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| I ShaiSummaryAffiliation: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Country: Israel Publications
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Weight loss with a low-carbohydrate, Mediterranean, or low-fat dietIris Shai
S Daniel Abraham Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
N Engl J Med 359:229-41. 2008..Trials comparing the effectiveness and safety of weight-loss diets are frequently limited by short follow-up times and high dropout rates...- Dietary intervention to reverse carotid atherosclerosisIris Shai
Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems Evaluation, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
Circulation 121:1200-8. 2010..It is currently unknown whether dietary weight loss interventions can induce regression of carotid atherosclerosis... - The effect of personal lifestyle intervention among health care providers on their patients and clinics; the Promoting Health by Self Experience (PHASE) randomized controlled intervention trialIris Shai
The S Daniel Abraham Center for Health and Nutrition and Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Prev Med 55:285-91. 2012..To determine the effect of self-experience multidisciplinary lifestyle intervention on health care providers (HCPs), patients and clinics... 
Abdominal superficial subcutaneous fat: a putative distinct protective fat subdepot in type 2 diabetesRachel Golan
The S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Diabetes Care 35:640-7. 2012....
Effect of changes in the intake of weight of specific food groups on successful body weight loss during a multi-dietary strategy intervention trialAyala Canfi
Nuclear Research Center Negev, Dimona, Israel
J Am Coll Nutr 30:491-501. 2011..Distinct weight loss dietary strategies are associated with changes in specific food groups...- Glycemic effects of moderate alcohol intake among patients with type 2 diabetes: a multicenter, randomized, clinical intervention trialIris Shai
S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems Evaluation, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P O Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
Diabetes Care 30:3011-6. 2007..In a randomized controlled trial, we assessed the effect of daily moderate alcohol intake on glycemic control in the fasting and postprandial states in patients with type 2 diabetes who previously had abstained from alcohol... - Ethnicity, obesity, and risk of type 2 diabetes in women: a 20-year follow-up studyIris Shai
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Epidemiology, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Diabetes Care 29:1585-90. 2006..To examine ethnic differences in risk of type 2 diabetes, taking dietary and lifestyle risk factors into account... - A prospective study of lipoprotein(a) and risk of coronary heart disease among women with type 2 diabetesI Shai
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Diabetologia 48:1469-76. 2005..We examined the association between lipoprotein (Lp)(a) and CHD among women with type 2 diabetes... - Soluble intercellular adhesion molecules, soluble vascular cell adhesion molecules, and risk of coronary heart diseaseIris Shai
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:2099-106. 2006.... - Joint role of non-HDL cholesterol and glycated haemoglobin in predicting future coronary heart disease events among women with type 2 diabetesM B Schulze
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Diabetologia 47:2129-36. 2004..Therapies to lower CHD risk in diabetic patients should emphasise both glycaemic control and lipid lowering... - Moderate alcohol intake and markers of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction among diabetic menI Shai
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Diabetologia 47:1760-7. 2004..It remains to be determined whether there is an association between alcohol and inflammation in individuals with diabetes... - Halo effect of a weight-loss trial on spouses: the DIRECT-Spouse studyRachel Golan
S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems Evaluation, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be er Sheva, Israel
Public Health Nutr 13:544-9. 2010..We examined the halo effect of a 2-year weight-loss diet trial, the Dietary Intervention Randomized Controlled Trial (DIRECT), on the weight and nutritional patterns of participants' spouses... - Factors associated with low reported energy intake in the elderlyD Shahar
The S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer Sheva 84105 Israel
J Nutr Health Aging 9:300-4. 2005..The gap between EI and TEE is usually attributed to underreporting. In elderly populations, compromised dietary intake and health status may offer alternative explanations to this gap... - Dietary intake and eating patterns of elderly people in Israel: who is at nutritional risk?D Shahar
The S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Eur J Clin Nutr 57:18-25. 2003..To determine dietary intake and eating patterns of older persons in Israel and to identify factors associated with low intake... - Dietary strategies for patients with type 2 diabetes in the era of multi-approaches; review and results from the Dietary Intervention Randomized Controlled Trial (DIRECT)Sivan Ben-Avraham
The S Daniel Abraham Center for Health and Nutrition, Department of Epidemilogy, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 86:S41-8. 2009..Furthermore special features of the Mediterranean diet have apparent additional favorable effects for patients with T2DM... - Relationship between adiponectin and glycemic control, blood lipids, and inflammatory markers in men with type 2 diabetesMatthias B Schulze
