• Effects of covid-19 lockdown on physical activity and dietary behaviors in kuwait: A cross-sectional study 

      Salman, Ahmad; Sigodo, Kennedy Ouma; Al-Ghadban, Fatima; Al-Lahou, Badreya; Alnashmi, Maha; ... more authors ( MDPI AG , 2021 , Article)
      The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has brought about drastic measures that have significantly altered the norms of daily living. These measures have affected human behaviors in disparate ways. This study seeks to ...
    • Global variation in diabetes diagnosis and prevalence based on fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1c 

      Zhou, Bin; Sheffer, Kate E.; Bennett, James E.; Gregg, Edward W.; Danaei, Goodarz; ... more authors ( Nature Medicine , 2023 , Article)
      Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) are both used to diagnose diabetes, but these measurements can identify different people as having diabetes. We used data from 117 population-based studies and ...
    • Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults 

      Nowell H, Phelps; Singleton, Rosie K; Zhou, Bin; Heap, Rachel A; Mishra, Anu; ... more authors ( Elsevier B.V. , 2024 , Article)
      BackgroundUnderweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from ...