Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • M.P.H., Harvard University 2000
  • Clinical Research Fellowship, Nephrology 1996 - 1999
  • M.B.B.S., Aga Khan University (Pakistan) 1990
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Book Sections

    • Ali, A, Khan, Q, and Jafar, TH. "Kidney stones and chronic kidney disease." In Urolithiasis: Basic Science and Clinical Practice, 587-593. January 1, 2012.  Full Text

  • Journal Articles

    • Lew, QLJ, Allen, JC, Nguyen, F, Tan, NC, and Jafar, TH. "Factors Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease and Their Clinical Utility in Primary Care Clinics in a Multi-Ethnic Southeast Asian Population." Nephron (December 15, 2017).  Full Text
    • Feng, L, Khan, AH, Jehan, I, Allen, J, and Jafar, TH. "Albuminuria and kidney function as prognostic marker of left ventricular mass among South Asians with hypertension." Journal of the American Society of Hypertension : JASH 11, no. 12 (December 2017): 811-822.e2.  Full Text
    • Abarca-Gómez, L, Abdeen, ZA, Hamid, ZA, Abu-Rmeileh, NM, Acosta-Cazares, B, Acuin, C, Adams, RJ, Aekplakorn, W, Afsana, K, Aguilar-Salinas, CA, Agyemang, C, Ahmadvand, A, Ahrens, W, Ajlouni, K, Akhtaeva, N, Al-Hazzaa, HM, Al-Othman, AR, Al-Raddadi, R, Al Buhairan, F, Al Dhukair, S, Ali, MM, Ali, O, Alkerwi, A, Alvarez-Pedrerol, M, Aly, E, Amarapurkar, DN, Amouyel, P, Amuzu, A, Andersen, LB, Anderssen, SA, Andrade, DS, Ängquist, LH, Anjana, RM, Aounallah-Skhiri, H, Araújo, J, and Ariansen, I et al. "Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults." The Lancet (October 2017).  Full Text
    • Lew, Q-LJ, Jafar, TH, Talaei, M, Jin, A, Chow, KY, Yuan, J-M, and Koh, W-P. "Increased body mass index is a risk factor for end-stage renal disease in the Chinese Singapore population." Kidney international 92, no. 4 (October 2017): 979-987.  Full Text
    • Tan, RY, Allen, JC, Kee, T, and Jafar, TH. "Predictors of low estimated glomerular filtration rate after living kidney donation in a Southeast Asian population from Singapore." Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.) 22, no. 10 (October 2017): 761-768.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Jehan, I, de Silva, HA, Naheed, A, Gandhi, M, Assam, P, Finkelstein, EA, Quigley, HL, Bilger, M, Khan, AH, Clemens, JD, Ebrahim, S, Turner, EL, for COBRA-BPS Study Group, , and Kasturiratne, A. "Multicomponent intervention versus usual care for management of hypertension in rural Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial." Trials 18, no. 1 (June 12, 2017): 272-.  Full Text
    • Song, C, Burgess, S, Eicher, JD, O'Donnell, CJ, and Johnson, AD. "Causal Effect of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor Type 1 on Coronary Heart Disease." Journal of the American Heart Association 6, no. 6 (June 2017): e004918-e004918.  Full Text
    • Feng, L, Jin, AZ, Allen, JC, Chow, KY, and Jafar, TH. "Timing of commencement of maintenance dialysis and mortality in young and older adults in Singapore." BMC nephrology 18, no. 1 (May 30, 2017): 176-.  Full Text
    • Misra, A, Tandon, N, Ebrahim, S, Sattar, N, Alam, D, Shrivastava, U, Narayan, KMV, and Jafar, TH. "Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease in South Asia: current status and future directions." BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 357 (April 11, 2017): j1420-. (Review)  Full Text
    • Finkelstein, EA, Ozdemir, S, Malhotra, C, Jafar, TH, Choong, HL, and Suhardjono, J. "Identifying Factors That Influence Physicians' Recommendations for Dialysis and Conservative Management in Indonesia." Kidney international reports 2, no. 2 (March 2017): 212-218.  Full Text
    • Lew, Q-LJ, Jafar, TH, Koh, HWL, Jin, A, Chow, KY, Yuan, J-M, and Koh, W-P. "Red Meat Intake and Risk of ESRD." Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 28, no. 1 (January 2017): 304-312.  Full Text
    • NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), . "Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants." Lancet (London, England) 389, no. 10064 (January 2017): 37-55.  Full Text
    • Jha, V, Arici, M, Collins, AJ, Garcia-Garcia, G, Hemmelgarn, BR, Jafar, TH, Pecoits-Filho, R, Sola, L, Swanepoel, CR, Tchokhonelidze, I, Wang, AYM, Kasiske, BL, Wheeler, DC, Spasovski, G, and Conference Participants, . "Understanding kidney care needs and implementation strategies in low- and middle-income countries: conclusions from a "Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes" (KDIGO) Controversies Conference." Kidney international 90, no. 6 (December 2016): 1164-1174.  Full Text
