Browsing Biomedical Research Center by Subject "Obesity"

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    • Association between lifestyle factors and COVID-19: findings from Qatar Biobank 

      Akbar, Zoha; Kunhipurayil, Hasna H.; Saliba, Jessica; Ahmad, Jamil; Al-Mansoori, Layla; ... more authors ( preprints , 2023 , Article)
      Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) exhibits a significant variation in presentation of symptoms ranging from mild to severe life-threatening symptoms, including death. COVID-19 infection susceptibility has been linked ...

    • Association between waterpipe smoking and obesity: Population-based study in Qatar 

      Alkeilani, Abdulla A.; Khalil, Abdelrahman A.; Azzan, Afaf M.; Al-Khal, Noof A.; Al-Nabit, Noora H.; ... more authors ( European Publishing , 2022 , Article)
      Introduction: Over the past decade obesity prevalence has been increasing rapidly in the Gulf region (GR) including Qatar, becoming one of the major health issues in the region. Concomitantly, waterpipe (WP) smoking is ...

    • Associations of Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphism rs1544410 with Adiposity Phenotypes 

      Sharif, Elham; Swaidan, Nuha; Shurbaji, Samar; Rizk, Nasser M. ( MedCrave , 2016 , Article)
      Background: Vitamin D receptor (VDR) is present on adipocytes, and many studies were performed to investigate the association between polymorphisms in VDR gene with obesity. However, in the Arab Gulf populations, whereas ...

    • Human microbiome and its association with health and diseases 

      Al-Thani, Asma; Marei, Hany E.; Hamdi, Wedad S.; Nasrallah, Gheyath K.; El Zowalaty, Mohamed E.; ... more authors ( Wiley , 2016 , Article)
      Human microbiota are distinct communities of microorganisms that resides at different body niches. Exploration of the human microbiome has become a reality due to the availability of powerful metagenomics and metatranscriptomic ...

    • Impact of physical exercise on gut microbiome, inflammation, and the pathobiology of metabolic disorders 

      Sohail, Muhammad U.; Yassine, Hadi M.; Sohail, Aaqib; Al Thani, Asmaa A. ( Society for Biomedical Diabetes Research , 2019 , Article)
      BACKGROUND: The gastrointestinal tract (GIT) harbors a complex and diverse microbial composition that outnumbers our own body cells and their gene contents. These microbes play a significant role in host metabolism and ...

    • Metabolic consequences of obesity on the hypercoagulable state of polycystic ovary syndrome. 

      Moin, Abu Saleh Md; Sathyapalan, Thozhukat; Diboun, Ilhame; Elrayess, Mohamed A; Butler, Alexandra E; ... more authors ( Nature Research , 2021 , Article)
      Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) women have a hypercoagulable state; however, whether this is intrinsically due to PCOS or, alternatively, a consequence of its metabolic complications is unclear. We determined plasma ...

    • The Qatar Biobank: background and methods 

      Al Kuwari, Hanan; Al-Thani, Asma; Al Marri, Ajayeb; Al Kaabi, Abdulla; Abderrahim, Hadi; ... more authors ( BioMed Central , 2015 , Article)
      Background: The Qatar Biobank aims to collect extensive lifestyle, clinical, and biological information from up to 60,000 men and women Qatari nationals and long-term residents (individuals living in the country for ≥15 ...

    • Role of the Gastrointestinal Tract Microbiome in the Pathophysiology of Diabetes Mellitus. 

      Sohail, Muhammad U; Althani, Asmaa; Anwar, Haseeb; Rizzi, Roberto; Marei, Hany E ( Hindawi Publishing Corporation , 2017 , Article)
      The incidence of diabetes mellitus is rapidly increasing throughout the world. Although the exact cause of the disease is not fully clear, perhaps, genetics, ethnic origin, obesity, age, and lifestyle are considered as few ...