F. Assah

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F. Assah, Felix Kembe Assah, Felix K. Assah, F Assah, Felix Assah, Felix K Assah
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83 papers · 20,148 citations · H-index 29

PAPERS

The associations of plasma carotenoids and α-tocopherol concentrations with fasting glucose in Cameroon.
20260 citationsauthor #7
Strengthening community engagement in the fight against hepatitis B in two regions of Cameroon
20251 citationsauthor #14
The impact of short message service reminders or peer home visits on adherence to antiretroviral therapy and viral load suppression among HIV-Infected adolescents in Cameroon: a randomized controlled trial
20250 citationsauthor #3
Prevalence of Major Risk Factors and Assessment of 10-Year Risk for Cardiovascular Diseases Among Adults in Yaoundé, Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Study
20240 citationsauthor #7
Individual and socio-environmental factors associated with active transport to school among adolescents in yaoundé
20241 citationsauthor #12
Clustering of diet and physical activity behaviours in adolescents across home and school area-level deprivation in Cameroon, South Africa, and Jamaica
20243 citationsauthor #12
Urban public space initiatives and health in Africa: A mixed-methods systematic review
20242 citationsauthor #31
Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development
202342 citationsauthor #111
Assessment of the Temporal and Seasonal Variabilities in Air Pollution and Implications for Physical Activity in Lagos and Yaoundé
20232 citationsauthor #3
Comparing travel behaviour characteristics and correlates between large and small Kenyan cities (Nairobi versus Kisumu)
202313 citationsauthor #7
The association between plasma zinc concentrations and markers of glucose metabolism in adults in Cameroon
20234 citationsauthor #5
Shared correlates of maternal and childhood overweight in Cameroon: a cross-sectional analysis of demographic and health survey data
20234 citationsauthor #4
Active travel and paratransit use in African cities: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography
202313 citationsauthor #14
The Potential for Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Transport Systems in Africa and the Caribbean: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review and Meta-Study
20236 citationsauthor #21
Urban Public Space Initiatives and Health in Africa: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review
20230 citationsauthor #4
The other pandemic: social media engagement around non-communicable disease preventive behaviours during Nigeria’s COVID-19 lockdowns
20224 citationsauthor #12
Association between circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D and cardiometabolic risk factors in adults in rural and urban settings
202211 citationsauthor #8
A Mixed-Methods Participatory Intervention Design Process to Develop Intervention Options in Immediate Food and Built Environments to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living among Children and Adolescents in Cameroon and South Africa
20225 citationsauthor #13
Travel Behaviour and Barriers to Active Travel among Adults in Yaoundé, Cameroon
202211 citationsauthor #10
Status and Trends of Physical Activity Surveillance, Policy, and Research in 164 Countries: Findings From the Global Observatory for Physical Activity-GoPA! 2015 and 2020 Surveys.
202243 citationsauthor #70
A Systematic Review Protocol of Opportunities for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention via Public Space Initiatives in African Cities
20227 citationsauthor #5
Associations of Serum Folate and Holotranscobalamin with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Rural and Urban Cameroon
20215 citationsauthor #5
Analysis of Cameroon’s Sectoral Policies on Physical Activity for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention
202113 citationsauthor #11
Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight.
202170 citationsauthor #84
Adolescent Levers for a Diet and Physical Activity Intervention Across Socioecological Levels in Kenya, South Africa, Cameroon, and Jamaica: Mixed Methods Study Protocol
20219 citationsauthor #13
Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography
202142 citationsauthor #15
Adolescent Levers for a Diet and Physical Activity Intervention Across Socioecological Levels in Kenya, South Africa, Cameroon, and Jamaica: Mixed Methods Study Protocol (Preprint)
20200 citationsauthor #13
Implications of COVID-19 control measures for diet and physical activity, and lessons for addressing other pandemics facing rapidly urbanising countries
202030 citationsauthor #8
The global diet and activity research (GDAR) network: a global public health partnership to address upstream NCD risk factors in urban low and middle-income contexts
202029 citationsauthor #2
Quantifying population levels of physical activity in Africa using wearable sensors: implications for global physical activity surveillance
20205 citationsauthor #2
The urban environment and leisure physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a view from Lagos
202015 citationsauthor #3
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants.
2020338 citationsauthor #85
A Qualitative Assessment of the Determinants of Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among Adolescents living with HIV in the Centre Region of Cameroon
20193 citationsauthor #3
Assessing the global risk of cardiovascular disease among a group of university students: population-based cross-sectional study in Yaoundé, Cameroon
20195 citationsauthor #2
Predictors of Non-Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among Adolescents Living with HIV in the Centre Region of Cameroon
20196 citationsauthor #2
Prevalence of major cardiovascular disease risk factors among a group of sub-Saharan African young adults: a population-based cross-sectional study in Yaoundé, Cameroon
201916 citationsauthor #3
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
2019594 citationsauthor #82
Blood pressure and burden of hypertension in Cameroon, a microcosm of Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies
201939 citationsauthor #24
Weight status and uncontrolled urbanization in Cameroon
20180 citationsauthor #2
