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Pardis Pedram

postdoctoral fellow at University of Calgary
Verified email at mun.ca
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Food addiction: its prevalence and significant association with obesity in the general population

P Pedram, D Wadden, P Amini, W Gulliver, E Randell… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background ‘Food addiction’ shares a similar neurobiological and behavioral framework with
substance addiction. However whether, and to what degree, ‘food addiction’ contributes to …

[HTML][HTML] Higher dietary choline and betaine intakes are associated with better body composition in the adult population of Newfoundland, Canada

X Gao, Y Wang, E Randell, P Pedram, Y Yi, W Gulliver… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Choline is an essential nutrient and betaine is an osmolyte and methyl donor.
Both are important to maintain health including adequate lipid metabolism. Supplementation …

Hormonal and dietary characteristics in obese human subjects with and without food addiction

P Pedram, G Sun - Nutrients, 2014 - mdpi.com
The concept of food addiction (FA) is a potentially important contributing factor to the development
of obesity in the general population; however, little is known about the hormonal and …

Serum metabolic biomarkers distinguish metabolically healthy peripherally obese from unhealthy centrally obese individuals

X Gao, W Zhang, Y Wang, P Pedram, F Cahill… - Nutrition & …, 2016 - Springer
Background Metabolic abnormalities are more associated with central obesity than peripheral
obesity, but the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. The present study was to …

Significant beneficial association of high dietary selenium intake with reduced body fat in the CODING study

Y Wang, X Gao, P Pedram, M Shahidi, J Du, Y Yi… - Nutrients, 2016 - mdpi.com
Selenium (Se) is a trace element which plays an important role in adipocyte hypertrophy and
adipogenesis. Some studies suggest that variations in serum Se may be associated with …

Mental health among Canadian postsecondary students: a mental health crisis?

…, A Bhattarai, A Dores, P Pedram… - The Canadian …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: Recent reports express concerns about a mental health crisis among
postsecondary students. These assertions, however, often arise from surveys conducted in …

Methylphenidate modifies the motion of the circadian clock

…, HC Van Diepen, T Deboer, P Pedram… - …, 2012 - nature.com
People with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often experience sleep problems,
and these are frequently exacerbated by the methylphenidate they take to manage their …

High dietary selenium intake is associated with less insulin resistance in the Newfoundland population

Y Wang, M Lin, X Gao, P Pedram, J Du, C Vikram… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
As an essential nutrient, Selenium (Se) is involved in many metabolic activities including
mimicking insulin function. Data on Se in various biological samples and insulin resistance are …

Two novel candidate genes identified in adults from the Newfoundland population with addictive tendencies towards food

P Pedram, G Zhai, W Gulliver, H Zhang, G Sun - Appetite, 2017 - Elsevier
Food addiction (FA) is a distinguished clinical feature affecting about 5% adults of the general
population in Canada. FA contributes to obesity, however, the underlying genes in FA are …

Self-reported lifetime history of eating disorders and mortality in the general population: a canadian population survey with record linkage

P Pedram, SB Patten, AGM Bulloch, JVA Williams… - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Eating disorders (EDs) are often reported to have the highest mortality of any mental health
disorder. However, this assertion is based on clinical samples, which may provide an …