersen L, Anderssen S, Andrade D, Anjana R, Aounallah-Skhiri H, Ariansen I, Aris T, Arlappa N, Arveiler D, Assah F, Avdicová M, Azizi F, Babu B, Balakrishna N, Bandosz P, Banegas J, Barbagallo C, Barceló A, Barkat A, Barros M, Bata I, Batieha A, Batista R, Baur L, Beaglehole R, Romdhane H, Benet M, Bernabe-Ortiz A, Bernotiene G, Bettiol H, Bhagyalaxmi A, Bharadwaj S, Bhargava S, Bhatti Z, Bhutta Z, Bi H, Bi Y, Bjerregaard P, Bjertness E, Bjertness M, Björkelund C, Blake M, Blokstra A, Bo S, Bobak M, Boddy L, Boehm B, Boeing H, Boissonnet C, Bongard V, Bovet P, Braeckman L, Bragt M, Brajkovich I, Branca F, Breckenkamp J, Brenner H, Brewster L, Brian G, Bruno G, Bueno-de-Mesquita H, Bugge A, Burns C, de León A, Cacciottolo J, Cama T, Cameron C, Camolas J, Can G, Cândido A, Capuano V, Cardoso V, Carvalho M, Casanueva F, Casas J, Caserta C, Castetbon K, Chamukuttan S, Chan A, Chan Q, Chaturvedi H, Chaturvedi N, Chen C, Chen F, Chen H, Chen S, Chen Z, Cheng C, Chetrit A, Chiolero A, Chiou S, Chirita-Emandi A, Cho Y, Christensen K, Chudek J, Cifkova R, Claessens F, Clays E, Concin H, Cooper C, Cooper R, Coppinger T, Costanzo S, Cottel D, Cowell C, Craig C, Crujeiras A, D’Arrigo G, d’Orsi E, Dallongeville J, Damasceno A, Damsgaard C, Danaei G, Dankner R, Dauchet L, De Backer G, De Bacquer D, de Gaetano G, De Henauw S, De Smedt D, Deepa M, Deev A, Dehghan A, Delisle H, Delpeuch F, Dhana K, Di Castelnuovo A, Dias-da-Costa J, Diaz A, Djalalinia S, P H, Dobson A, Donfrancesco C, Döring A, Doua K, Drygas W, Egbagbe E, Eggertsen R, Ekelund U, Ati J, Elliott P, Engle-Stone R, Erasmus R, Erem C, Eriksen L, la Peña J, Evans A, Faeh D, Fall C, Farzadfar F, Felix-Redondo F, Ferguson T, Fernández-Bergés D, Ferrante D, Ferrari M, Ferreccio C, Ferrieres J, Finn J, Fischer K, Flores E, Föger B, Foo L, Forslund A, Fortmann S, Fouad H, Francis D, do Carmo Franco M, Franco O, Frontera G, Fuchs F, Fuchs S, Fujita Y, Furusawa T, Gaciong Z, Gafencu M, Gareta D, Garnett S, Gaspoz J, Gasull M, Gates L, Geleijnse J, Ghasemian A, Giampaoli S, Gianfagna F, Giovannelli J, Giwercman A, Goldsmith R, Gross M, Rivas J, Gorbea M, Gottrand F, Graff-Iversen S, Grafnetter D, Grajda A, Grammatikopoulou M, Gregor R, Grodzicki T, Grøntved A, Gruden G, Grujic V, Gu D, Guan O, Gudnason V, Guerrero R, Guessous I, Guimaraes A, Gulliford M, Gunnlaugsdottir J, Gunter M, Guo X, Guo Y, Gupta P, Gureje O, Gurzkowska B, Gutierrez L, Gutzwiller F, Halkjær J, Hardy R, Kumar R, Hayes A, He J, Hendriks M, Cadena L, Heshmat R, Hihtaniemi I, Ho S, Ho S, Hobbs M, Hofman A, Hormiga C, Horta B, Houti L, Htay T, Htet A, Htike M, Hu Y, Hussieni A, Huu C, Huybrechts I, Hwalla N, Iacoviello L, Iannone A, Ibrahim M, Ikeda N, Ikram M, Irazola V, Islam M, Iwasaki M, Jackson R, Jacobs J, Jafar T, Jamil K, Jamrozik K, Jasienska G, Jiang C, Joffres M, Johansson M, Jonas J, Jørgensen T, Joshi P, Juolevi A, Jurak G, Jureša V, Kaaks R, Kafatos A, Kalter-Leibovici O, Kapantais