MMC/MCM Research office List of Publications

List of Publications (2021)

  1. Kim, S., Nigatu, Y., Araya, T. et al. Health related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients with End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) on hemodialysis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study. BMC Nephrol 22, 280 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-021-02494-9
  2. Dereje, N., Ashenafi, A., Abera, A. et al. Knowledge and acceptance of HPV vaccination and its associated factors among parents of daughters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study. Infect Agents Cancer 16, 58 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13027-021-00399-8
  3. Berr, N., Nigatu, Y. & Dereje, N. Nutritional status among orphans and vulnerable children aged 6 to 59 months in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study. BMC Nutr7, 24 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40795-021-00431-5
  4. Sujin Kim, Yemisrach Nigatu, Tekebash Araya ND. Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) of Patients With End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) on Hemodialysis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study. 2021 Mar 3;
  5. Wolderufael M, Dereje N. Self-Care Practice and Associated Factors Among People Living with Type 2 Diabetes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Facility-Based Cross-Sectional Study. Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes. 2021;14:1-9 https://doi.org/10.2147/DMSO.S287352
  6. Dereje N, Tesfaye A, Tamene B, Alemeshet D, Abe H, Tesfa N, et al. COVID-19 Vaccine hesitancy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A mixed-methods study. medRxiv. 2021 Mar
  7. Kempen JH, Pistilli M, Begum H, Fitzgerald TD, Liesegang TL, Payal A, Zebardast N, Bhatt NP, Foster CS, Jabs DA, Levy-Clarke GA, Nussenblatt RB, Rosenbaum JT, Sen HN, Suhler EB, Thorne JE; Systemic Immunosuppressive Therapy for Eye Diseases (SITE) Cohort Study Research Group. Remission of Non-Infectious Anterior Scleritis: Incidence and Predictive Factors. Am J Ophthalmol. 2021 Mar; 223:377-395. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2019.03.024. Epub 2019 Apr 3. PMID: 30951689.

List of Publications (2020)

  1. Sobrin L, Pistilli M, Dreger K, Kothari S, Khachatryan N, Artornsombudh P, Pujari SS, Foster CS, Jabs DA, Nussenblatt RB, Rosenbaum JT, Levy-Clarke GA, Sen HN, Suhler EB, Thorne JE, Bhatt NP, Kempen JH; Systemic Immunosuppressive Therapy for Eye Diseases Cohort Study Research Group. Factors Predictive of Remission of Chronic Anterior Uveitis. Ophthalmology. 2020 Jun;127(6):826-834. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2019.11.020. Epub 2019 Nov 28. PMID: 31932091; PMCID: PMC7246152.
  2. Dereje N, Engida B, Holland RP (2020) Factors associated with intrauterine contraceptive device use among women of reproductive age group in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A case control study. PLoS ONE 15(2): e0229071. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229071
  3. Kempen JH, Abashawl A, Suga HK, Nigussie Difabachew M, Kempen CJ, Tesfaye Debele M, Menkir AA, Assefa MT, Asfaw EH, Habtegabriel LB, Sitotaw Addisie Y, Nilles EJ, Longenecker JC. SARS-CoV-2 Serosurvey in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Nov;103(5):2022-2023. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0816. PMID: 32975182; PMCID: PMC7646781.

List of Publications (2019)

