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  • Association of waterpipe smoking with myocardial infarction and determinants of metabolic syndrome among catheterized patients 
    Platt, Daniel E.; Hariri, Essa; Salameh, Pascale; Helou, Mariana; Sabbah, Nada; Merhi, Mahmoud; Abchee, Antoine B.; Zalloua, Pierre A. (2019-06-03)
    Background: Waterpipe smoking is a rising global public health epidemic perceived by many users to be less harmful, though its toxicity overlaps or even exceeds that of cigarette smoking. Short-term cardiovascular changes ...
  • Impact of inflammation, gene variants, and cigarette smoking on coronary artery disease risk 
    Merhi, Mahmoud; Demirdjian, Sally; Hariri, Essa; Sabbah, Nada; Youhanna, Sonia; Ghassibe-Sabbagh, Michella; Naoum, Joseph; Haber, Marc; Kanbar, Roy; Zalloua, Pierre; Khazen, Georges (2016-03-17)
    Background The role of inflammation in coronary artery disease (CAD) pathogenesis is well recognized. Moreover, smoking inhalation increases the activity of inflammatory mediators through an increase in leukotriene synthesis ...
  • Irritable bowel syndrome: prevalence, risk factors in an adult Lebanese population 
    Deeb, Mary E.; Chatila, Rajaa; Merhi, Mahmoud; Hariri, Essa; Sabbah, Nada (2019-05-02)
    Background Very few studies report on the prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and its correlates in the Middle East. This study investigated Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) prevalence in a sample of Lebanese adult ...
  • Type II diabetes mellitus and hyperhomocysteinemia 
    Platt, Daniel E.; Hariri, Essa; Salameh, Pascale; Merhi, Mahmoud; Sabbah, Nada; Helou, Mariana; Mouzaya, Francis; Nemr, Rita; Al-Sarraj, Yasser; El-Shanti, Hatem; Abchee, Antoine B.; Zalloua, Pierre A. (2019-06-03)
    Background Elevated homocysteine (Hc) levels have a well-established and clear causal relationship to epithelial damage leading to coronary artery disease. Furthermore, it is strongly associated with other metabolic ...