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Research & Publications

2008

  1. Waterpipe-associated particulate matter emissions. (abstract, full text)
  2. Waterpipe tobacco smoking: Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behavior in two U.S. samples. (abstract)
  3. Exposure to secondhand smoke at home and in public places in Syria: a developing country's perspective. (abstract, full text)
  4. Childhood obesity: are we missing the big picture? (abstract)

2007

  1. Shattuck Lecture: improving American health
  2. Characteristics of U.S. waterpipe users- A preliminary report  (abstract, full text)
  3. Outcomes and Adherence in Syrias First Smoking Cessation Trial (abstract, full text)
  4. Interventions for waterpipe smoking cessation. (abstract, full text)
  5. Self-rated health and its determinants among adults in Syria: a model from the Middle East. (abstract, full text)
  6. Cardiovascular health among adults in Syria : a model from developing countries. (abstract, full text)
  7. Prevalence of obesity and its associated factors in Aleppo, Syria. (abstract, full text)

2006

  1. Health in the Middle East. (full text)
  2. On the gains of seeding tobacco research in developing countries. (full text)
  3. The tobacco epidemic in Syria. (abstract, full text)
  4. Measuring exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS): a developing country's perspective. (abstract)
  5. Lebanon : young stars turned to smoke. (abstract, full text)
  6. Injuries in Aleppo, Syria ; first population-based estimates and characterization of predominant types. (full text)
  7. Asthma and allergies in Germany (full text)

2005

  1. Mapping the health and environmental situation in informal zones in Aleppo, Syria: report from the Aleppo household survey. (abstract , full text )
  2. Global voices of science. Science in the Arab world: vision of glories beyond. (full text)
  3. Smoking among adults in Syria: proxy reporting by 13-14 year olds. (abstract, full text)
  4. Research Assistance Matching (RAM) Project. (full text)
  5. Are waterpipe users interested in quitting? (abstract, full text)
  6. Standardizing questionnaire items for the assessment of waterpipe tobacco use in epidemiological studies.(abstract, full text)
  7. Comparison of patterns of use, beliefs, and attitudes related to waterpipe between beginning and established smokers. (abstract , full text)
  8. Extent of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and its dose-response relation to respiratory health among adults.(abstract , full text)
  9. Patterns of waterpipe use and dependence: implications for intervention development. (abstract , full text)
  10. The use of synthetic bedding in children. Do strategies of change influence associations with asthma? (abstract)
  11. The asthma epidemic and our artificial habitats. (abstract, full text)
  12. Symptoms of asthma and the home environment. The ISAAC I and III cross-sectional surveys in Münster, Germany (abstract)

2004

  1. Tobacco smoking using a waterpipe: a re-emerging strain in a global epidemic. (abstract , full text)
  2. The Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies: a model of international partnership for the creation of sustainable research capacity in developing countries. (full text)
  3. Beliefs and attitudes related to narghile (waterpipe) smoking among university students in Syria.(abstract , full text).
  4. Factors related to frequency of narghile (waterpipe) use: the first insights on tobacco dependence in narghile users. (abstract , full text)
  5. Estimating the beginning of the waterpipe epidemic in Syria . (abstract , full text)
  6. Prevalence and characteristics of narghile smoking among university students in Syria. (abstract , full text)
  7. Characteristics of cigarette smoking and quitting among university students in Syria. (abstract , full text)
  8. Adapting Smoking Cessation Interventions for Developing Countries: A Model for the Middle East. (abstract , full text)
  9. Gender and smoking status-based analysis of views regarding waterpipe and cigarette smoking in Aleppo, Syria. (abstract , full text)
  10. Geography of biomedical publications. (full text)
  11. Religion-based tobacco control interventions: how should WHO proceed? (abstract, full text)
  12. Settling with danger: conditions and health problems in peri-urban neighbourhoods in Aleppo, Syria.( abstract , full text )
  13. Self-reported traffic density and atopic disease in children. Results of the ISAAC Phase III survey in Muenster, Germany. (abstract)
  14. Predictors of health care utilization of children with asthma in the community. (abstract)
  15. The relation of markers of fetal growth with asthma, allergies and serum immunoglobulin E levels in children at age 5-7 years. (abstract)

 

Before 2004

  1. Smoking among physicians in Syria : Do as I say, not as I do! (fuill text)
  2. Physical abuse in low-income women in Aleppo, Syria . (abstract, full text)
  3. Neoplastic diseases in Aleppo, Syria . (abstract, full text)
  4. Violence against women. 
  5. Socio-demographic correlates of psychiatric morbidity among low-income women in Aleppo, Syria . (abstract, full text)
  6. Smoking in Syria : profile of a developing Arab country. (abstract, full text)
  7. Smoking behavior among schoolteachers in the north of the Syrian Arab Republic . (abstract)
  8. Characterization of the smoking habit among high school students in Syria . (abstract, full text)
  9. Smoking habits of students in college of Applied Medical Sciences, Saudi Arabia.
  10. Effects of environmental tobacco smoke on the health of children in the Syrian Arab Republic . (abstract)
  11. Socio-demographic determinants of smoking among low-income women in Aleppo, Syria . (abstract, full text)
  12. Why most women in Syria do not smoke? (abstract , full text)
  13. The dynamics of cigarette smoking during military service in Syria (abstract, full text)
  14. Global health research. Science aid programme could be set up to help researchers in developing countries.  (full text)
  15. The dynamics of tobacco smoking among male educated youths in Aleppo-Syria. (abstract)
  16. Fatal physical child abuse in two children of a family. 
  17. Are asthma and allergies in children and adolescents increasing? Results from ISAAC phase I and phase III surveys in Münster, Germany. (abstract)
  18. Smoking among adolescents in Muenster, Germany: increase in prevalence (1995-2000) and relation to tobacco advertising. (abtract)
  19. Endotoxin and asthma.
  20. The management of childhood asthma in the community. (abstract, full text)
  21. The hygiene hypothesis and the evolutionary perspective of health. 
  22. Does the sibling effect have its origin in utero? Investigating birth order, cord blood immunoglobulin E concentration, and allergic sensitization at age 4 years. (full text)
  23. Asthma and the exposure-disease tenet . (abstract)
  24. Ten-year trends in smoking behaviour among adults in southern Germany. (abstract)
  25. Why is blood pressure control unsatisfactory--or is it?  (full text)
  26. Asthma and farming. 
  27. The use of anti-asthmatic drugs in children: results of a community-based survey in Germany. (abstract)
  28. Effect of high dose inhaled steroid on cells, cytokines, and proteases in induced sputum in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (abstract, full text)
  29. Neutrophilic inflammation in severe persistent asthma. (abstract, full text)
  30. Exhaled nitric oxide in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (abstract, full text)
  31. The Th1-Th2 paradigm and asthma: how far should we go?
  32. Determinants of poor hypertension management in the community.
  33. Sputum differential cell counts.

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