  1. Dereje N, Moges K, Nigatu Y, Holland R. Prevalence And Predictors Of Opportunistic Infections Among HIV Positive Adults On Antiretroviral Therapy (On-ART) Versus Pre-ART In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study. HIV AIDS (Auckl). 2019;11:229-237 https://doi.org/10.2147/HIV.S218213
  2. Dereje N, Bekele G, Nigatu Y, Worku Y, Holland RP. Glycemic index and load of selected ethiopian foods: An experimental study. J Diabetes Res. 2019;2019.
  3. Gangaputra SS, Newcomb CW, Joffe MM, Dreger K, Begum H, Artornsombudh P, Pujari SS, Daniel E, Sen HN, Suhler EB, Thorne JE, Bhatt NP, Foster CS, Jabs DA, Nussenblatt RB, Rosenbaum JT, Levy-Clarke GA, Kempen JH; SITE Cohort Research Group. Comparison Between Methotrexate and Mycophenolate Mofetil Monotherapy for the Control of Noninfectious Ocular Inflammatory Diseases. Am J Ophthalmol. 2019 Dec;208:68-75. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2019.07.008. Epub 2019 Jul 22. PMID: 31344346; PMCID: PMC6889035.
  4. Dereje N, Earsido A, Temam L, et alUncovering the high burden of hypertension and its predictors among adult population in Hosanna town, southern Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional studyBMJ Open 2020;10:e035823. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035823
  5. Testi I, Agrawal R, Mahajan S, Agarwal A, Gunasekeran DV, Raje D, et al. Tubercular Uveitis: Nuggets from Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study (COTS)-1. Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2019;
  6. Kahloun R, Khairallah M, Resnikoff S, Cicinelli MV, Flaxman SR, Das A, Jonas JB, Keeffe JE, Kempen JH, Leasher J, Limburg H, Naidoo K, Pesudovs K, Silvester AJ, Tahhan N, Taylor HR, Wong TY, Bourne RRA; Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study. Prevalence and causes of vision loss in North Africa and Middle East in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections. Br J Ophthalmol. 2019 Jul;103(7):863-870. doi: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2018-312068. Epub 2018 Sep 12. PMID: 30209082.
  7. Pistilli M, Joffe MM, Gangaputra SS, Pujari SS, Jabs DA, Levy-Clarke GA, Nussenblatt RB, Rosenbaum JT, Sen HN, Suhler EB, Thorne JE, Bhatt NP, Foster CS, Begum H, Fitzgerald TD, Dreger KA, Altaweel MM, Holbrook JT, Kempen JH; Systemic Immunosuppressive Therapy for Eye Diseases (SITE) Research Group. Visual Acuity Outcome over Time in Non-Infectious Uveitis. Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2019 Dec 10:1-8. doi: 10.1080/09273948.2019.1687733. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 31821051; PMCID: PMC7282970.
  8. Ung L, Acharya NR, Agarwal T, Alfonso EC, Bagga B, Bispo PJ, Burton MJ, Dart JK, Doan T, Fleiszig SM, Garg P, Gilmore MS, Gritz DC, Hazlett LD, Iovieno A, Jhanji V, Kempen JH, Lee CS, Lietman TM, Margolis TP, McLeod SD, Mehta JS, Miller D, Pearlman E, Prajna L, Prajna NV, Seitzman GD, Shanbhag SS, Sharma N, Sharma S, Srinivasan M, Stapleton F, Tan DT, Tandon R, Taylor HR, Tu EY, Tuli SS, Vajpayee RB, Van Gelder RN, Watson SL, Zegans ME, Chodosh J. Infectious corneal ulceration: a proposal for neglected tropical disease status. Bull World Health Organ. 2019 Dec 1;97(12):854-856. doi: 10.2471/BLT.19.232660. Epub 2019 Nov 1. PMID: 31819296; PMCID: PMC6883276.
  9. Keeffe JE, Casson RJ, Pesudovs K, Taylor HR, Cicinelli MV, Das A, Flaxman SR, Jonas JB, Kempen JH, Leasher J, Limburg H, Naidoo K, Silvester AJ, Stevens GA, Tahhan N, Wong TY, Resnikoff S, Bourne RRA; Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study. Prevalence and causes of vision loss in South-east Asia and Oceania in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections. Br J Ophthalmol. 2019 Jul;103(7):878-884. doi: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2018-311946. Epub 2018 Sep 12. PMID: 30209084.
  10. Tolesa K, Abateneh A, Kempen JH, Gelaw Y. Patterns of Uveitis among Patients Attending Jimma University Department of Ophthalmology, Jimma, Ethiopia. https://doi.org/101080/0927394820191644348. 2019 Oct 2;28(7):1109–15.
  11. Thorne JE, Sugar EA, Holbrook JT, Burke AE, Altaweel MM, Vitale AT, et al. Periocular Triamcinolone vs. Intravitreal Triamcinolone vs. Intravitreal Dexamethasone Implant for the Treatment of Uveitic Macular Edema: The PeriOcular vs. INTravitreal corticosteroids for uveitic macular edema (POINT) Trial. Ophthalmology. 2019 Feb 1;126(2):283–95.
  12. Nangia V, Jonas JB, George R, Lingam V, Ellwein L, Cicinelli MV, Das A, Flaxman SR, Keeffe JE, Kempen JH, Leasher J, Limburg H, Naidoo K, Pesudovs K, Resnikoff S, Silvester AJ, Tahhan N, Taylor HR, Wong TY, Bourne RRA; Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study. Prevalence and causes of blindness and vision impairment: magnitude, temporal trends and projections in South and Central Asia. Br J Ophthalmol. 2019 Jul;103(7):871-877. doi: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2018-312292. Epub 2018 Nov 8. PMID: 30409914.