    • Perkovic, V, Agarwal, R, Fioretto, P, Hemmelgarn, BR, Levin, A, Thomas, MC, Wanner, C, Kasiske, BL, Wheeler, DC, Groop, P-H, and Conference Participants, . "Management of patients with diabetes and CKD: conclusions from a "Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes" (KDIGO) Controversies Conference." Kidney international 90, no. 6 (December 2016): 1175-1183.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Silva, AD, Naheed, A, Jehan, I, Liang, F, Assam, PN, Legido-Quigley, H, Finkelstein, EA, Ebrahim, S, Wickremasinghe, R, Alam, D, Khan, AH, and COBRA-BPS Study Group, . "Control of blood pressure and risk attenuation: a public health intervention in rural Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka: feasibility trial results." Journal of hypertension 34, no. 9 (September 2016): 1872-1881.  Full Text
    • Bentham, J, Di Cesare, M, Stevens, GA, Zhou, B, Bixby, H, Cowan, M, Fortunato, L, Bennett, JE, Danaei, G, Hajifathalian, K, Lu, Y, Riley, LM, Laxmaiah, A, Kontis, V, Paciorek, CJ, Ezzati, M, Abdeen, ZA, Hamid, ZA, Abu-Rmeileh, NM, Acosta-Cazares, B, Adams, R, Aekplakorn, W, Aguilar-Salinas, CA, Agyemang, C, Ahmadvand, A, Ahrens, W, Al-Hazzaa, HM, Al-Othman, AR, Raddadi, RA, Ali, MM, Alkerwi, A, Alvarez-Pedrerol, M, Aly, E, Amouyel, P, Amuzu, A, Andersen, LB, Anderssen, SA, and Anjana, RM et al. "A century of trends in adult human height." eLife 5, no. 2016JULY (July 26, 2016).  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Tan, NC, Allen, JC, Pradhan, SS, Goh, P, Tavajoh, S, Keng, FM, and Chan, J. "Management of hypertension and multiple risk factors to enhance cardiovascular health - a feasibility study in Singapore polyclinics." BMC health services research 16 (July 8, 2016): 229-.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Allen, JC, Jehan, I, Hameed, A, Saffari, SE, Ebrahim, S, Poulter, N, and Chaturvedi, N. "Health Education and General Practitioner Training in Hypertension Management: Long-Term Effects on Kidney Function." Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 11, no. 6 (June 2016): 1044-1053.  Full Text
    • Stanifer, JW, Muiru, A, Jafar, TH, and Patel, UD. "Chronic kidney disease in low- and middle-income countries." Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 31, no. 6 (June 2016): 868-874.  Full Text
    • NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), . "Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants." Lancet (London, England) 387, no. 10027 (April 5, 2016): 1513-1530.  Full Text
    • NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), . "Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants." Lancet (London, England) 387, no. 10026 (April 2016): 1377-1396. (Review)  Full Text
    • Pattaro, C, Teumer, A, Gorski, M, Chu, AY, Li, M, Mijatovic, V, Garnaas, M, Tin, A, Sorice, R, Li, Y, Taliun, D, Olden, M, Foster, M, Yang, Q, Chen, M-H, Pers, TH, Johnson, AD, Ko, Y-A, Fuchsberger, C, Tayo, B, Nalls, M, Feitosa, MF, Isaacs, A, Dehghan, A, d'Adamo, P, Adeyemo, A, Dieffenbach, AK, Zonderman, AB, Nolte, IM, van der Most, PJ, Wright, AF, Shuldiner, AR, Morrison, AC, Hofman, A, Smith, AV, Dreisbach, AW, Franke, A, Uitterlinden, AG, Metspalu, A, Tonjes, A, Lupo, A, and Robino, A et al. "Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function." Nature communications 7 (January 21, 2016): 10023-.  Full Text
    • Seow, DYB, Haaland, B, and Jafar, TH. "The Association of Prehypertension With Meals Eaten Away From Home in Young Adults in Singapore." American journal of hypertension 28, no. 10 (October 2015): 1197-1200.  Full Text
    • NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), . "Effects of diabetes definition on global surveillance of diabetes prevalence and diagnosis: a pooled analysis of 96 population-based studies with 331,288 participants." The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology 3, no. 8 (August 2015): 624-637.  Full Text
    • Matsushita, K, Coresh, J, Sang, Y, Chalmers, J, Fox, C, Guallar, E, Jafar, T, Jassal, SK, Landman, GWD, Muntner, P, Roderick, P, Sairenchi, T, Schöttker, B, Shankar, A, Shlipak, M, Tonelli, M, Townend, J, van Zuilen, A, Yamagishi, K, Yamashita, K, Gansevoort, R, Sarnak, M, Warnock, DG, Woodward, M, Ärnlöv, J, and CKD Prognosis Consortium, . "Estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria for prediction of cardiovascular outcomes: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data." The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology 3, no. 7 (July 2015): 514-525.  Full Text
