Dr. Avula Laxmaiah holds degrees in Medicine, a Master of Public Health, a Master of Business Administration, and a PhD from NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada, India. He is a distinguished public health and nutrition expert with extensive experience in research, policy development, and program implementation.

He has demonstrated strong expertise in conducting health and nutrition research, contributing to several national and state-level committees, and developing practical solutions to public health challenges. His work has significantly contributed to the formulation of dietary guidelines, including estimating nutrient requirements and recommended dietary allowances. He has also played a key role in designing intervention models aimed at reducing the risk of non-communicable diseases and promoting healthy lifestyles.

Dr. Laxmaiah has published over 160 research papers in reputed peer-reviewed journals, including The Lancet, Nature, BMJ, and eLife, along with more than 100 articles in non-peer-reviewed platforms.

He is a recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships, including the IUNS Training & Travel Grant, and has undergone advanced training in leading UK institutions. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), and has been listed among the world’s top 2% scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier (2023–2025). He also serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals.

• Undernutrition
• Overnutrition
• Micronutrient Deficiencies
• Diet Surveys
• Healthy Diet
• Hypertension
• Nutrition Biomarkers
• Cardiometabolic Risk Factors
• Thyroid Hormones
• Diabetes
• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Obesity
• Childhood Obesity
• Vitamin and Mineral Diseases
• Anemia

• Laxmaiah A, Rameshwar Sarma KV, Rao DH, Reddy G, Ravindranath M, Rao MV, Vijayaraghavan K. Impact of mid day meal program on educational and nutritional status of school children in Karnataka. Indian pediatrics. 1999 Dec; 36(12):1221-8. (Impact Factor 2.169) Citations 50.
• Madhavan Nair K., Brahmam. G.N.V., Laxmaiah, A., Ch. Gal Reddy, Vishnuvardhana Rao, M., Ranganathan, S., Vijayaraghavan, K., Sivakumar, B., and Kamala Krishnaswamy. Sodium hexa meta phosphate (SHMP) as a stabilizer of double fortified (Iron and Iodine) salt does not alter the calcium and phosphorous homeostasis. Proceedings of the 8th World Salt Symposium, Ed. Rob M. Geertman, Elsevier, Amsterdam, vol. 2, pp 1253-1254, 2000.
• GNV, Brahmam, Nair KM, Laxmaiah A, Gal Reddy Ch, Ranganathan S, Vishnuvardhana Rao M, Nadamuni Naidu N, Vijayaraghavan K, Sivakumar B, Kamala Krishnaswamy, Gowrinath Sastry J, Mohan Ram M, Pralhad Rao N, Vinodini Reddy. Community trial with iron and iodine fortified salt (Double fortified salt). Proceedings of the 8th World Salt Symposium, Ed. Rob M. Geertman, Elsevier, Amsterdam, vol. 2, pp 955-960, 2000.
• Laxmaiah, A., Galreddy,Ch., Ravindranath, M., Vishnuvardhan Rao, M,. Brahmam, G.N.V., Hanmantha Rao, D and Vijayaraghavan, K. An Evaluation of World Bank Assisted Nutrition Project (ICDS) in Andhra Pradesh, India. Ann Nutr & metab, 2001; 445 (Suppl 1): 297. (Impact Factor 2.26) Citations 2
• Laxmaiah, A., Rao, K.M., Brahmam, G.N.V., Ravindranath, M., Kashinath, K., Radhaiah, G., Rao, D.H., and Vijayaraghavan, K. Diet & Nutritional status of rural preschool children in Punjab. Ind. Pediatrics, 2002, 39: pp 331-338. (Impact Factor 2.169) Citations 39.
• Vijayaraghavan K., Surya Prakasham B and Laxmaiah A. Intra Family distribution of dietary energy in Rural India and Time trends, Food & Nutr Bull 2002; 23 (4): 390-394. (Impact Factor: 1.568) No. of Citations 5.
• B Surya Prakasam, A Laxmaiah, FM Delange, TN Kibambe, A Ouedraogo, A Acakpo, M Salami, PL Jooste, Haifa Tawfeek, Francisco Franco Feitosa Teles. Special Issue on Biotechnology-Derived Nutritious Foods for Developing Countries: Needs, Opportunities, and Barriers. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, vol. 23, no. 4 © 2002: 378-381.
• Laxmaiah A and Vijayaraghavan K. Family level preparedness during drought, Health Action, 2003; 4: 13-15.
