This document lists 24 publications by researchers studying health factors in Gambian communities. The publications cover topics such as: cardiovascular risk factors like hypertension in rural and urban Gambia; the role of family history in hypertension, obesity, and diabetes; prevalence of non-communicable diseases nationwide in Gambia; effects of maternal dietary supplements on birthweight and mortality in Gambia; and assessment of energy expenditure and muscle glycogen using non-invasive techniques. Many of the publications involve collaboration between researchers in Gambia and the UK or other countries.

1. PUBLICATIONS in International Scientific Journals:
(1) Marianne van der Sande, Gijs E.L. Walraven, Paul J.M. Milligan, Winston A.S. Banya, Sana M.
Ceesay, Ousman A. Nyan & Keith P.W.J. McAdam; Family history: an opportunity for early
interventions and improved control of hypertension, obesity and diabetes: Bulletin of the World
Health Organization; 2001, vol.79 no. (4), 321-328
(2) MAB van der Sande, PJM Milligan, OA Nyan, JTF Rowley, WAS Banya, S.M. Ceesay, WMV
Dolmans, Th Thien, KPWJ McAdam & GEL Walraven; Blood pressure patterns and cardiovascular
risk factors in rural and urban Gambian communities: Journal of Human Hypertension 2000, 14,
489-496
(3) Marianne van der Sande, Sana M. Ceesay, Paul Milligan, Winston Banya, Ousman Nyan, Andrew
Prentice and Keith McAdam and Gijs E. L. Walraven; Obesity and Undernutrition and Cardiovascular
Risk Factors in Rural and Urban Gambian Communities: American Journal of Public Health; 2001,
volume 91, No 10, 1641-1644
(4) Marianne van der Sande, G.E.L. Walraven, Robin Bailey, Jane Rowley, W.A.S.Banya, Ousman
Nyane, Hannah Faal, Sana M. Ceesay, Paul J.M. Milligan, Keith W. J. McAdam: Is there a role for
glycosuria testing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tropical medicine and International health 1999, p506-
513
(5) Marianne van der Sande, Robin Baily, Hannah Faal, Winston Banya, Paul Milligan, Ousman Nyan,
Sana M. Ceesay, Gijs Walraven, Gordon Johnson and Keith McAdam. Nationwide prevalence study
of hypertension and related non-communicable diseases in The Gambia: Tropical Medicine and
International Health, vol. 2, No 11; 1997; 1039 - 1048.
(6) Marianne van der Sande, Gijs Walraven, Ousman Nyan, Winston Banya, Sana M. Ceesay, Paul
Milligan, and Keith McAdam. Family history as risk factor for hypertension, obesity and diabetes: Int.
journal of Epidemiology: 2003.
(7) Sana M. Ceesay, G. Norris Melville, J.L. Mills, S.R. Wray; Comparative observations of mucus
transport velocity in health and disease. Respiration, 44; 1983; 184 - 188.
(8) Sana M. Ceesay, Andrew M. Prentice, Kenneth C. Day, Peter R. Murgatroyd, Gail R. Goldberg,
Wendy Scott and G. B. Spurr (University of Cambridge and Medical college of Wisconsin). The use of
heart rate monitoring in the estimation of energy expenditure: a validation study using indirect whole
body calorimetry: British Journal of Nutrition, 1989, v.61, p175-186
(9) Sana M. Ceesay, Andrew M. Prentice, Timothy J. Cole, Frances Foord, Lawrence T. Weaver,
Elizabeth M.E. Poskitt and Roger G. Whitehead; Effects on birthweight and perinatal mortality of
maternal dietary supplements in rural Gambia: A 5 year randomised controlled trial: British Medical
Journal, 1997; volume 315: 786 - 790
(10) Sana M. Ceesay, Gijs Walraven, Winston Banya, Ousman Nyan, Marianne Van der Sande,
Elizabeth Poskitt, Paul Milligan, Roger Whitehead, and Keith McAdam; Nutritional status of adults in
rural and urban Gambia: MRC 50TH anniversary Jubilee Scientific Meeting; 1997; Abstract 161,
Nov. 15 - 20th.
(11) Sana M. Ceesay, Andrew M. Prentice, Kenneth C. Day, Gail R. Goldberg, Peter R. Murgatroyd,
Wendy Scott, and G. B. Spurr; Estimation of energy expenditure by heart rate. Proc. Nut. Soc. 48;
1989; 66A.
