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Peymane Adab
Researcher at University of Birmingham
Publications - 226
Citations - 7429
Peymane Adab is an academic researcher from University of Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & COPD. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 216 publications receiving 6163 citations. Previous affiliations of Peymane Adab include University of Hong Kong & University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
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Covid-19: risk factors for severe disease and death.
TL;DR: A long list is emerging from largely unadjusted analyses, with age near the top of the list of top 10 causes of death in the world of sport.
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Comparison of range of commercial or primary care led weight reduction programmes with minimal intervention control for weight loss in obesity: Lighten Up randomised controlled trial
Kate Jolly,Amanda H. Lewis,Amanda H. Lewis,Jane Beach,John Denley,Peymane Adab,Jonathan J Deeks,Amanda Daley,Paul Aveyard +8 more
TL;DR: Commercially provided weight management services are more effective and cheaper than primary care based services led by specially trained staff, which are ineffective.
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Passive smoking exposure and risk of COPD among adults in China: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study
Peng Yin,Chaoqiang Jiang,Kar Keung Cheng,Tai Hing Lam,K. H. Lam,Miller,Wei Sen Zhang,G. N. Thomas,Peymane Adab +8 more
TL;DR: Exposure to passive smoking is associated with an increased prevalence of COPD and respiratory symptoms, and it is estimated that 1.9 million excess deaths from COPD among never smokers could be attributable to passivesmoking in the current population in China.
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Screening and brief intervention for obesity in primary care: a parallel, two-arm, randomised trial.
Paul Aveyard,Amanda L. Lewis,Sarah Tearne,Kathryn Hood,Anna Christian-Brown,Peymane Adab,Rachna Begh,Kate Jolly,Amanda Daley,Amanda Farley,Deborah Lycett,Alecia Nickless,Ly-Mee Yu,Lise Retat,Laura Webber,Laura Pimpin,Susan A. Jebb +16 more
TL;DR: A behaviourally-informed, very brief, physician-delivered opportunistic intervention is acceptable to patients and an effective way to reduce population mean weight in patients with obesity.
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Cohort Profile: The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study, a Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Birmingham collaboration
Chaoqiang Jiang,G. Neil Thomas,Tai Hing Lam,C. Mary Schooling,Wei Sen Zhang,Xiang Qian Lao,Peymane Adab,Bin Liu,Gabriel M. Leung,Kar Keung Cheng +9 more
TL;DR: The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study (GBCS), initiated by TH Lam, CQ Jiang, and KK Cheng, has been in part modelled on the Kadoorie Study of Chronic Disease in China (KSCDC) and the UK Biobanks.