• Rao KM, Laxmaiah A, Ravindranath M, Venkaiah K, Rao DH, Brahmam GN, Vijayaraghavan K. Diet and nutrition during drought in Western Rajasthan, India. J. Hum. Ecol. 2003; 14(3):153-8. Citations 10.
• Mallikharjuna Rao, K., Balakrishna,N; Laxmaiah,A., Venkaiah, K and Brahmam,G.N.V. Diet and nutritional status of adolescent tribal population in nine States of India. Asia Pac J Clin Nutri 2006; 15 (1): 64-71. (Impact Factor: 0.567) Citations 122.
• Other participants of the conference and Laxmaiah. A &: Mysore Declaration-Capacity strengthening in Nutrition, Ann Nutr Metab 2006; 50 (5): 403-406 (Impact Factor: 2.26) Citations 2
• Balakrishna N, Arlappa N, Laxmaiah A, Galreddy CH, Brahmam GN. Association between anthropometric measurements and hypertension: A study among rural elderly, in India. In Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 2007 Jan 1 (Vol. 51, pp. 116-116). (Impact Factor: 2.26)
• N Arlappa N Balakrishna A Laxmaiah, GNV Brahmam. Pattern of indigenous vegetables and legumes consumption in rural India. Pattern of indigenous Vegetables and Legumes consumption in Rural India, Acta Horticulture, September 2007; 752: 505-508.
• Laxmaiah, A., Balakrishna, N., Vijayaraghavan, K and Nair, VM. “ Factors affecting prevalence of overweight among 12-17 year urban Adolescents in Hyderabad, India”, OBESITY (Silver Spring), 2007; 15 (6): 1384-90 (Impact Factor: 4.284) No. of Citations: 247.
• Laxmaiah, A., Arlappa, N., Harikumar. R., Venkaiah, K and Brahmam, GNVB. “Diet and Nutrition Status among Tribal population in the ITDA areas, Bhadrachalam, Khammam” J Hum Ecol, 2007; 21 (2) 79-86 (No. of Citations: 6).
• Arlappa N., Balakrishna N., Laxmaiah A., Harikumar R, Brahmam GNV. Clinical and Sub-Clinical Vitamin A deficiency among Rural Pre-school Children of Maharashtra, India. Annals of Human Biology, 2008; 35 (6): 606-14 (Impact Factor: 1.58) No. of Citations: 42
• G.M. Antony and A. Laxmaiah. Human development, poverty, health & nutrition situation in India, Indian J Med Res., 2008; 128 (8):194-201. (Impact Factor: 1.826) No. of Citations: 79
• Meshram II, Laxmaiah A, Reddy GC, Ravindranath M, Venkaiah K, Brahmam GN. Nutritional status of > 3 years children & its correlates in Rural areas of Medak district, Andhra Pradesh. Annals of Nutrtion and Metabolism 2009; 1: 352-35 (Impact Factor: 2.848).
• Avula Laxmaiah; Galreddy, Ch; Ravindranath, Manchala; Venkaia, Kodali; Brahmam, Ginnela Narsihma Veera. “The Impact of ‘Positive Deviance Programme’ in Prevention and control of undernutrition among under 3 year children”, Ann Nutr Metab 2009; 55 (Suppl 1): 104. (Impact Factor: 2.848) No. of Citations: 2
• Avula Laxmaiah, Nagalla Balakrishna, Manchala Ravindranath, GNV. Brahmam, Boindala Sesikeran. Physical inactivity, consumption of carbonated beverages, high body fat and hypertension among urban Adolescents in Andhra Pradesh, OBESITY (Silver Spring) 2009; 17 (S2): S223. (Impact Factor: 4.284) No. of Citations: 2
• Laxmaiah A, Brahmam GNV. Nutritional Status of Rural population in India. Yojana, 2009: 25-27.
• Arlappa, N., Balakrishna, N., Laxmaiah, A and Brahmam, G. N. V. Prevalence of anaemia among rural pre-school children of West Bengal, India, Annals of Human Biology, 2010; 37(2): 231-242. (Impact Factor: 1.975) No. of Citations: 22.
• K. Mallikharjuna Rao, N. Balakrishna, N. Arlappa, A. Laxmaiah and G.N.V. Brahmam. Diet and Nutritional Status of Women in India, J Hum Ecol, 2010; 29(3): 165-170. No. of Citations 4.
• Avula Laxmaiah, Ramesh Pandita. The Prevalence of Obesity and Factors Contributing to It in School Going Children between 5-12 Years. Researchgate.net 2010.