    • Coresh, J, and Jafar, TH. "Disparities in worldwide treatment of kidney failure." Lancet (London, England) 385, no. 9981 (May 2015): 1926-1928.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, and Assam, PN. "Dual RAAS blockade for kidney failure: hope for the future." Lancet (London, England) 385, no. 9982 (May 2015): 2018-2020.  Full Text
    • Huan, T, Esko, T, Peters, MJ, Pilling, LC, Schramm, K, Schurmann, C, Chen, BH, Liu, C, Joehanes, R, Johnson, AD, Yao, C, Ying, S-X, Courchesne, P, Milani, L, Raghavachari, N, Wang, R, Liu, P, Reinmaa, E, Dehghan, A, Hofman, A, Uitterlinden, AG, Hernandez, DG, Bandinelli, S, Singleton, A, Melzer, D, Metspalu, A, Carstensen, M, Grallert, H, Herder, C, Meitinger, T, Peters, A, Roden, M, Waldenberger, M, Dörr, M, Felix, SB, Zeller, T, and International Consortium for Blood Pressure GWAS (ICBP), et al. "A meta-analysis of gene expression signatures of blood pressure and hypertension." PLoS genetics 11, no. 3 (March 18, 2015): e1005035-.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Jin, A, Koh, W-P, Yuan, J-M, and Chow, KY. "Physical activity and risk of end-stage kidney disease in the Singapore Chinese Health Study." Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.) 20, no. 2 (February 2015): 61-67.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Jehan, I, Liang, F, Barbier, S, Islam, M, Bux, R, Khan, AH, Nadkarni, N, Poulter, N, Chaturvedi, N, and Ebrahim, S. "Control of Blood Pressure and Risk Attenuation: Post Trial Follow-Up of Randomized Groups." PloS one 10, no. 11 (January 2015): e0140550-.  Full Text
    • Safdar, NF, Bertone-Johnson, ER, Cordeiro, L, Jafar, TH, and Cohen, NL. "Dietary patterns and their association with hypertension among Pakistani urban adults." Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition 24, no. 4 (January 2015): 710-719.  Full Text
    • Gee, ME, Campbell, N, Sarrafzadegan, N, Jafar, T, Khalsa, TK, Mangat, B, Poulter, N, Prabhakaran, D, Sonkodi, S, Whelton, PK, Woodward, M, and Zhang, X-H. "Standards for the uniform reporting of hypertension in adults using population survey data: recommendations from the World Hypertension League Expert Committee." Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) 16, no. 11 (November 2014): 773-781.  Full Text
    • Wu, MY, Tam, KW, Siddiqui, FJ, Chan, ES, and Jafar, T. "Omega-3 fatty acids for vascular access outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease." Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2014, no. 10 (October 23, 2014). (Review)  Full Text
    • Wen, CP, Matsushita, K, Coresh, J, Iseki, K, Islam, M, Katz, R, McClellan, W, Peralta, CA, Wang, H, de Zeeuw, D, Astor, BC, Gansevoort, RT, Levey, AS, Levin, A, and Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium, . "Relative risks of chronic kidney disease for mortality and end-stage renal disease across races are similar." Kidney international 86, no. 4 (October 2014): 819-827.  Full Text
    • Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases Collaboration, . "Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment." The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology 2, no. 8 (August 2014): 634-647. (Review)  Full Text
    • Jessani, S, Bux, R, and Jafar, TH. "Prevalence, determinants, and management of chronic kidney disease in Karachi, Pakistan - a community based cross-sectional study." BMC nephrology 15 (June 13, 2014): 90-.  Full Text
    • Jessani, S, and Jafar, TH. "In reply to 'validating GFR estimating samples with clinical outcomes'." American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 63, no. 5 (May 2014): 859-860. (Letter)  Full Text
    • DIAbetes Genetics Replication And Meta-analysis (DIAGRAM) Consortium, , Asian Genetic Epidemiology Network Type 2 Diabetes (AGEN-T2D) Consortium, , South Asian Type 2 Diabetes (SAT2D) Consortium, , Mexican American Type 2 Diabetes (MAT2D) Consortium, , Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Exploration by Nex-generation sequencing in muylti-Ethnic Samples (T2D-GENES) Consortium, , Mahajan, A, Go, MJ, Zhang, W, Below, JE, Gaulton, KJ, Ferreira, T, Horikoshi, M, Johnson, AD, Ng, MCY, Prokopenko, I, and Saleheen, D et al. "Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility." Nature genetics 46, no. 3 (March 2014): 234-244.  Full Text
