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Walid El Ansari is affiliated with the University of Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on Surgery and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. They have a significant contribution to related subfields including General Health Professions, Physiology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas connected to metabolic and surgical outcomes, as well as public health aspects. Main topics of their work include:

  • Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Esophageal and GI Pathology
  • Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Body Contouring and Surgery
  • Head and Neck Anomalies
  • Obesity and Health Practices

Walid El Ansari's recent papers reflect these research foci and include the following publications:

  • Weight Regain and Insufficient Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery: Definitions, Prevalence, Mechanisms, Predictors, Prevention and Management Strategies, and Knowledge Gaps-a Scoping Review (2021, Obesity Surgery)
  • Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Perceived Academic Performance? Survey of Undergraduates in Finland (2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their frequent co-authors include Wahiba Elhag, Abdelrahman Abdelaal, Mohamed Arafa, Mohamed Sheikh Hassan, and Kareem El-Ansari.

Walid El Ansari's scholarly work is regularly published in several journals, indicating consistent activity in both clinical and public health research contexts. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Obesity Surgery
  • International Journal of Surgery Case Reports
  • Arab Journal of Urology
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Annals of Medicine and Surgery

This body of work positions Walid El Ansari as an active contributor to the study and management of surgical outcomes, particularly bariatric surgery, and broader health issues relating to obesity and health behavior. Their contributions also extend into epidemiology and clinical pathology studies within public health frameworks.

Best Publications

  • Food consumption frequency and perceived stress and depressive symptoms among students in three European countries

    Rafael T Mikolajczyk;Walid El Ansari;Annette E Maxwell

  • Relationships between food consumption and living arrangements among university students in four European countries - A cross-sectional study

    Walid El Ansari;Christiane Stock;Rafael T Mikolajczyk;Rafael T Mikolajczyk

  • Weight Regain and Insufficient Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery : Definitions, Prevalence, Mechanisms, Predictors, Prevention and Management Strategies, and Knowledge Gaps—a Scoping Review

    Walid El Ansari;Walid El Ansari;Walid El Ansari;Wahiba Elhag

  • Is the Health and Wellbeing of University Students Associated with their Academic Performance? Cross Sectional Findings from the United Kingdom

    Walid El Ansari;Christiane Stock

  • Perceived exercise benefits and barriers of non-exercising female university students in the United Kingdom.

    Geoff P Lovell;Walid El Ansari;John K Parker

  • Collaboration and partnerships: developing the evidence base

    Walid El Ansari;Ceri J. Phillips;Marilyn Hammick

  • Health promoting behaviours and lifestyle characteristics of students at seven universities in the UK.

    Walid El Ansari;Christiane Stock;Jill John;Pat Deeny

  • Factors associated with self-rated health status in university students: a cross-sectional study in three European countries

    Rafael T Mikolajczyk;Patrick Brzoska;Claudia Maier;Veronika Ottova

  • Prevalence of depressive symptoms in university students from Germany, Denmark, Poland and Bulgaria.

    Rafael T. Mikolajczyk;Annette E. Maxwell;Walid El Ansari;Vihra Naydenova

  • Food and mental health: relationship between food and perceived stress and depressive symptoms among university students in the United Kingdom.

    Walid El Ansari;Hamed Adetunji;Reza Oskrochi

  • Depressive symptoms and perceived burdens related to being a student: Survey in three European countries

    Rafael T Mikolajczyk;Annette E Maxwell;Vihra Naydenova;Sabine Meier

  • Secular trends: a ten-year comparison of the amount and type of physical activity and inactivity of random samples of adolescents in the Czech Republic

    Dagmar Sigmundová;Walid El Ansari;Erik Sigmund;Karel Frömel

  • Relationship between perceived body weight and body mass index based on self- reported height and weight among university students: a cross-sectional study in seven European countries

    Rafael T Mikolajczyk;Rafael T Mikolajczyk;Annette E Maxwell;Walid El Ansari;Christiane Stock

  • Communication and Cultural Issues in Providing Reproductive Health Care to Immigrant Women: Health Care Providers’ Experiences in Meeting Somali Women Living in Finland

    Filio Degni;Sakari Suominen;Birgitta Essén;Walid El Ansari

  • How Do I Look? Body Image Perceptions among University Students from England and Denmark

    Walid El Ansari;Susanne Vodder Clausen;Andi Mabhala;Christiane Stock

  • Vitamin D treatment improves levels of sexual hormones, metabolic parameters and erectile function in middle-aged vitamin D deficient men

    Onder Canguven;Raidh A Talib;Walid El Ansari;Dany-Jan Yassin

  • Does school-based physical activity decrease overweight and obesity in children aged 6–9 years? A two-year non-randomized longitudinal intervention study in the Czech Republic

    Erik Sigmund;Walid El Ansari;Dagmar Sigmundová

  • Are perceived stress, depressive symptoms and religiosity associated with alcohol consumption? A survey of freshmen university students across five European countries

    Rene Sebena;Walid El Ansari;Christiane Stock;Olga Orosova

  • Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Academic Achievement in University Students

    Walid El Ansari;Christiane Stock;Claire D Mills

  • Are students' symptoms and health complaints associated with perceived stress at university? Perspectives from the United Kingdom and Egypt

    Walid El Ansari;Reza Oskrochi;Ghollamreza Haghgoo

  • Prevalence of dental caries among 12–14 year old children in Qatar

    Mohammed Al-Darwish;Walid El Ansari;Abdulbari Bener;Abdulbari Bener

Frequent Co-Authors

Sakari Suominen
Sakari Suominen University of Turku
Annette E. Maxwell
Annette E. Maxwell University of California, Los Angeles
Jeremy Dawson
Jeremy Dawson University of Sheffield
Alexander Krämer
Alexander Krämer Bielefeld University
Birgitta Essén
Birgitta Essén Uppsala University
Gillian E. Hardy
Gillian E. Hardy University of Sheffield
Andreas Richter
Andreas Richter University of Bremen
Anthony B. Zwi
Anthony B. Zwi University of New South Wales

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