(12) Sana M. Ceesay, S. Saidykhan, A.M. Prentice, T.J. Cole, K.C. Day, M.G.M. Rowland, L.T.
Weaver and R.G. Whitehead; Effect on birthweight of a community-based supplementation
programme for pregnant Gambian women: First year results. Proc. Nut. Soc. 51; 1991; 77A.

2. (13) O. A. Nyan, G. E. L. Walraven, W.A. S. Banya, P. Milligan, M. Van der Sande, S. M. Ceesay, G.
Del Prete, K. P. W. J. McAdam : Atopy: Intestinal helminth infection and total serum IgE in rural and
urban adult Gambian communities: Clinical and Experimental Allergy, vol 31, no 11, p1672-1678,
2001
(14) G. E. L. Walraven, O. A. Nyan, W. A. S. Banya, Sana M. Ceesay, P. J. M. Milligan, K. P. W. J.
McAdam: Asthma, smoking, and chronic cough in rural and urban adult communities in The Gambia
Clinical and experimental Allergy: vol 31, no 11, p 1679-1685, 2001
(15) Andrew M. Prentice, Sana M. Ceesay and Roger G. Whitehead; Maternal supplementation and
birthweight. THE LANCET, vol. 341; 1993.
(16) M. Barbara E. Livingston, Andrew M. Prentice, W. Andrew Coward, Sana M. Ceesay, John J.
Strain, P. Gerald McKenna, Gerald B. Nevin, Margo E. Barker, and Raymond J. Hickey; Simultaneous
measurement of free-living energy expenditure by the doubly-labelled water method and heart-rate
monitoring. AM. J. Clin. Nutr, 52; 1990; 59 - 65.
(17) M.B.E. Livingston, J.J. Strain, P.G. McKenna, W. A. Coward and S.M. Ceesay; Comparison of
heart rate monitoring with the doubly-labelled water method for measurement of energy expenditure
in free living subjects. Proc. Nut. Soc. 48; 1989; 68A.
(18) Prentice Ann, Vasquez-Velasquez L., Stirling D.M. and Ceesay S.M. Reduced faecal immune
protein excretion in breast-fed Gambian infants by 3 months of age. Proc. Nut. Soc. 47; 1988; 46A.
(19) M.A. Laskey, A. Prentice, J. Shaw, T. Zachou, S. M. Ceesay, L. Vasquez-Velasquez and D.R.
Fraser; Breast-milk calcium concentrations during prolonged lactation in British and rural Gambian
mothers. Acta Paediatr. Scand, 79; 1990; 507 - 512.
(20) Ann Prentice, A. MacCarthy, D.M. Stirling, L. Vasquez-Velasquez and S.M. Ceesay;Breast-milk
IgA and lactoferrin survival in the gastrointestinal tract - a study in rural Gambian children. Acta
Paediatr. Scand, 78; 1989; 505 - 512.
(21) Ann Prentice, Angela MacCarthy, Dorothy Stirling, L. Vasquez-Velasquez, and Sana M. Ceesay;
Persistence of breast-milk IgA and Lactoferrin in the gastrointestinal tract of Gambian children.
Fourth International Meeting of Human Lactation. 1989.
(22) P.R. Murgatroyd, Anna Whittekind, S. M. Ceesay, Claire Wilson, Gail Goldberg, and A.M.
Prentice; A non-invasive method for assessing muscle glycogen stores by whole-body calorimetry,
Proc. Nut. Soc. 49; 1990; 82A.
(23) P.R. Murgatroyd, B.J. Sonko, A. Whittekind, G.R. Goldberg, S.M. Ceesay and A.M.Prentice;
Non-invasive tecniques for assesing carbohydrate flux: I. Measurements of depletion by indirect
calorimetry.Acta Physiol. Scand, 147; 1993; 91 - 98.
(24) B.J. Sonko, P.R. Murgatroyd, G.R. Goldberg, W.A. Coward, S.M. Ceesay, and A.M. Prentice;
Non-invasive techniques for assessing carbohydrate flux: II. Measurement of deposition using 13 C-
glucose. Acta Physiol. Scand, 147; 1993; 99 - 108.