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Diabetes Care 27:1680-7. 2004..However, previous studies did not evaluate the complex relationships between adiponectin and the array of metabolic abnormalities commonly observed in diabetes... - A controlled intervention study of changing health-providers' attitudes toward personal lifestyle habits and health-promotion skillsDanit R Shahar
S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
Nutrition 25:532-9. 2009..Data regarding health providers' personal lifestyle and the differential effect of a short-term personal lifestyle experience intervention program on health providers are limited... - Adiponectin and future coronary heart disease events among men with type 2 diabetesMatthias B Schulze
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Diabetes 54:534-9. 2005..Our study suggests that increased adiponectin levels are associated with a moderately decreased CHD risk in diabetic men. This association seems to be mediated in part by effects of adiponectin on HDL cholesterol levels... - Differences in food intake and disparity in obesity rates between adult Jews and Bedouins in southern IsraelDrora Fraser
S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
Ethn Dis 18:13-8. 2008..The goal of this study was to compare eating patterns of Jews and Muslim Bedouins and investigate possible dietary causes for discrepancy in obesity rates... - Changes in triglyceride levels over time and risk of type 2 diabetes in young menAmir Tirosh
1Department of Internal Medicine A C, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Diabetes Care 31:2032-7. 2008..The association between changes in triglyceride concentrations over time and diabetes is unknown. We assessed whether two triglyceride determinations obtained 5 years apart can predict incident type 2 diabetes... - Bread type intake is associated with lifestyle and diet quality transition among Bedouin Arab adultsKathleen Abu-Saad
S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Department of Epidemiology and Health Services Evaluation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Br J Nutr 102:1513-22. 2009..White bread intake was associated with a less traditional lifestyle and poorer diet quality, and may constitute a useful marker for at-risk subgroups to target for nutritional interventions... - Dairy calcium intake, serum vitamin D, and successful weight lossDanit R Shahar
S Daniel Abraham Center for Health and Nutrition and the Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Am J Clin Nutr 92:1017-22. 2010..The role of dairy calcium intake and serum vitamin D concentrations in weight loss is controversial... - Adherence and success in long-term weight loss diets: the dietary intervention randomized controlled trial (DIRECT)Ilana Greenberg
S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems Evaluation, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P O Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
J Am Coll Nutr 28:159-68. 2009..Data are limited as to whether participants in diet trials truly adhere to their assigned diet and the factors that affect their adherence... - Adaptation of international nutrition databases and data-entry system tools to a specific populationIris Shai
S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, PO Box 653, 84105, Israel
Public Health Nutr 6:401-6. 2003..To develop a nutritional dietary intake database based on available reliable international nutritional databases adapted to the local needs of a specific population... - Development of a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) for an elderly population based on a population surveyDanit Shahar
The S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
J Nutr 133:3625-9. 2003..Further studies are required to compare the validity of existing tools adapted for the elderly to those developed on the basis of population surveys... - Normal fasting plasma glucose levels and type 2 diabetes in young menAmir Tirosh
Medical Corps Headquarters, Tel Hashomer, Israel
N Engl J Med 353:1454-62. 2005..55 mmol per liter). Whether higher fasting plasma glucose levels within this range independently predict type 2 diabetes in young adults is unclear... - Selection of food items for inclusion in a newly developed food-frequency questionnaireIris Shai
Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Public Health Nutr 7:745-9. 2004..Producing lists of "discriminating items" can be a useful application in developing mini-FFQs for selected nutrients... - Multivariate assessment of lipid parameters as predictors of coronary heart disease among postmenopausal women: potential implications for clinical guidelinesIris Shai
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Circulation 110:2824-30. 2004..Over the past decade, lipid measurements have been significantly improved and standardized. We evaluated the usefulness of multiple plasma lipid parameters in predicting coronary heart diseases (CHD) among women... - Dietary treatment of hypercholesterolemia: can we predict long-term success?Yaakov Henkin
Department of Cardiology, PO Box 151, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel
J Am Coll Nutr 22:555-61. 2003..To look for associations between changes in LDL cholesterol and baseline characteristics of patients receiving dietary therapy for hypercholesterolemia... - Diet and eating habits in high and low socioeconomic groupsDanit Shahar
The S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Nutrition 21:559-66. 2005..We measured the difference of dietary intake and eating habits across socioeconomic statuses (SESs) in Israel... - A prospective study of soluble tumor necrosis factor-alpha receptor II (sTNF-RII) and risk of coronary heart disease among women with type 2 diabetesIris Shai
