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Frequency of Consumption of Food Groups and Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors: A Genetically Informative Twin Study in Sri Lanka. (2023)
Journal Article
Zavos, H. M. S., Riddleston, L., Jayaweera, K., Dissanayake, L., Jabir, S., Pannala, G., Hotopf, M., Siribaddana, S., Sumathipala, A., & Rijsdijk, F. V. (in press). Frequency of Consumption of Food Groups and Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors: A Genetically Informative Twin Study in Sri Lanka. Behavior Genetics, 54, 73–85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-023-10165-8

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) globally have undergone rapid urbanisation, and changes in demography and health behaviours. In Sri Lanka, cardio-vascular disease and diabetes are now leading causes of mortality. High prevalence of their ris... Read More about Frequency of Consumption of Food Groups and Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors: A Genetically Informative Twin Study in Sri Lanka..

Associations between socioeconomic factors and depression in Sri Lanka: The role of gene-environment interplay (2023)
Journal Article
Badini, I., Jayaweera, K., Pannala, G., Adikari, A., Siribaddana, S., Sumathipala, A., McAdams, T. A., Harber-Aschan, L., Hotopf, M., Rijsdijk, F. V., & Zavos, H. M. (2023). Associations between socioeconomic factors and depression in Sri Lanka: The role of gene-environment interplay. Journal of Affective Disorders, 340, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.07.084

Background: Low socioeconomic status is a risk factor for depression. The nature and magnitude of associations can differ cross-culturally and is influenced by a range of contextual factors. We examined the aetiology of so-cioeconomic indicators and... Read More about Associations between socioeconomic factors and depression in Sri Lanka: The role of gene-environment interplay.

Natural disaster and risk preferences: evidence from Sri Lankan twins (2023)
Journal Article
Kettlewell, N., Rijsdijk, F., Siribaddana, S., Sumathipala, A., Tymula, A., Zavos, H., & Glozier, N. (2024). Natural disaster and risk preferences: evidence from Sri Lankan twins. Applied Economics, 56(5), 558-581. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2023.2168616

Under-representation of low and middle income countries (LMIC) in the research literature: Ethical issues arising from a survey of five leading medical journals: have the trends changed? (2023)
Journal Article
Woods, W. A., Watson, M., Ranaweera, S., Tajuria, G., & Sumathipala, A. (2023). Under-representation of low and middle income countries (LMIC) in the research literature: Ethical issues arising from a survey of five leading medical journals: have the trends changed?. Global Public Health, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2023.2229890