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Rainford Wilks

University of the West Indies SystemORCID

Also Known As

Damian K. Francis, Maureen Samms-Vaughan, Palmer, Colin N. A., R J Wilks, R Wilks, R. J. Wilks, R. Wilks, R.J. Wilks, RAINFORD WILKS, RJ Wilks

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14.5K

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University of the West Indies SystemUniversity of the West IndiesLoyola University ChicagoUniversity of ManchesterHarvard University
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About

Rainford Wilks is an author at University of the West Indies System specializing in public health, medicine, and obesity.

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Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

Bin Zhou, Rodrigo M. Carrillo‐Larco, Goodarz Danaei,

The Lancet

2021

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Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults

Nowell H Phelps, Rosie Singleton, Bin Zhou,

The Lancet

2024

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Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Honor Bixby, James Bentham, Bin Zhou,

Nature

2019

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The prevalence of hypertension in seven populations of west African origin.

Richard Cooper, Charles N. Rotimi, Susan L. Ataman,

American Journal of Public Health

1997

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Ischaemic stroke and combined oral contraceptives: results of an international, multicentre, case-control study

Neil R Poulter, Cheng Chang, TMM Farley,

The Lancet

1996

333

Genome-Wide Association Study of Coronary Heart Disease and Its Risk Factors in 8,090 African Americans: The NHLBI CARe Project

Guillaume Lettre, Cameron D. Palmer, Taylor Young,

PLoS Genetics

2011

315

Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol

Cristina Taddei, Bin Zhou, Honor Bixby,

Nature

2020

269

A prospective study of transmission by transfusion of HTLV‐I and risk factors associated with seroconversion

Angela Manns, Rainford Wilks, Edward L. Murphy,

International Journal of Cancer

1992

244

Relation between Body Mass Index and Body Fat in Black Population Samples from Nigeria, Jamaica, and the United States

Amy Luke, Ramón Durazo-Arvizú, C Rotimi,

American Journal of Epidemiology

1997

188

Fetal growth is directly related to maternal anthropometry and placental volume

M Thame, Clive Osmond, Franklyn I. Bennett,

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

2004

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