    • Islam, M, Jafar, TH, Bux, R, Hashmi, S, Chaturvedi, N, and Hughes, AD. "Association of parental blood pressure with retinal microcirculatory abnormalities indicative of endothelial dysfunction in children." Journal of hypertension 32, no. 3 (March 2014): 598-605.  Full Text
    • Hussain, Z, Jafar, T, Zaman, MU, Parveen, R, and Saeed, F. "Correlations of skin fold thickness and validation of prediction equations using DEXA as the gold standard for estimation of body fat composition in Pakistani children." BMJ open 4, no. 4 (January 2014): e004194-.  Full Text
    • Jessani, S, Levey, AS, Bux, R, Inker, LA, Islam, M, Chaturvedi, N, Mariat, C, Schmid, CH, and Jafar, TH. "Estimation of GFR in South Asians: a study from the general population in Pakistan." American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 63, no. 1 (January 2014): 49-58.  Full Text
    • Almas, A, Islam, M, and Jafar, TH. "School-based physical activity programme in preadolescent girls (9-11 years): a feasibility trial in Karachi, Pakistan." Archives of disease in childhood 98, no. 7 (July 2013): 515-519.  Full Text
    • Gansevoort, RT, Correa-Rotter, R, Hemmelgarn, BR, Jafar, TH, Heerspink, HJL, Mann, JF, Matsushita, K, and Wen, CP. "Chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular risk: epidemiology, mechanisms, and prevention." Lancet (London, England) 382, no. 9889 (July 2013): 339-352. (Review)  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Haaland, BA, Rahman, A, Razzak, JA, Bilger, M, Naghavi, M, Mokdad, AH, and Hyder, AA. "Non-communicable diseases and injuries in Pakistan: strategic priorities." Lancet (London, England) 381, no. 9885 (June 2013): 2281-2290.  Full Text
    • Nishtar, S, Bhutta, ZA, Jafar, TH, Ghaffar, A, Akhtar, T, Bengali, K, Isa, QA, and Rahim, E. "Health reform in Pakistan: a call to action." Lancet (London, England) 381, no. 9885 (June 2013): 2291-2297.  Full Text
    • Sabanayagam, C, Teo, BW, Tai, ES, Jafar, TH, and Wong, TY. "Ethnic variation in the impact of metabolic syndrome components and chronic kidney disease." Maturitas 74, no. 4 (April 2013): 369-374.  Full Text
    • Jin, A, Koh, W-P, Chow, KY, Yuan, J-M, and Jafar, TH. "Smoking and risk of kidney failure in the Singapore Chinese health study." PloS one 8, no. 5 (January 2013): e62962-.  Full Text
    • Sabanayagam, C, Teo, BW, Tai, ES, Jafar, TH, and Wong, TY. "Ethnic differences in the association between blood pressure components and chronic kidney disease in middle aged and older Asian adults." BMC nephrology 14 (January 2013): 86-.  Full Text
    • Safdar, NF, Bertone-Johnson, E, Cordeiro, L, Jafar, TH, and Cohen, NL. "Dietary patterns of Pakistani adults and their associations with sociodemographic, anthropometric and life-style factors." Journal of nutritional science 2 (January 2013): e42-.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, and Agarwal, SK. "A decade after the KDOQI CKD guidelines: a perspective from South Asia." American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 60, no. 5 (November 2012): 731-733.  Full Text
    • Jessani, S, Levey, AS, Chaturvedi, N, and Jafar, TH. "High normal levels of albuminuria and risk of hypertension in Indo-Asian population." Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 27 Suppl 3 (October 2012): iii58-iii64.  Full Text
    • Islam, M, Jafar, TH, Wood, AR, De Silva, NMG, Caulfield, M, Chaturvedi, N, and Frayling, TM. "Multiple genetic variants explain measurable variance in type 2 diabetes-related traits in Pakistanis." Diabetologia 55, no. 8 (August 2012): 2193-2204.  Full Text
    • Matsushita, K, Mahmoodi, BK, Woodward, M, Emberson, JR, Jafar, TH, Jee, SH, Polkinghorne, KR, Shankar, A, Smith, DH, Tonelli, M, Warnock, DG, Wen, C-P, Coresh, J, Gansevoort, RT, Hemmelgarn, BR, Levey, AS, and Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium, . "Comparison of risk prediction using the CKD-EPI equation and the MDRD study equation for estimated glomerular filtration rate." JAMA 307, no. 18 (May 2012): 1941-1951.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Islam, M, Jessani, S, Bux, R, Inker, LA, Mariat, C, and Levey, AS. "Level and determinants of kidney function in a South Asian population in Pakistan." American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 58, no. 5 (November 2011): 764-772.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Islam, M, Bux, R, Poulter, N, Hatcher, J, Chaturvedi, N, Ebrahim, S, Cosgrove, P, and Hypertension Research Group, . "Cost-effectiveness of community-based strategies for blood pressure control in a low-income developing country: findings from a cluster-randomized, factorial-controlled trial." Circulation 124, no. 15 (October 2011): 1615-1625.  Full Text