• Arlappa N, Laxmaiah A, Balakrishna N, Harikumar R, Galreddy C, Mallikarjuna R, Sharadkumar K, Ravindranath M, Brahman GN. Prevalence of Abdominal Obesity and Its Relationship with Hypertension Among the Rural Elderly in India. In OBESITY 2010 Oct 1 (Vol. 18, pp. S222-S223) (Impact Factor: 4.956) Citations 1.
• Arlappa N, Laxmaiah A, Balakrishna N, Brahmam GN. Consumption pattern of pulses, vegetables and nutrients among rural population in India. African Journal of Food Science. 2010, Oct 31; 4(10): 668-75. (Impact Factor: 0.219) Citations 22.
• Laxmaiah A, Rao VS, Rao MG, Brahmam GN. Consumer behaviours in reading Food Labels in India. Developed under Government of India & World Health Organization Collaborative Programme (Biennium 2008-09).https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=17752165208569914450&hl=en&oi=scholarr.
• N Arlappa, N Balakrishna, A Laxmaiah, K Madhavan Nair, GNV Brahmam. Prevalence of Clinical and Sub-clinical Vitamin A Deficiency among Rural Preschool Children of West Bengal, India. Indian Pediatrics. January 2011; 47-49. (Impact Factor: 2.169) No. of Citations: 22.
• N.Arlappa, N. Balakrishna, A. Laxmaiah, Pullakhandam Raghu, V. Vikas Rao, K. Madhavan Nair & G. N. V. Brahmam. Prevalence of vitamin A deficiency and its determinants among the rural pre-school children of Madhya Pradesh, India. Annals of Human Biology, March–April 2011; 38(2): 131–136 (Impact Factor: 1.975) No. of Citations: 40.
• Kamala K, Avula L. Nutrition related non-communicable chronic disorders. Public Health Nutrition in developing countries: WPI Publishing; 2015; 993-1018
• Little Flower Augustine, Shahnaz Vazir, Sylvia Fernandez Rao, M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao, A. Laxmaiah & K. Madhavan Nair. Perceived stress, life events & coping among higher secondary students of Hyderabad, India: A pilot study. Indian J Med Res, 2011; 134: 61-68. (Impact Factor: 1.826) No. of Citations: 81
• Arlappa N, Laxmaiah A, Balakrishna N, Harikumar R, Kodavanti MR, Gal Reddy Ch, Saradkumar S, Ravindranath M, Brahmam GNV. Micronutrient deficiency disorders among the rural children of West Bengal, India. Ann Hum Biol. 2011; 38(3):281-9. (Impact Factor: 1.975) No. of Citations: 33.
• Meshram II, Laxmaiah A, Venkaiah K, and Brahmam GNV. Impact of feeding and breast feeding practices on the Nutritional status of infants in a district of Andhra Pradesh, India. National Medical Journal of India 2011; 25(4): 201-206. Impact Factor: 0.91, Citations 75
• Anoop Misra, Rekha Sharma, Seema Gulati, Shashank R. Joshi, Vinita Sharma, Ghafoorunissa, Ahamed Ibrahim, Shilpa Joshi, Avula Laxmaiah, Anura Kurpad et al. Consensus Dietary Guidelines for Healthy Living and Prevention of Obesity, the Metabolic Syndrome, Diabetes, and Related Disorders in Asian Indians, DIABETES TECHNOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS, 2011; 13 (6):683-694. (Impact Factor: 4.403) No. of Citations 119.
• Laxmaiah A, Nair MK, Arlappa N, Raghu P, Balakrishna N, Rao KM, Galreddy C, Kumar S, Ravindranath M, Rao VV, Brahmam GN. Prevalence of ocular signs and subclinical vitamin A deficiency and its determinants among rural preschool children in India. Public Health Nutr. 2012 Apr;15(4):568-77. Doi:10.1017/ S136898001100214X. Epub 2011 Sep. PMID: 21884647. (Impact Factor- 3.182), Citations 56.
• Rao KM, Arlappa N, Radhika MS, Balakrishna N, Laxmaiah A, Brahmam GN. Correlation of Fat Mass Index and Fat-Free Mass Index with percentage body fat and their association with hypertension among urban South Indian adult men and women. Annals of human biology. 2012 Jan 1; 39(1): 54-8. (Impact Factor: 1.975) No. of Citations: 24.
