O Peter Adams

Dados Biográficos

ID7709418
NOMEO Peter Adams
PRENOMESO Peter
SOBRENOMEAdams
ASSINATURAADAMS O P
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of the West Indies
ORCID0000-0002-6707-6769
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2010
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Diabetes prevention in the Caribbean using lifestyle intervention and Metformin escalation (Lime)

    Open AccessSaria Hassan, Natasha Sobers et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    clinicaltrials.gov NCT03258723 (23/08/2017)

  • Measuring Caribbean stress and resilient coping

    Open AccessMichael Campbell, Jill Gromer et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2024

    Caribbean health research has overwhelmingly employed measures developed elsewhere and rarely includes evaluation of psychometric properties. Established measures are important for research and practice. Particularly, measures of stress and coping are needed. Stressors experienced by Caribbean people are multifactorial, as emerging climate threats interact with existing complex and vulnerable socioeconomic environments. In the early COVID-19 pand…

  • Risk factors for household food insecurity in the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network cohort study

    Open AccessJ L Martinez-Brockman, Amber Hromi-Fiedler et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: Globally, 1.3 billion people were considered food insecure as of 2022. In the Caribbean region, the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity was 71.3% as of 2020, the highest of all subregions in Latin America. Experienced based measurement scales, like the Latin American and Caribbean Food Security Scale, are efficient measurement tools of food insecurity used globally. The Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (…

  • The Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (Echorn) Cohort Study

    Open AccessTerri‐Ann Thompson, Mahesh M Desai et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) account for a higher proportion of mortality and morbidity in the Caribbean and US territories-majority-minority communities-than in the United States or Canada. Strategies to address this disparity include enhancing data collection efforts among racial/ethnic communities. The ECHORN Cohort Study (ECS), a regional adult cohort study, estimates prevalence and assesses risk factors for NCDs in two United States terri…

  • Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and T2D diabetes in the Eastern Caribbean

    Open AccessCarol R Oladele, Neha Khandpur et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

    Objective: Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) are implicated in the increasing risk of diabetes in the Caribbean. Few studies have examined associations between SSB consumption and diabetes in the Caribbean. Design: SSB was measured as teaspoon/d using questions from the National Cancer Institute Dietary Screener Questionnaire about intake of soda, juice and coffee/tea during the past month. Diabetes was measured using self-report, HbA1C and use of …

  • Smartphones and Educational Apps Use Among Medical Students of a Smart University Campus

    Open AccessKeerti Singh, Sankalan Sarkar et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2021

    Background: Smartphones and medical education apps are popular with and are widely used by medical students to facilitate peer interactions, communication and collaboration in addition to their “learn anywhere” advantage. Smartphone use by medical students has not been studied in the English-speaking Caribbean. Study objectives were to assess in preclinical students attending the University of the West Indies in Barbados, smartphone ownership, us…

  • Anthropometric measures of obesity and associated cardiovascular disease risk in the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (Echorn) Cohort Study

    Open AccessSaria Hassan, Carol R Oladele et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Findings suggest that WHR is a better indicator than BMI of obesity-related CVD risk and should be used to target adults in the Caribbean, and of Caribbean-descent, for interventions

  • Phenotypes of Hypertensive Ambulatory Blood Pressure Patterns

    Erica S Spatz, J L Martinez-Brockman et al.ARTICLEEthnicity & Disease2019

    Assessment of ABPM, and the contextual factors influencing ABPM, can identify unique phenotypes of HTN, which can then be used to develop more precision-based approaches to the prevention, detection and treatment of HTN in high-risk populations

  • Understanding attitudes, barriers and challenges in a small island nation to disease and partner notification for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections

    Open AccessO Peter Adams, Anne O Carter et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    There was both concern that mandatory DN and PN would deter testing and recognition of the benefits. Public and practitioner education and enabling legislation would be necessary, and the public needed to be convinced that confidentiality would be maintained

  • Ethnicity and attitudes to deceased kidney donation

    Open AccessMyfanwy Morgan, O Peter Adams et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    Community attitudes in Barbados are favourable to deceased donation based on a system of informed consent. Comparison with south London data supports the hypothesis that the relatively high prevalence of negative attitudes to deceased donation among disadvantaged ethnic minorities in high income countries may reflect feelings of marginalization and lack of belonging