DDI Publications List

Al-Mnaser A, Dakheel M, Alkandari F, Woodward M. Polyphenolic phytochemicals as natural feed additives to control bacterial pathogens in the chicken gut. Arch Microbiol. 2022 Apr 12;204(5):253. doi: 10.1007/s00203-022-02862-5. PMID: 35412092; PMCID: PMC9001821.

Brodin P, Casari G, Townsend L, O’Farrelly C, Tancevski I, Löffler-Ragg J, Mogensen TH, Casanova JL; COVID Human Genetic Effort..Al-Mulla F. et al. Studying severe long COVID to understand post-infectious disorders beyond COVID-19. Nat Med. 2022 Apr 5. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-01766-7. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35383311.

Al-Mass A, Poursharifi P, Peyot ML, Lussier R, Levens EJ, Guida J, Mugabo Y, Possik E, Ahmad R, Al-Mulla F, Sladek R, Madiraju SRM, Prentki M. Glycerol-3-phosphate phosphatase operates a glycerol shunt in pancreatic β-cells that controls insulin secretion and metabolic stress. Mol Metab. 2022 Mar 7:101471. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2022.101471. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35272070.

Abd-Alrazaq A, Alajlani M, Alhuwail D, Toro CT, Giannicchi A, Ahmed A,Makhlouf A, Househ M. The Effectiveness and Safety of Serious Games for Improving Cognitive Abilities Among Elderly People With Cognitive Impairment: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JMIR Serious Games. 2022 Mar 10;10(1):e34592. doi: 10.2196/34592. PMID: 35266877; PMCID: PMC8949701.

Patel SJ, Liu N, Piaker S, Gulko A, Andrade ML, Heyward FD, Sermersheim T,Edinger N, Srinivasan H, Emont MP, Westcott GP, Luther J, Chung RT, Yan S, Kumari M, Thomas R, Deleye Y, Tchernof A, White PJ, Baselli GA, Meroni M, De Jesus DF, Ahmad R, Kulkarni RN, Valenti L, Tsai L, Rosen ED. Hepatic IRF3 fuels dysglycemia in obesity through direct regulation of Ppp2r1b. Sci Transl Med. 2022 Mar 23;14(637):eabh3831. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abh3831. Epub 2022 Mar 23. PMID: 35320000.

Shiju R, Akhil A, Thankachan S, Tuomilehto J, Al Arouj M, Bennakhi A. Safety Assessment of Glucose-Lowering Drugs and Importance of Structured Education during Ramadan: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Diabetes Res. 2022 Feb 18;2022:3846253. doi: 10.1155/2022/3846253. PMID: 35242880; PMCID: PMC8886741.

Oguoma VM, Abu-Farha M, Coffee NT, Alsharrah S, Al-Refaei FH, Abubaker J,Daniel M, Al-Mulla F. Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Obese Phenotypes among Arabs and South Asians: Prevalence and Relationship with Cardiometabolic Indicators. Nutrients. 2022 Feb 22;14(5):915. doi: 10.3390/nu14050915. PMID: 35267891; PMCID: PMC8912281.

Kavalakatt S, Khadir A, Kochumon S, Madhu D, Devarajan S, Hammad M, Alam-Eldin N, Warsame S, Al-Kandari H, AlMahdi M, Ahmad R, Koistinen HA, Tuomilehto J, Al-Mulla F, Abubaker J, Tiss A. Urocortin Neuropeptide Levels Are Impaired in the PBMCs of Overweight Children. Nutrients. 2022 Jan 18;14(3):429. doi: 10.3390/nu14030429. PMID: 35276788; PMCID: PMC8839374.

Khan A, Waris H, Rafique M, Suleman M, Mohammad A, Ali SS, Khan T, Waheed Y, Liao C, Wei DQ. The Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant of SARS-CoV-2 binds to the hACE2 receptor more strongly and escapes the antibody response: Insights from structural and simulation data. Int J Biol Macromol. 2022 Mar 1;200:438-448. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2022.01.059. Epub 2022 Jan 19. PMID: 35063482; PMCID: PMC8767976.

John O, Sarbadhikari SN, Prabhu T, Goel A, Thomas A, Shroff S, Allaudin F, Weerabaddana C, Alhuwail D, Koirala U, Johnrose J, Codyre P, Bleaden A, Singh S, Bajaj S. Implementation and Experiences of Telehealth: Balancing Policies With Practice in Countries of South Asia, Kuwait, and the European Union. Interact J Med Res. 2022 Feb 8;11(1):e30755. doi: 10.2196/30755. PMID: 35133279.

