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D I W Phillips

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Wilkinson R, Afework T, Mortimore A, Phillips D, Willcox M, Levene D, et al.
J Public Health (Oxf) . 2020 Dec; 43(4):e645-e655. PMID: 33300580
Background: Ill health associated with household air pollution (HAP) is increasingly recognized as a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. To date, attempts to reduce HAP have focussed on smoke...
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Mamo Y, Dukessa T, Mortimore A, Dee D, Luintel A, Fordham I, et al.
Public Health Action . 2019 Dec; 9(3):102-106. PMID: 31803581
Background: Providing medical care for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in rural sub-Saharan Africa has proved to be difficult because of poor treatment adherence and frequent loss to follow-up (LTFU). The reasons...
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Phillips D
J Dev Orig Health Dis . 2015 May; 6(5):425-7. PMID: 25963888
In 1969, David Barker, his wife and four children moved to Uganda to work at Makerere Medical School in the capital Kampala. During the 1960s, Makerere had become a research...
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Phillips D, Osmond C
Glob Cardiol Sci Pract . 2015 Mar; 2014(4):464-72. PMID: 25780799
Background: The reason why some individuals but not others are susceptible to rheumatic fever and chronic rheumatic heart disease is not understood. Because of the substantial evidence that poverty is...
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Okubo H, Syddall H, Phillips D, Sayer A, Dennison E, Cooper C, et al.
Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis . 2013 Dec; 24(3):301-8. PMID: 24370447
Background And Aims: Dietary antioxidants may play a protective role in the aetiology of type 2 diabetes. However, observational studies that examine the relationship between the antioxidant capacity of the...
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Krishnaveni G, Veena S, Dhube A, Karat S, Phillips D, Fall C
Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) . 2013 Jan; 80(1):73-9. PMID: 23297873
Objective: Prenatal programming of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis may link reduced foetal growth with higher adult chronic disease risk. South Asians have a high prevalence of low birth weight and...
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Levitan R, Davis C, Kaplan A, Arenovich T, Phillips D, Ravindran A
J Clin Psychiatry . 2012 Jun; 73(8):1119-24. PMID: 22687640
Objective: While a significant body of research has demonstrated high comorbidity rates between depression and obesity, the vast majority of this work has considered depression as a unitary diagnosis. Given...
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Reynolds R, Osmond C, Phillips D, Godfrey K
J Clin Endocrinol Metab . 2010 Aug; 95(12):5365-9. PMID: 20702520
Context: The prevalence of obesity among women of childbearing age is increasing. Emerging evidence suggests that this has long-term adverse influences on offspring health. Objective: The aim was to examine...
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Fekadu S, Yigzaw M, Alemu S, Dessie A, Fieldhouse H, Girma T, et al.
Eur J Clin Nutr . 2010 Jul; 64(10):1192-8. PMID: 20664624
Background/objectives: Most insulin-requiring diabetes patients in Ethiopia have an atypical form of the disease, which resembles previous descriptions of malnutrition-related diabetes. As so little is known about its aetiology, we...
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Feldt K, Raikkonen K, Pyhala R, Jones A, Phillips D, Eriksson J, et al.
J Hum Hypertens . 2010 Jun; 25(4):231-40. PMID: 20535142
Cardiovascular (CV) response to mental stress, a predictor of CV disease risk, may be determined already in utero. However, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear, and previous studies have used adult...