    • International Consortium for Blood Pressure Genome-Wide Association Studies, , Ehret, GB, Munroe, PB, Rice, KM, Bochud, M, Johnson, AD, Chasman, DI, Smith, AV, Tobin, MD, Verwoert, GC, Hwang, S-J, Pihur, V, Vollenweider, P, O'Reilly, PF, Amin, N, Bragg-Gresham, JL, Teumer, A, Glazer, NL, Launer, L, Zhao, JH, Aulchenko, Y, Heath, S, Sõber, S, Parsa, A, Luan, J, Arora, P, Dehghan, A, Zhang, F, Lucas, G, Hicks, AA, Jackson, AU, Peden, JF, Tanaka, T, Wild, SH, Rudan, I, Igl, W, and Milaneschi, Y et al. "Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk." Nature 478, no. 7367 (September 11, 2011): 103-109.  Full Text
    • Kooner, JS, Saleheen, D, Sim, X, Sehmi, J, Zhang, W, Frossard, P, Been, LF, Chia, K-S, Dimas, AS, Hassanali, N, Jafar, T, Jowett, JBM, Li, X, Radha, V, Rees, SD, Takeuchi, F, Young, R, Aung, T, Basit, A, Chidambaram, M, Das, D, Grundberg, E, Hedman, AK, Hydrie, ZI, Islam, M, Khor, C-C, Kowlessur, S, Kristensen, MM, Liju, S, Lim, W-Y, Matthews, DR, Liu, J, Morris, AP, Nica, AC, Pinidiyapathirage, JM, Prokopenko, I, Rasheed, A, Samuel, M, Shah, N, Shera, AS, Small, KS, Suo, C, and Wickremasinghe, AR et al. "Genome-wide association study in individuals of South Asian ancestry identifies six new type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci." Nature genetics 43, no. 10 (August 28, 2011): 984-989.  Full Text
    • Almas, A, and Jafar, TH. "Adiposity and blood pressure in South Asian children and adolescents in Karachi." American journal of hypertension 24, no. 8 (August 2011): 876-880.  Full Text
    • Rees, SD, Islam, M, Hydrie, MZI, Chaudhary, B, Bellary, S, Hashmi, S, O'Hare, JP, Kumar, S, Sanghera, DK, Chaturvedi, N, Barnett, AH, Shera, AS, Weedon, MN, Basit, A, Frayling, TM, Kelly, MA, and Jafar, TH. "An FTO variant is associated with Type 2 diabetes in South Asian populations after accounting for body mass index and waist circumference." Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association 28, no. 6 (June 2011): 673-680.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH. "Commentary: cardiovascular risk factors--the next epidemic in Uganda: findings from the population-based HIV/AIDS rural surveillance cohort." International journal of epidemiology 40, no. 1 (February 2011): 171-173.  Full Text
    • Faqah, A, and Jafar, TH. "Control of blood pressure in chronic kidney disease: how low to go?." Nephron. Clinical practice 119, no. 4 (January 2011): c324-c331. (Review)  Full Text
    • Rizwan, A, Akhter, J, and Jafar, TH. "The association of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and inadequate physical activity with overweight and obesity in school-going children and adolescents in Pakistan." Archives of disease in childhood 96, no. 1 (January 2011): 109-111. (Letter)  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Islam, M, Hatcher, J, Hashmi, S, Bux, R, Khan, A, Poulter, N, Badruddin, S, Chaturvedi, N, and Hypertension Research Group, . "Community based lifestyle intervention for blood pressure reduction in children and young adults in developing country: cluster randomised controlled trial." BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 340 (June 7, 2010): c2641-.  Full Text
    • Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium, , Matsushita, K, van der Velde, M, Astor, BC, Woodward, M, Levey, AS, de Jong, PE, Coresh, J, and Gansevoort, RT. "Association of estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in general population cohorts: a collaborative meta-analysis." Lancet (London, England) 375, no. 9731 (June 2010): 2073-2081.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH. "Organ trafficking: global solutions for a global problem." American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 54, no. 6 (December 2009): 1145-1157.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Hatcher, J, Poulter, N, Islam, M, Hashmi, S, Qadri, Z, Bux, R, Khan, A, Jafary, FH, Hameed, A, Khan, A, Badruddin, SH, and Chaturvedi, N. "Community-based interventions to promote blood pressure control in a developing country: A cluster randomized trial." Annals of Internal Medicine 151, no. 9 (November 3, 2009): 593-601.  Full Text
    • Hazarika, S, Yadav, A, Reddy, KS, Prabhakaran, D, Jafar, TH, and Narayan, KMV. "Public health law in India: a framework for its application as a tool for social change." The National medical journal of India 22, no. 4 (July 2009): 199-203.
