PUBLICATIONS – 2008
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NT Raymond, L Varadhan, D R Reynold, K Bush, S Sankaranarayanan, S
Bellary, AH Barnett, S Kumar, JP O’Hare on behalf of the UKADS
Retinopathy Study Group. Higher prevalence of retinopathy in diabetic
patients of South Asian ethnicity compared to white Euorpeans in the
community: A cross section. Diabetes Care (Mar 2009), Volume 32, No 3.
Kostas, L, Kumar S. Pharmacotherapy of obesity. Therapy (March 2008);
Vol 5, No 2, Pages 223-235. (doi: 10.2217/14750708.5.2.223)
Counterweight Programme Team. John Reckless, Maria McQuigg, Jenny
Brown, John Broom, Rachel Laws, Paula Noble, Sudhesh Kumar, Louise
McCombie, Mike Lean, Felicity Lyons, Sarika Mongia, Gary Frost, Marney
Quinn, Julian Barth, Sarah Haynes, Nick Finer, David Haslam, Hazel Ross,
David Hole, Steven Radziwonik, David Morrison, Billy Sloan. Evaluation of
the Counterweight Programme for Obesity Management in Primary Care.
(2008) British Journal of General Practice - in press
Nick Freemantle, Jeremy Holmes, Andrew Hockey, Sudhesh Kumar. How
strong is the association between abdominal obesity and the incidence of type
2 diabetes? (2008) The International Journal of Clinical Practice - in
press.
M W Hanif, G Valsamakis, A Dixon, A Boutsiadis, A F Jones, A H Barnett, S
Kumar. Detection of impaired glucose tolerance and undiagnosed type 2
diabetes in UK South-Asians: an effective screening strategy. Diabetes,
Obesity and Metabolism. (Aug 08) Vol. 10, issue 9, pp 755-762.
Published article online: 17-Oct-2007 doi: 10.1111/j.1463-1326.2007.00806.x
Miller MA. McTernan PG, Harte AL da Silva NF, Strazzullo P, Alberti GMM,
Kumar S, Cappuccio FP. Ethnic and sex differences in circulating endotoxin
levels: a novel marker of atherosclerotic and cardiovascular risk in a British
multi-ethnic population. (2008) Atherosclerosis - in press.
G Valsamakis, A Jones, R Chetty, PG McTernan, A Boutsiadis, AH Barnett, A
K Banerjee, S Kumar. MRI total sagittal abdominal diameter as a predictor of
metabolic syndrome compared to visceral fat at L4-L5 level. (May 2008)
Current Medical Research and Opinion. Vol 24, No7, pp 1853-1860.
Kos, K et al. Ghrelin and the differential regulation of des-acyl and oct-anoyl
ghrelin in human adipose tissue (23 Jun 2008) Clinical Endocrinology.
Ahead of print
The CounterWeight Programme Team. Influence of body mass index on
prescribing costs and potential cost-savings of a weight management
programme in primary care. (2008) The Journal of Health Services
Research & Policy. Vol 13(3), pp 158-166.
The CounterWeight Programme Team - (M McQuigg, J E. Brown, J Broom, R
A Laws, J P D Reckless, P A Noble, S Kumar, E L McCombie, M E J Lean,
F.G.Lyons, G S Frost, M F Quinn, J H Barth , S M Haynes, N Finer)
Prevalence of CVD risk factors by body mass index and the impact of 10%
weight change. Obesity Research & Clinical Practice (April 2008) 2, 15-27.
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S Bellary, J P O’Hare1, N T Raymond, A Gumber, S Mughal, A Szczepura,
S Kumar, A H Barnett on behalf of UKADS Study Group. Enhanced diabetes
care to patients of South Asian ethnic origin (the United Kingdom Asian
Diabetes Study (UKADS)): a cluster randomised controlled trial. (May 2008)
Lancet. Vol 371, No 9626, pp1769-1776.
Simon D Rees, Srikanth Bellary, Abigail C Britten, J Paul O’Hare, Sudhesh
Kumar, Antony H Barnett, M Ann Kelly. Common variants of the TCF7L2
gene are associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in a UKresident South Asian population BMC Medical Genetics (Feb 2008) 9:8.
Warwick Medical School, Coventry,UK