Dr. Yasmin Yussuf Al-Gindan

Research Interests

• Obesity and weight management.
• Assessment of human body composition and its relation to chronic illness.
• The role of functional foods in the treatment and prevention of disease.

Ongoing research

• The effect of probiotic consumption on glycemic and inflammatory markers and body composition of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus A double blinded randomized controlled trial.

Publications

• Thom, G. , Lean, M. E.J. , Brosnahan, N., Algindan, Y. Y., Malkova, D.  and Dombrowski, S. U. (2020) ‘I have been all in, I have been all out and I have been everything in-between’: a 2-year longitudinal qualitative study of weight-loss maintenance, Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics 
• George Thom, Stephan U. Dombrowski, Naomi Brosnahan, Yasmin Y. Algindan, M. Rosario Lopez-Gonzalez, Giles Roditi, Michael E. J. Lean & Dalia Malkova (2020) The role of appetite-related hormones, adaptive thermogenesis, perceived hunger and stress in long-term weight-loss maintenance: a mixed-methods study, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition volume 74, pages622–632(2020), www.nature.com/articles/s41430-020-0568-9. 
• Associations of BMI, waist circumference, body fat, and skeletal muscle with type 2 diabetes in adults,TS Han, YY Al-Gindan, L Govan, CR Hankey, MEJ Lean Acta Diabetologica, 1-8 (2019)
• Associations of body fat and skeletal muscle with hypertension, TS Han, YY Al‐Gindan, L Govan, CR Hankey, MEJ Lean, The Journal of Clinical Hypertension 21 (2), 230-238 (2019)
• Welayah Ali AlAmmar, Fatima Hassan Albeesh, Layla Makki Ibrahim, Yasmin Yussuf Algindan, Lamya Zohair Yamani & Rabie Yousif Khattab (2019) Effect of omega-3 fatty acids and fish oil supplementation on multiple sclerosis: a systematic review, Nutritional Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1080/1028415X.2019.1659560
• Beyond BMI: how to capture influences from body composition in health surveys, A Peeters, S Tanamas, E Gearon, Y Al-Gindan, MEJ Lean, Current nutrition reports 5 (4), 286-294 (2016)
• Estimation of whole body muscle, adipose/fat mass, validation in health and during weight loss. Development of prediction equations using MRI as reference method, YY Algindan, University of Glasgow (2016)
• Derivation and validation of simple anthropometric equations to predict adipose tissue mass and total fat mass with MRI as the reference method, YY Al-Gindan, CR Hankey, L Govan, D Gallagher, SB Heymsfield, British Journal of Nutrition 114 (11), 1852-1867 (2015)
• Derivation and validation of simple equations to predict total muscle mass from simple anthropometric and demographic data, YY Al-Gindan, C Hankey, L Govan, D Gallagher, SB Heymsfield, The American journal of clinical nutrition 100 (4), 1041-1051 (2014)
• Predicting muscle mass from anthropometry using magnetic resonance imaging as reference: a systematic review, YY Al-Gindan, CR Hankey, W Leslie, L Govan, MEJ Lean, Nutrition reviews 72 (2), 113-126 (2014)
• Predicting muscle mass of adults from anthropometry, using magnetic resonance imaging as reference: a systematic review, YY Al-Gindan, CR Hankey, WS Leslie, L Govan, MEJ Lean, Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 72 (OCE2) (2013)
• Intestinal inflammation in rats induces metallothionein in colonic submucosa, Y Al-Gindan, M Shawarby, A Noto, CG Taylor, Journal of clinical biochemistry and nutrition 44 (2), 131-141 (2009)
• Effects of zinc deficiency and supplementation on dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-induced intestinal inflammation in growing rats, YY Al-Gindan (2007).