    • Jafar, TH, Qadri, Z, and Hashmi, S. "Prevalence of microalbuminuria and associated electrocardiographic abnormalities in an Indo-Asian population." Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 24, no. 7 (July 2009): 2111-2116.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH. "Children, obesity, and high blood pressure: Asian populations at high risk." American journal of hypertension 22, no. 1 (January 2009): 6-7. (Review)  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Hatcher, J, and Bhutta, ZA. "Rapidly rising rates of overweight and obesity coupled with persistently high rates of undernutrition among school aged children in an urban Indo-Asian population: authors' response." Archives of disease in childhood 93, no. 11 (November 2008): 1000-1001. (Letter)  Full Text
    • Jessani, S, Hatcher, J, Chaturvedi, N, and Jafar, TH. "Effect of low vs. high dietary sodium on blood pressure levels in a normotensive Indo-Asian population." American journal of hypertension 21, no. 11 (November 2008): 1238-1244.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, and Ebrahim, SBJ. "Variations in levels of blood pressure: of prognostic value or not?." American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 52, no. 4 (October 2008): 638-641.  Full Text
    • Jafary, FH, and Jafar, TH. "Disproportionately high risk of left ventricular hypertrophy in Indo-Asian women: a call for more studies." Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) 25, no. 8 (September 2008): 812-819.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Qadri, Z, Islam, M, Hatcher, J, Bhutta, ZA, and Chaturvedi, N. "Rise in childhood obesity with persistently high rates of undernutrition among urban school-aged Indo-Asian children." Archives of disease in childhood 93, no. 5 (May 2008): 373-378.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Qadri, Z, and Chaturvedi, N. "Coronary artery disease epidemic in Pakistan: more electrocardiographic evidence of ischaemia in women than in men." Heart (British Cardiac Society) 94, no. 4 (April 2008): 408-413.  Full Text
    • Khawaja, MR, Taj, F, Saleheen, D, Ahmad, U, Chohan, MO, Jafar, T, and Frossard, PM. "Association study of two interleukin-1 gene loci with essential hypertension in a Pakistani Pathan population." Journal of human hypertension 22, no. 1 (January 2008): 60-62. (Letter)  Full Text
    • Qureshi, NN, Hatcher, J, Chaturvedi, N, Jafar, TH, and Hypertension Research Group, . "Effect of general practitioner education on adherence to antihypertensive drugs: cluster randomised controlled trial." BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 335, no. 7628 (November 8, 2007): 1030-.  Full Text
    • Khan, MS, Jafary, FH, Faruqui, AM, Rasool, SI, Hatcher, J, Chaturvedi, N, and Jafar, TH. "High prevalence of lack of knowledge of symptoms of acute myocardial infarction in Pakistan and its contribution to delayed presentation to the hospital." BMC public health 7 (October 9, 2007): 284-.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Chaturvedi, N, Hatcher, J, and Levey, AS. "Use of albumin creatinine ratio and urine albumin concentration as a screening test for albuminuria in an Indo-Asian population." Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 22, no. 8 (August 2007): 2194-2200.  Full Text
    • Kent, DM, Jafar, TH, Hayward, RA, Tighiouart, H, Landa, M, de Jong, P, de Zeeuw, D, Remuzzi, G, Kamper, A-L, and Levey, AS. "Progression risk, urinary protein excretion, and treatment effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in nondiabetic kidney disease." Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 18, no. 6 (June 2007): 1959-1965.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH. "Modified MDRD equations outperform the original equations in Chinese patients with chronic kidney disease." Nature clinical practice. Nephrology 3, no. 4 (April 2007): 186-187.  Full Text