• Arlappa N, Balakrishna N, Laxmaiah A, Brahmam GN. Prevalence of anaemia among rural pre-school children of Maharashtra, India. Indian Journal of Community Health. 2012, Mar 15; 24(1): 4-8. Impact Factor 0.163, Citations 16.
• Meshram II, Laxmaiah A, Venkaiah K, Brahmam GN. Impact of feeding and breastfeeding practices on the nutritional status of infants in a district of Andhra Pradesh, India. National Medical Journal of India. 2012 Jul 1; 25(4): 201-206. (Impact Factor: 0.595) No. of Citations 75.
• Meshram II, Arlappa N, Balkrishna N, Rao KM, Laxmaiah A, Brahmam GN. Prevalence of hypertension, its correlates and awareness among adult tribal population of Kerala state, India. Journal of postgraduate medicine. 2012 Oct 1; 58(4): 255-261. (Impact Factor: 0.855) Citations 72
• Meshram II, Arlappa N, Balakrishna N, Laxmaiah A, Mallikarjun Rao K, Gal Reddy C, Ravindranath M, Sharad Kumar S, Brahmam GNV. Prevalence and Determinants of Undernutrition and its Trends among Pre-School Tribal Children of Maharashtra State, India. J Trop Pediatr. 2012; 58(2): 125-32. (Impact Factor: 1.234) No. of Citations 53.
• Little Flower Augustine, Shahnaz Vazir, Sylvia Fernandez Rao, M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao, A. Laxmaiah P.Ravinder, V.Vikas Rao, K. Madhavan Nair. Psychometric validation of a knowledge questionnaire on micronutrients among adolescents and its relationship to micronutrient status of 15-19 year old adolescent boys, Hyderabad, India, Public Health Nutrition 2012; 15 (7): 1182-1189. (Impact Factor: 3.182) No. of Citations: 13
• Meshram II, Arlappa N, Avula Laxmaiah MBBS MP. Trends in the prevalence of undernutrition, nutrient & food intake and predictors of undernutrition among under five year tribal children in India. Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition. 2012 Dec 1; 21(4): 568-76. (Impact Factor: 1.335) Citations 127.
• Laxmaiah A, Arlappa N, Raghu P, Balakrishna N, Mallikharjuna Rao K, Galreddy C, Kumar S, Ravindranath M, Vikas Rao V, Nair MK, Brahmam GNV. Prevalence and determinants of micronutrient deficiencies among rural children in 8 states of India. Ann Nutr Metab. 2013; 62: 229-239. (Impact Factor- 2.848), Citations 30.
• Venkaiah K, GM Reddy, Meshram II, KM Rao, Gal Reddy Ch, Ravindranath M, Sharad Kumar S, Laxmaiah A, The geographic clustering of districts according to prevalence of underweight among under 5 year children in Madhya Pradesh, India Ann Nutr Metab 2013; 63:948-48. (Impact Factor: 2.848).
• A Laxmaiah, N Arlappa, II Mesharam, N Balakrishna, K Mallikharjuna Rao, C Galreddy, S Kumar, M Ravindranath. Time trends in diet and nutritional status of Rural and Tribal population in India: a longitudinal National Nutrition Monitoring Buearu (NNMB) Surveys.Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism 2013; 63:363-364.
• Laxmaiah A, Arlappa N, Balakrishna N, Mallikarjuna Rao K, Galreddy C, Kumar S, Ravindranath M, Brahmam GN. Prevalence and determinants of micronutrient deficiencies among rural children of eight states in India. Ann Nutr Metab. 2013;62(3):231-41. doi: 10.1159/000348674. Epub 2013 Apr 6. PMID: 23571818. (Impact Factor: 2.848), Citations 30.
• Harikumar Rachakulla, N. Arlappa, N. Balakrishna, A. Laxmaiah. ‘Faulty infant and young children and feeding practices in India and its impact on their nutritional status’ Accepted for poster presentation in the 2nd International conference on Nutrition and Growth -2014 held at Barcelona, Spain, during 30th January to 1st February, 2014. Published as proceedings; abstract: 348.
• Laxmaiah A. Balakrishna N, Arlappa N., Meshram II., Harikumar R and Mallikharjun Rao K. Trends in Consumption of fats and oils among Indian Tribal Population over a period of 30 years: Findings of National Nutrition Monitoring Surveys, Indian Journal of Community Health 2014; 26 (Sppl 01): 75-82. (Impact Factor: 0.163), Citations – 3
• A. Laxmaiah A et al. Prevalence and determinants of Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome among urban adults 20-60 years old in Hyderabad, South India, Obesity Reviews 2014; 15 (Suppl. 2): 82 (53–97). (Impact Factor: 3.614).