E, Kasaeian A, Katz J, Kaur P, Kavousi M, Keil U, Boker L, Kelishadi R, Kemper H, Kengne A, Kersting M, Key T, Khader Y, Khalili D, Khang Y, Khaw K, Khouw I, Kiechl S, Killewo J, Kim J, Kiyohara Y, Klimont J, Kolle E, Kolsteren P, Korrovits P, Koskinen S, Kouda K, Koziel S, Kratzer W, Krokstad S, Kromhout D, Kruger H, Kula K, Kulaga Z, Kumar R, Kusuma Y, Kuulasmaa K, Kyobutungi C, Laamiri F, Laatikainen T, Lachat C, Laid Y, Lam T, Landrove O, Lanska V, Lappas G, Laugsand L, Laxmaiah A, Le Nguyen Bao K, Le T, Leclercq C, Lee J, Lee J, Lehtimäki T, Lekhraj R, León-Muñoz L, Li Y, Lim W, Lima-Costa M, Lin H, Lin X, Linneberg A, Lissner L, Litwin M, Liu J, Lorbeer R, Lotufo P, Lozano J, Luksiene D, Lundqvist A, Lunet N, Lytsy P, Ma G, Machi S, Maggi S, Magliano D, Makdisse M, Malekzadeh R, Malhotra R, Rao K, Manios Y, Mann J, Manzato E, Margozzini P, Markey O, Marques-Vidal P, Marrugat J, Martin-Prevel Y, Martorell R, Masoodi S, Matsha T, Mazur A, Mbanya J, McFarlane S, McGarvey S, McKee M, McLachlan S, McLean R, McNulty B, Yusof S, Mediene-Benchekor S, Meirhaeghe A, Meisinger C, Mendes L, Menezes A, Mensink G, Meshram I, Metspalu A, Mi J, Michaelsen K, Mikkel K, Miller J, Miquel J, Miranda J, Mišigoj-Duraković M, Mohamed M, Mohammad K, Mohammadifard N, Mohan V, Yusoff M, Molbo D, Møller N, Molnár D, Mondo C, Monterrubio E, Monyeki K, Moreira L, Morejon A, Moreno L, Morgan K, Mortensen E, Moschonis G, Mossakowska M, Mostafa A, Mota J, Motlagh M, Motta J, Mu T, Muiesan M, Müller-Nurasyid M, Murphy N, Mursu J, Murtagh E, Musa K, Musil V, Nagel G, Nakamura H, Námešná J, Nang E, Nangia V, Nankap M, Narake S, Navarrete-Muñoz E, Nenko I, Neovius M, Nervi F, Neuhauser H, Nguyen N, Nguyen Q, Nieto-Martínez R, Ning G, Ninomiya T, Nishtar S, Noale M, Norat T, Noto D, Al Nsour M, O’Reilly D, Ochoa-Avilés A, Oh K, Olayan I, Olinto M, Oltarzewski M, Omar M, Onat A, Ordunez P, Ortiz A, Osler M, Osmond C, Ostojic S, Otero J, Overvad K, Paccaud F, Padez C, Pajak A, Palli D, Palloni A, Palmieri L, Panda-Jonas S, Panza F, Parnell W, Parsaeian M, Pednekar M, Peeters P, Peixoto S, Pereira A, Pérez C, Peters A, Peykari N, Pham S, Pigeot I, Pikhart H, Pilav A, Pilotto L, Pistelli F, Pitakaka F, Piwonska A, Piwonski J, Plans-Rubió P, Poh B, Porta M, Portegies M, Poulimeneas D, Pradeepa R, Prashant M, Price J, Puiu M, Punab M, Qasrawi R, Qorbani M, Bao T, Radic I, Radisauskas R, Rahman M, Raitakari O, Raj M, Rao S, Ramachandran A, Ramke J, Ramos R, Rampal S, Rasmussen F, Redon J, Reganit P, Ribeiro R, Riboli E, Rigo F, de Wit T, Ritti-Dias R, Rivera J, Robinson S, Robitaille C, Rodríguez-Artalejo F, del Cristo Rodriguez-Perez M, Rodríguez-Villamizar L, Rojas-Martinez R, Rojroongwasinkul N, Romaguera D, Ronkainen K, Rosengren A, Rouse I, Rubinstein A, Rühli F, Rui O, Ruiz-Betancourt B, Horimoto A, Rutkowski M, Sabanayagam C, Sachdev H, Saidi O, Salanave B, Martinez E, Salomaa V, Salonen J, Salvetti M, Sánchez-Abanto