List of Publications (2018)

  1. Bourne RRA, Jonas JB, Bron AM on behalf of the Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study, et alPrevalence and causes of vision loss in high-income countries and in Eastern and Central Europe in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections British Journal of Ophthalmology 2018;102:575-585.
  2. Kempen JH, Tekle-Haimanot R, Hunduma L, Alemayehu M, Pistilli M, Abashawl A, Lawrence SD, Alemayehu W. Fluorometholone 0.1% as Ancillary Therapy for Trachomatous Trichiasis Surgery: Randomized Clinical Trial. Am J Ophthalmol. 2019 Jan;197:145-155. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2018.09.017. Epub 2018 Sep 27. PMID: 30267699; PMCID: PMC7453666.
  3. Kahloun R, Khairallah M, Resnikoff S, Cicinelli MV, Flaxman SR, Das A, Jonas JB, Keeffe JE, Kempen JH, Leasher J, Limburg H, Naidoo K, Pesudovs K, Silvester AJ, Tahhan N, Taylor HR, Wong TY, Bourne RRA; Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study. Prevalence and causes of vision loss in North Africa and Middle East in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections. Br J Ophthalmol. 2019 Jul;103(7):863-870. doi: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2018-312068. Epub 2018 Sep 12. PMID: 30209082.
  4. Borkar DS, Sobrin L, Hubbard RA, Kempen JH, VanderBeek BL. Techniques for improving ophthalmic studies performed on administrative databases. Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2019 Jun;26(3):147-149. doi: 10.1080/09286586.2018.1554160. Epub 2018 Dec 6. PMID: 30521404; PMCID: PMC6529239.

List of Publications (2018)

  1. Bourne RRA, Jonas JB, Bron AM on behalf of the Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study, et alPrevalence and causes of vision loss in high-income countries and in Eastern and Central Europe in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections British Journal of Ophthalmology 2018;102:575-585.
  2. Kempen JH, Tekle-Haimanot R, Hunduma L, Alemayehu M, Pistilli M, Abashawl A, Lawrence SD, Alemayehu W. Fluorometholone 0.1% as Ancillary Therapy for Trachomatous Trichiasis Surgery: Randomized Clinical Trial. Am J Ophthalmol. 2019 Jan;197:145-155. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2018.09.017. Epub 2018 Sep 27. PMID: 30267699; PMCID: PMC7453666.
  3. Kahloun R, Khairallah M, Resnikoff S, Cicinelli MV, Flaxman SR, Das A, Jonas JB, Keeffe JE, Kempen JH, Leasher J, Limburg H, Naidoo K, Pesudovs K, Silvester AJ, Tahhan N, Taylor HR, Wong TY, Bourne RRA; Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study. Prevalence and causes of vision loss in North Africa and Middle East in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections. Br J Ophthalmol. 2019 Jul;103(7):863-870. doi: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2018-312068. Epub 2018 Sep 12. PMID: 30209082.
  4. Borkar DS, Sobrin L, Hubbard RA, Kempen JH, VanderBeek BL. Techniques for improving ophthalmic studies performed on administrative databases. Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2019 Jun;26(3):147-149. doi: 10.1080/09286586.2018.1554160. Epub 2018 Dec 6. PMID: 30521404; PMCID: PMC6529239.

List of Publications (2015)

  1. Biluts H, Admasu AK. Outcome of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt insertion at Myungsung Christian Medical Centre in Ethiopia. East Cent African J Surg. 2015;20(1):39–48.

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