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Diabetes Care 28:1376-82. 2005..Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), a cytokine secreted by adipose tissue and other cells, might play a role in insulin resistance... - Development of a semi-quantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) to assess dietary intake of multiethnic populationsDanit Shahar
The S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Eur J Epidemiol 18:855-61. 2003..The newly developed FFQ for the Negev population includes 126 items that are sufficient to rank the nutritional exposure of people over 35 years old from the three origin groups in Israel... - Dietary evaluation and attenuation of relative risk: multiple comparisons between blood and urinary biomarkers, food frequency, and 24-hour recall questionnaires: the DEARR studyIris Shai
Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Nutr 135:573-9. 2005..The DEARR study showed that the newly developed FFQ is a valid and reproducible instrument for assessing dietary intake. The VCs obtained can be used for future adjustment of diet-disease RR estimates in this population... - Macrophage infiltration into omental versus subcutaneous fat across different populations: effect of regional adiposity and the comorbidities of obesityIlana Harman Boehm
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 92:2240-7. 2007..Macrophage infiltration into adipose tissue has been demonstrated to accompany obesity, with a potential preferential infiltration into intraabdominal vs. sc fat... - Lipoprotein (a) and coronary heart disease among women: beyond a cholesterol carrier?Iris Shai
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Eur Heart J 26:1633-9. 2005..We assessed the role of Lp(a) in coronary heart diseases (CHD) by a recently developed assay that is not affected by the plasminogen-like Kringle-type-2 repeats... - Progression of normotensive adolescents to hypertensive adults: a study of 26,980 teenagersAmir Tirosh
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Hypertension 56:203-9. 2010..This progression and the apparent interaction between BP at age 17 years and BMI at adolescence and at adulthood are sex dependent... - Negev nutritional studies: nutritional deficiencies in young and elderly populationsD Fraser
S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P O B 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
Public Health Rev 28:31-46. 2000.... - Lack of association between breast artery calcification seen on mammography and coronary artery disease on angiographyY Henkin
Department of Cardiology, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel
J Med Screen 10:139-42. 2003..The aim of this study was to investigate whether such calcifications could predict the presence of coronary atherosclerosis... - Is plasma oxidized low-density lipoprotein, measured with the widely used antibody 4E6, an independent predictor of coronary heart disease among U.S. men and women?Tianying Wu
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 48:973-9. 2006.... - Homocysteine as a risk factor for coronary heart diseases and its association with inflammatory biomarkers, lipids and dietary factorsIris Shai
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Atherosclerosis 177:375-81. 2004..tHcy is an independent risk predictor of CHD and modestly associated with TNF-receptors. However, the inflammatory biomarkers measured could not explain its role in CHD... - Mediterranean diet and cardiovascular diseases in an Israeli populationNatalya Bilenko
The S. Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Prev Med 40:299-305. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: The current rate of MD in Israel is fairly low. Given the MD's proven preventive effect and local availability of foods, a reasonably priced MD diet can be devised and recommended widely in our population... - Differential immune responses to primary measles-mumps-rubella vaccination in Israeli childrenBracha Rager-Zisman
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 11:913-8. 2004..It is not known whether genetic differences or environmental exposure accounts for these differences... - Changes in triglyceride levels and risk for coronary heart disease in young menAmir Tirosh
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Ann Intern Med 147:377-85. 2007..Current triglyceride levels might be only a weak predictor of risk for coronary heart disease (CHD)... - Determinants of long-term satisfaction after vertical banded gastroplastyIris Shai
S. Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Obes Surg 13:269-74. 2003..Successful weight loss and improvement in respiratory difficulties were the major determinants of patient satisfaction... - The effect of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) immunization on the immune responses of previously immunized primary school childrenBracha Rager-Zisman
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Vaccine 21:2580-8. 2003..Therefore, reimmunization was accompanied by decreased leukocyte counts, but leukocyte function was unchanged or improved... - Long-term dietary changes after vertical banded gastroplasty: is the trade-off favorable?Iris Shai
S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Obes Surg 12:805-11. 2002..Insufficient data exist about the long-term health consequences of gastric restriction procedures used for treatment of obesity. The long-term nutritional changes that occur after vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG) were evaluated...