Baskaradoss JK, Tavares M, Al-Mulla F, Al-Ozairi E, Abu-Farha M, Bin-Hasan S, Alsumait A, Devarajan S, Alqaderi H. Association between Frequency of Toothbrushing and Metabolic Syndrome among Adolescents: A 5-Year Follow-Up Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 3;19(1):508. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19010508. PMID: 35010768; PMCID: PMC8744688

Ali H, Abu-Farha M, Alshawaf E, Devarajan S, Bahbahani Y, Al-Khairi I, Cherian P, Alsairafi Z, Vijayan V, Al-Mulla F, Al Attar A, Abubaker J. Association of significantly elevated plasma levels of NGAL and IGFBP4 in patients with diabetic nephropathy. BMC Nephrol. 2022 Feb 11;23(1):64. doi: 10.1186/s12882-022-02692-z. PMID: 35148702; PMCID: PMC8840773.

Al-Ahmad M, Alsaleh S, Al-Reefy H, Al Abduwani J, Nasr I, Al Abri R, Alamadi AMH, Fraihat AA, Alterki A, Abuzakouk M, Marglani O, Rand HA. Expert Opinion on Biological Treatment of Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps in the Gulf Region. J Asthma Allergy. 2022 Jan 4;15:1-12. doi: 10.2147/JAA.S321017. PMID: 35018101; PMCID: PMC8742580

Abd-Alrazaq A, Al-Jafar E, Alajlani M, Toro C, Alhuwail D, Ahmed A, Reagu SM, Al-Shorbaji N, Househ M. The Effectiveness of Serious Games for Alleviating Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JMIR Serious Games. 2022 Jan 14;10(1):e32331. doi: 10.2196/32331. PMID: 35029530; PMCID: PMC8800090

Abd-Alrazaq A, Alajlani M, Alhuwail D, Schneider J, Akhu-Zaheya L, Ahmed A, Househ M. The Effectiveness of Serious Games in Alleviating Anxiety: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JMIR Serious Games. 2022 Feb 14;10(1):e29137. doi: 10.2196/29137. PMID: 35156932

Hassanein M, Afandi B, Yakoob Ahmedani M, Mohammad Alamoudi R, Alawadi F, Bajaj HS, Basit A,Bennakhi A, El Sayed AA, Hamdy O, Hanif W, Jabbar A, Kleinebreil L, Lessan N, Shaltout I, Mohamad Wan Bebakar W, Abdelgadir E, Abdo S, Al Ozairi E, Al Saleh Y, Alarouj M, Ali T, Ali Almadani A, Helmy Assaad- Khalil S, Mohammed K Bashier A, Arifi Beshyah S, Akif Buyukbese M, Ahmad Chowdhury T, Norou Diop S, Samir Elbarbary N, Elhadd TA, Eliana F, Ezzat Faris M, Hafidh K, Hussein Z, Iraqi H, Kaplan W, Khan TS, Khunti K, Maher S, Malek R, Ahmed Malik R, Mohamed M, Sayed Kamel Mohamed M, Ahmed Mohamed N, Pathan S, Rashid F, Sahay RK, Taha Salih B, Sandid MA, Shaikh S, Slim I, Tayeb K, Mohd Yusof BN, Binte Zainudin S. Diabetes and Ramadan: Practical guidelines 2021. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2022 Jan 8:109185.doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2021.109185.Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35016991

Kavalakatt S, Khadir A, Madhu D, Devarajan S, Warsame S, AlKandari H, AlMahdi M, Koistinen HA, Al-Mulla F, Tuomilehto J, Abubaker J, Tiss A. Circulating levels of urocortin neuropeptides are impaired in children with overweight. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2022 Feb;30(2):472-481. doi: 10.1002/oby.23356. PMID: 35088550.

Sarah Qabazard, Dalia Al-Abdulrazzaq, Hessa Al-Kandari, Mariam Ayed, Zaid Alharbash, Muna Al-Khabbaz, Khaled Kalander, Saadoun Bin-Hassan, Abdulla Alfraij, Mohammad Alghounaim, Khaled Alsaeid, Hashem Al-Hashemi. The Pediatric COVID-19 Registry in Kuwait (PCR-Q8): Establishment and Results of Pilot Phase. Medical Principles and Practice

Alhuwail D, Al-Jafar E, Abdulsalam Y, AlDuaij S. Information Security Awareness and Behaviors of Health Care Professionals at Public Health Care Facilities. Appl Clin Inform. 2021 Aug;12(4):924-932. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1735527. Epub 2021 Sep 29. PMID: 34587638; PMCID: PMC8481013.

Sancho-Shimizu V, Brodin P, Cobat A, Biggs CM, Toubiana J, Lucas CL, Henrickson SE, Belot A; MIS-C@CHGE, Tangye SG, Milner JD, Levin M, Abel L, Bogunovic D, Casanova JL, Zhang SY. Al Mulla F..et al. SARS-CoV-2-related MIS-C: A key to the viral and genetic causes of Kawasaki disease? J Exp Med. 2021 Jun 7;218(6):e20210446. doi: 10.1084/jem.20210446. PMID: 33904890; PMCID: PMC8080850.