    • Khawaja, MR, Taj, F, Ahmad, U, Saleheen, D, Jafar, T, and Frossard, PM. "Association of endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene G894T polymorphism with essential hypertension in an adult Pakistani Pathan population." International journal of cardiology 116, no. 1 (March 2007): 113-115. (Letter)  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Chaturvedi, N, and Pappas, G. "Prevalence of overweight and obesity and their association with hypertension and diabetes mellitus in an Indo-Asian population." CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 175, no. 9 (October 2006): 1071-1077.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH. "71% of patients with newly diagnosed chronic kidney disease progressed to renal replacement therapy or death within 3 years." Evidence-based medicine 11, no. 4 (August 2006): 118-.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH. "Hypertension and kidney disease in Asia." Current opinion in nephrology and hypertension 15, no. 3 (May 2006): 291-295. (Review)  Full Text
    • Khan, MS, Jafary, FH, Jafar, TH, Faruqui, AM, Rasool, SI, Hatcher, J, and Chaturvedi, N. "Knowledge of modifiable risk factors of heart disease among patients with acute myocardial infarction in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross sectional study." BMC cardiovascular disorders 6 (April 27, 2006): 18-.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH. "The growing burden of chronic kidney disease in Pakistan." The New England journal of medicine 354, no. 10 (March 2006): 995-997.  Full Text
    • Shahpurwala, MM, Sani, N, Shah, S, Shuja, F, Shahid, K, Tariq, H, Huda, Z, Zuberi, L, and Jafar, TH. "General medical practitioners in Pakistan fail to educate patients adequately about complications of diabetes. A major cause of concern for a developing country." Practical Diabetes International 23, no. 2 (March 1, 2006): 57-61.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH. "Women in Pakistan have a greater burden of clinical cardiovascular risk factors than men." International journal of cardiology 106, no. 3 (January 2006): 348-354.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH. "Blood pressure, diabetes, and increased dietary salt associated with stroke--results from a community-based study in Pakistan." Journal of human hypertension 20, no. 1 (January 2006): 83-85.  Full Text
    • Jafri, W, Jafri, N, Yakoob, J, Islam, M, Tirmizi, SFA, Jafar, T, Akhtar, S, Hamid, S, Shah, HA, and Nizami, SQ. "Hepatitis B and C: prevalence and risk factors associated with seropositivity among children in Karachi, Pakistan." BMC infectious diseases 6 (January 2006): 101-.  Full Text
    • Ahmad, K, and Jafar, TH. "Prevalence and determinants of blood pressure screening in Pakistan." Journal of hypertension 23, no. 11 (November 2005): 1979-1984.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Chaturvedi, N, Hatcher, J, Khan, I, Rabbani, A, Khan, AQ, Portman, R, Schmid, CH, and Levey, AS. "Proteinuria in South Asian children: prevalence and determinants." Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) 20, no. 10 (October 2005): 1458-1465.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Jafary, FH, Jessani, S, and Chaturvedi, N. "Heart disease epidemic in Pakistan: women and men at equal risk." American heart journal 150, no. 2 (August 2005): 221-226.  Full Text
    • Ahmad, K, Jafary, F, Jehan, I, Hatcher, J, Khan, AQ, Chaturvedi, N, and Jafar, TH. "Prevalence and predictors of smoking in Pakistan: results of the National Health Survey of Pakistan." European journal of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation : official journal of the European Society of Cardiology, Working Groups on Epidemiology & Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology 12, no. 3 (June 2005): 203-208.  Full Text
    • Ahmad, K, Jafar, TH, and Chaturvedi, N. "Self-rated health in Pakistan: results of a national health survey." BMC public health 5 (May 19, 2005): 51-.  Full Text
    • Iqbal, N, Seshadri, P, Stern, L, Loh, J, Kundu, S, Jafar, T, and Samaha, FF. "Serum resistin is not associated with obesity or insulin resistance in humans." European review for medical and pharmacological sciences 9, no. 3 (May 2005): 161-165.