Influence of the WHO framework convention on tobacco control on tobacco legislation and policies in sub-Saharan Africa
201823 citationsauthor #6
Active and passive tobacco smoking among students of the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon
20181 citationsauthor #2
Two decades of tobacco use prevention and control policies in Cameroon: results from the analysis of non-communicable disease prevention policies in Africa
201825 citationsauthor #3
Risk factors of type 2 diabetes among Mbororo population of Guiwa-Yangamo village in the East-Cameroon
20181 citationsauthor #3
Chronic kidney disease in sugarcane workers in Cameroon: a cross-sectional study
201826 citationsauthor #3
Construct Validity of the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale for Africa
201737 citationsauthor #6
Analysis of non-communicable diseases prevention policies in Cameroon : Final report
20171 citationsauthor #3
CKD in sugarcane workers in Cameroon, sub-Saharan Africa
20170 citationsauthor #3
Trends in obesity and diabetes across Africa from 1980 to 2014: an analysis of pooled population-based studies
2017230 citationsauthor #16
Insulin resistance and associated factors among HIV-infected patients in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross sectional study from Cameroon
201728 citationsauthor #5
Assessment of the agreement between the Framingham and DAD risk equations for estimating cardiovascular risk in adult Africans living with HIV infection: a cross-sectional study
201715 citationsauthor #3
Diagnosis, Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, Prevention, and Control of Hypertension in Cameroon: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinic-Based and Community-Based Studies
201710 citationsauthor #10
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
20175,464 citationsauthor #43
Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale--Africa
20160 citationsauthor #4
A century of trends in adult human height
20161,158 citationsauthor #46
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015
20161,924 citationsauthor #72
Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4·4 million participants
20163,219 citationsauthor #49
NEWS for Africa: adaptation and reliability of a built environment questionnaire for physical activity in seven African countries
201668 citationsauthor #4
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
20164,500 citationsauthor #50
Patterns and correlates of objectively measured free-living physical activity in adults in rural and urban Cameroon
201538 citationsauthor #1
and accelerometry to measure physical activity Hierarchy of individual calibration levels for heart rate
20150 citationsauthor #8
activitymetabolic function and free-living physical
20150 citationsauthor #4
Effects of diabetes definition on global surveillance of diabetes prevalence and diagnosis: a pooled analysis of 96 population-based studies with 331â€ˆ288 participants
201558 citationsauthor #40
Community‐based peer support significantly improves metabolic control in people with Type 2 diabetes in Yaoundé, Cameroon
201554 citationsauthor #1
Risk factors of impaired fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes in Yaoundé, Cameroon: a cross sectional study
201527 citationsauthor #4
OP7 Assessment of leisure time exercise levels and body composition among female university students in Yaoundé, Cameroon
20141 citationsauthor #2
Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Sub-Sahara Africa
201460 citationsauthor #2
OP16 Motivations and barriers of physical activity (PA) in urban Cameroon: Results of a qualitative study
20141 citationsauthor #2
P8 Urban-rural differences in perceived barriers to leisure/environmental physical activity and its association with body mass index
20144 citationsauthor #2
Autocalibration of accelerometer data for free-living physical activity assessment using local gravity and temperature: an evaluation on four continents
2014571 citationsauthor #4
09 – BMI-for-age and developmental status of a community sample of 6–8-year-old children in rural Ireland
20120 citationsauthor #9
Accuracy and validity of a combined heart rate and motion sensor for the measurement of free-living physical activity energy expenditure in adults in Cameroon.
2011141 citationsauthor #1
Urbanization, Physical Activity, and Metabolic Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
2011206 citationsauthor #1
Energy expenditure in adults living in developing compared with industrialized countries: a meta-analysis of doubly labeled water studies.
2011137 citationsauthor #7
Diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa.
2010425 citationsauthor #4
Traditional healers and diabetes: results from a pilot project to train traditional healers to provide health education and appropriate health care practices for diabetes patients in Cameroon
201044 citationsauthor #4
Diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa - Overview of a Looming Health Challenge
200927 citationsauthor #1
Predicting Physical Activity Energy Expenditure Using Accelerometry in Adults From Sub‐Sahara Africa
200954 citationsauthor #1
Free-Living Physical Activity Energy Expenditure Is Strongly Related to Glucose Intolerance in Cameroonian Adults Independently of Obesity
200925 citationsauthor #1
Ten‐year Changes in Central Obesity and BMI in Rural and Urban Cameroon
200879 citationsauthor #2
Ten year changes in central obesity and body mass index in rural and urban Cameroon
20080 citationsauthor #2
Monitoring antiretroviral therapy in HIV/AIDS patients in resource-limited settings: CD4 counts or total lymphocyte counts?
200728 citationsauthor #2
Cardiovascular risk profile of newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic patients in Cameroon
20060 citationsauthor #5
Diabetes care in Africa.
200672 citationsauthor #3

TIMELINE

2006 72 citations

2007 28 citations

2008 79 citations

2009 106 citations

2010 469 citations

2011 484 citations

2012 0 citations

2014 637 citations

2015 177 citations

2016 10,869 citations

2017 5,785 citations

2018 76 citations

2019 663 citations

2020 417 citations

2021 139 citations

2022 81 citations

2023 84 citations

2024 6 citations

2025 1 citations

2026 0 citations

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