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Health literacy, knowledge and patient satisfaction among haemodialysis patients attending to Emergency Dialysis Unit, National Hospital, Kandy

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APACPH Conference 2020 Hemodialysis (HD) Patients’ non-adherence to therapeutic recommendations and treatment satisfaction was determined by multidimensional factors and it has been recognized as foremost determinant of quality of life of a patient. Thus main purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge and treatment satisfaction of the patients undergoing HD treatment in Emergency […]

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Pilot Study of Renal Urinary Biomarkers for Diagnosis of CKD of Uncertain Etiology

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Buddhi N.T.W. Fernando1,7, Asfa Alli-Shaik2,7, Rusiru K.D. Hemage1, Zeid Badurdeen1,Thilini W.Hettiarachchi1, Hemalika T.K. Abeysundara3, Thilak D.J. Abeysekara1,Abdul Wazil4, Saman Rathnayake5, Jayantha Gunaratne2,6 and Nishantha Nanayakkara4 1Centre for Education, Research and Training on Kidney Diseases (CERTKiD), Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka  2Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Proteos, Singapore 3Department of Statistics and

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High Prevalence of Overweight/Obesity in Urban Sri Lanka: Findings from the Colombo Urban Study

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Noel Somasundaram  1 , Ishara Ranathunga  1 , Kavinga Gunawardana  1 , Muneer Ahamed  2 , Dileepa Ediriweera  3 , C N Antonypillai  2 , Nishan Kalupahana  4 Affiliations 1 Diabetes and Endocrine Unit, National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 2 Diabetes and Endocrine Unit, Teaching Hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka. 3 Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.

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Obesity, adipocyte hypertrophy, fasting glucose, and resistin are potential contributors to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in South Asian women

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Kembra Albracht-Schulte  1 , Shanthini Rosairo  2 , Latha Ramalingam  1 , Sulochana Wijetunge  3 , Rmcj Ratnayake  4 , Hmsrb Kotakadeniya  5 , John A Dawson  1 , Nishan S Kalupahana  1   6 , Naima Moustaid-Moussa  1 Affiliations 1 Department of Nutritional Sciences and Obesity Research Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA. 2 Department of Radiology, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya,

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Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Adipose Tissue: Inflammation and Browning

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Nishan Sudheera Kalupahana  1   2 , Bimba Lakmini Goonapienuwala  2 , Naima Moustaid-Moussa  2 Affiliations 1 Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, 20400, Sri Lanka; email: [email protected]. 2 Department of Nutritional Sciences and Obesity Research Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1270, USA; email: [email protected], [email protected]. Abstract White adipose tissue (WAT) and

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Association between serum and adipose tissue resistin with dysglycemia in South Asian women

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Sulochana Wijetunge  1 , R M C J Ratnayake  2 , H M S R B Kotakadeniya  3 , Shanthini Rosairo  4 , Kembra Albracht-Schulte  5 , Latha Ramalingam  5 , Naima Moustaid-Moussa  6 , Nishan Sudheera Kalupahana  7   8 Affiliations 1 Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty

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Lifestyle factors associated with obesity in a cohort of males in the central province of Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional descriptive study

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N W I A Jayawardana  1 , W A T A Jayalath  2 , W M T Madhujith  3 , U Ralapanawa  2 , R S Jayasekera  4 , S A S B Alagiyawanna  2 , A M K R Bandara  5 , N S Kalupahana  6 Affiliations 1 Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Rajarata University of Sri

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WORK HOURS, HEAT STRESS SYMPTOMS AND PROGRESSION OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE OF UNKNOWN AETIOLOGY FROM A PROSPECTIVE COHORT IN SRI LANKA.

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Silva, T1 , Anand, S2 , Penny, V3 , Schensul, S4 , HEWAVITHARANE, P*5 , Nanayakkara, N6 , Haider, L7 , Schensul, J7 , Chandrajith, R8 , Narayana, I9 , hapuarachchi, C9 1 Department of Sociology- Faculty of Arts- University of Peradeniya- Sri Lanka Department of Sociology Kandy Sri Lanka, 2 Medical Centre- Stanford University-

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POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS FOR CKD-U PATIENTS IN SRILANKA: A REVIEW

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Fernando,W.B.N.T1., Hettiarachchi, T.W1., Hemage,R1., Badurdeen, M.Z1., Nanayakkara, N2* 1Centre for Education, Research and Training on Kidney Diseases (CERTKiD), Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka 2Transplant and Dialysis Unit, Teaching Hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka   Background: Chronic Kidney Disease due to unknown etiology (CKD-u) is a deadly disease. Its prevalence has been described in

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