    • Jafar, TH, Schmid, CH, and Levey, AS. "Serum creatinine as marker of kidney function in South Asians: a study of reduced GFR in adults in Pakistan." Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 16, no. 5 (May 2005): 1413-1419.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Islam, M, Poulter, N, Hatcher, J, Schmid, CH, Levey, AS, and Chaturvedi, N. "Children in South Asia have higher body mass-adjusted blood pressure levels than white children in the United States: a comparative study." Circulation 111, no. 10 (March 2005): 1291-1297.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Jessani, S, Jafary, FH, Ishaq, M, Orakzai, R, Orakzai, S, Levey, AS, and Chaturvedi, N. "General practitioners' approach to hypertension in urban Pakistan: disturbing trends in practice." Circulation 111, no. 10 (March 2005): 1278-1283.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Stark, PC, Schmid, CH, Strandgaard, S, Kamper, A-L, Maschio, G, Becker, G, Perrone, RD, Levey, AS, and ACE Inhibition in Progressive Renal Disease (AIPRD) Study Group, . "The effect of angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors on progression of advanced polycystic kidney disease." Kidney international 67, no. 1 (January 2005): 265-271.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH. "Systemic hypertension and nondiabetic chronic kidney disease: the best evidence-based therapeutic approach today." European review for medical and pharmacological sciences 9, no. 1 (January 2005): 1-12. (Review)
    • Jafar, TH, Levey, AS, White, FM, Gul, A, Jessani, S, Khan, AQ, Jafary, FH, Schmid, CH, and Chaturvedi, N. "Ethnic differences and determinants of diabetes and central obesity among South Asians of Pakistan." Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association 21, no. 7 (July 2004): 716-723.  Full Text
    • Ismail, J, Jafar, TH, Jafary, FH, White, F, Faruqui, AM, and Chaturvedi, N. "Risk factors for non-fatal myocardial infarction in young South Asian adults." Heart (British Cardiac Society) 90, no. 3 (March 2004): 259-263.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Chaturvedi, N, Gul, A, Khan, AQ, Schmid, CH, and Levey, AS. "Ethnic differences and determinants of proteinuria among South Asian subgroups in Pakistan." Kidney international 64, no. 4 (October 2003): 1437-1444.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Schmid, CH, Stark, PC, Toto, R, Remuzzi, G, Ruggenenti, P, Marcantoni, C, Becker, G, Shahinfar, S, De Jong, PE, De Zeeuw, D, Kamper, A-L, Strangaard, S, and Levey, AS. "The rate of progression of renal disease may not be slower in women compared with men: a patient-level meta-analysis." Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 18, no. 10 (October 2003): 2047-2053.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Stark, PC, Schmid, CH, Landa, M, Maschio, G, de Jong, PE, de Zeeuw, D, Shahinfar, S, Toto, R, Levey, AS, and AIPRD Study Group, . "Progression of chronic kidney disease: the role of blood pressure control, proteinuria, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition: a patient-level meta-analysis." Annals of internal medicine 139, no. 4 (August 2003): 244-252.  Full Text
    • Schmid, CH, Landa, M, Jafar, TH, Giatras, I, Karim, T, Reddy, M, Stark, PC, Levey, AS, and Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibition in Progressive Renal Disease (AIPRD) Study Group, . "Constructing a database of individual clinical trials for longitudinal analysis." Controlled clinical trials 24, no. 3 (June 2003): 324-340.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Levey, AS, Jafary, FH, White, F, Gul, A, Rahbar, MH, Khan, AQ, Hattersley, A, Schmid, CH, and Chaturvedi, N. "Ethnic subgroup differences in hypertension in Pakistan." Journal of Hypertension 21, no. 5 (May 1, 2003): 905-912.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Schmid, CH, Landa, M, Giatras, I, Toto, R, and Remuzzi, G. "Erratum: Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and progression of nondiabetic renal disease (Annals of Internal Medicine (2001) 135 (73-87))." Annals of Internal Medicine 137, no. 4 (August 20, 2002): 299-.
    • Jafar, TH, Schmid, CH, and Levey, AS. "Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors on progression of nondiabetic renal disease." Annals of internal medicine 137, no. 4 (August 2002): 298-299. (Letter)  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Stark, PC, Schmid, CH, Landa, M, Maschio, G, Marcantoni, C, de Jong, PE, de Zeeuw, D, Shahinfar, S, Ruggenenti, P, Remuzzi, G, Levey, AS, and AIPRD Study Group. Angiotensin-Converting Enzymne Inhibition and Progression of Renal Disease, . "Proteinuria as a modifiable risk factor for the progression of non-diabetic renal disease." Kidney international 60, no. 3 (September 2001): 1131-1140.  Full Text
    • Jafar, TH, Schmid, CH, Landa, M, Giatras, I, Toto, R, Remuzzi, G, Maschio, G, Brenner, BM, Kamper, A, Zucchelli, P, Becker, G, Himmelmann, A, Bannister, K, Landais, P, Shahinfar, S, de Jong, PE, de Zeeuw, D, Lau, J, and Levey, AS. "Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and progression of nondiabetic renal disease. A meta-analysis of patient-level data." Annals of internal medicine 135, no. 2 (July 2001): 73-87.  Full Text
    • Marcantoni, C, Jafar, TH, Oldrizzi, L, Levey, AS, and Maschio, G. "The role of systemic hypertension in the progression of nondiabetic renal disease." Kidney international. Supplement 75 (April 2000): S44-S48. (Review)
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