J, Sandjaja, Sans S, Santos D, Santos O, dos Santos R, Santos R, Sardinha L, Sarrafzadegan N, Saum K, Savva S, Scazufca M, Rosario A, Schargrodsky H, Schienkiewitz A, Schmidt I, Schneider I, Schultsz C, Schutte A, Sein A, Sen A, Senbanjo I, Sepanlou S, Shalnova S, Shaw J, Shibuya K, Shin Y, Shiri R, Siantar R, Sibai A, Silva A, Silva D, Simon M, Simons J, Simons L, Sjostrom M, Slowikowska-Hilczer J, Slusarczyk P, Smeeth L, Smith M, Snijder M, So H, Sobngwi E, Soderberg S, Soekatri M, Solfrizzi V, Sonestedt E, Sørensen T, Sorić M, Jérome C, Soumare A, Staessen J, Starc G, Stathopoulou M, Staub K, 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Walton J, Mohamud W, Wang M, Wang Q, Wang Y, Wannamethee S, Wareham N, Weerasekera D, Whincup P, Widhalm K, Widyahening I, Wiecek A, Wilks R, Willeit J, Wojtyniak B, Wong J, Wong T, Woo J, Woodward M, Wu F, Wu J, Wu S, Xu H, Xu L, Yamborisut U, Yan W, Yang X, Yardim N, Ye X, Yiallouros P, Yoshihara A, You Q, Younger-Coleman N, Yusoff A, Zainuddin A, Zambon S, Zdrojewski T, Zeng Y, Zhao D, Zhao W, Zheng Y, Zhou M, Zhu D, Zimmermann E, Cisneros J. Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants. The Lancet 2016, 387: 1377-1396. PMID: 27115820, PMCID: PMC7615134, DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(16)30054-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBody-mass indexMean body-mass indexHighest prevalence of underweightPrevalence of BMI categoriesBody-mass index categoryAdult body-mass indexPopulation-based data sourcesPrevalence of underweightAge-standardised prevalencePrevalence of obesityAdverse health outcomesPopulation-based studyGlobal obesity prevalenceObesity prevalenceBMI categoriesPrevalence of morbid obesityHealth outcomesMeasured heightUnderweightAdult participantsElevated riskMorbid obesityWorld's poorest regionsObesity targetsEstimate trends
2012
Maternal HIV is associated with reduced growth in the first year of life among infants in the Eastern region of Ghana: the Research to Improve Infant Nutrition and Growth (RIING) Project
Lartey A, Marquis GS, Mazur R, Perez‐Escamilla R, Brakohiapa L, Ampofo W, Sellen D, Adu‐Afarwuah S. Maternal HIV is associated with reduced growth in the first year of life among infants in the Eastern region of Ghana: the Research to Improve Infant Nutrition and Growth (RIING) Project. Maternal And Child Nutrition 2012, 10: 604-616. PMID: 22905700, PMCID: PMC4193668, DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2012.00441.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMaternal HIVHIV statusInfant growthInfant HIV statusInfants of HIVMaternal HIV statusChildren of HIVPrevalence of underweightPrevalence of stuntingAge z-scoreMonths of ageFirst yearLongitudinal study designHIV-unknownHIV-negativeHIV-positiveInfant weightThird trimesterPregnant womenGhanaian infantsInfant nutritionHIVAnalysis of covarianceMost mothersInfants
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