• Meshram II, Balakrishna N, Arlappa N, Rao KM, Laxmaiah A, Brahmam GN. Prevalence of Undernutrition, Its Determinants, and Seasonal Variation Among Tribal Preschool Children of Odisha State, India. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health. 2014 Sep 1;26(5):470-80. (Impact Factor: 1.459) Citations 22.
• Meshram II, Laxmaiah A, Mallikharjun Rao K, Arlappa N, Balkrishna N. Prevalence of Hypertension and Its Correlates among Adult Tribal Population (≥ 20 Years) of Maharashtra State, India. International Journal of Health Sciences and Research (IJHSR). 2014;4(1):130-9. Impact Factor: 3.5, Citations 21
• Nimmathota Arlappa, Indrapal I Meshram, Nagalla Balakrishna, Rachkula Harikumar, Kodavanti Mallikharjuna Rao, Avula Laxmaiah. Prevalence of anaemia among different physiological groups in the rural areas of Maharashtra. Indian Journal of Community Health 2014; 26(03): 278-284.
• Vemula SR, Gavaravarapu SM, Mendu VV, Mathur P, Avula L. Use of food label information by urban consumers in India– a study among supermarket shoppers. Public health nutrition. 2014 Sep 1;17(09):2104-14. Impact Factor: 3.182, Citations 68.
• Nimmathota Arlappa, Avula Laxmaiah, Nagalla Balakrishna, Rachakulla Harikumar, Mallikharjun Rao K and GNV. Brahmam. Prevalence of Hypertension and Relationship with adiposity among Rural Elderly population. Int J Clin Cardiol 2014; 1-6.
• Augustine, Little Flower, et al. "Adolescent Life-Event Stress in Boys Is Associated with Elevated IL-6 and Hepcidin but Not Hypoferremia." Journal of the American College of Nutrition 33.5 (2014): 354-362. (Impact Factor: 2.75, Citations 6.)
• Indrapal Ishwarji Meshram, Kodavanti Mallikharjuna Rao, Chitty Galreddy, Kakani Sreerama Krishna, Kodali, Avula Laxmaiah, Ginnela Narasimhacahary Veera Brahmam. Predictors of ante-natal care, delivery and infant feeding practices among rural women in Madhya Pradesh, India. International Journal of Medicine and Public Health 2014 (Oct-Dec); 4 (4): 385-391.
• Meshram II, Kodavanti MR, Chitty GR, Manchala R, Kumar S, Kakani SK, Kodavalla V, Avula L, Veera BG. Influence of feeding practices and associated factors on the nutritional status of infants in rural areas of Madhya Pradesh state, India. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health. 2015 Mar 1;27(2):NP1345-61. Impact Factor: 1.459, Citations 39.
• Meshram II, Rao S, Laxmaiah A, Polasa K. Prevalence and Correlates of Hypertension & Diabetes among≥ 18 Years Urban Population in India. British Biomedical Bulletin. 2015 Apr 13;3(2):176-89. Impact Factor: 3.045, Citations 5.
• Laxmaiah A. Meshram II., Mallikharjun Rao K., Balakrishna N, Ch. Gal Reddy, Ravindranath M, Sharad Kumar S., Mr. Sree Ramakrishna K. Socio-economic & demographic determinants of hypertension & knowledge, practices and risk behaviors of tribal in India. Indian J Med Res 2015; 141(5): 697-708. Impact Factor: 1.66, Citations 56.
• A. Laxmaiah. Vitamin B12 and Folic acid Significance in Human Health. Indian Pediatrics 2015; 52 (5): 380-81. Impact Factor: 1.186, Citations 6.
• K MallikarjunaRao, R Hari Kumar, K Sriramakrishna, V Basker, A Laxmaiah. Diet & Nutrition profile of Chenchu population-A vulnerable tribe in Telangana & Andhra Pradesh, India. Indian J Med Res 2015; 141(5): 688-696. (Impact Factor: 1.503), Citations 19.
• NCD Risk Factor Collaboration. Effects of diabetes definition on global surveillance of diabetes prevalence and diagnosis: a pooled analysis of 96 population-based studies with 331 288 participants. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. 2015 Aug 31; 3(8): 624-37. Impact Factor: 25.34, Citations 140
• Venkaiah K, Indrapal I. Meshram, Manohar G., Mallikharjun Rao K., Ramakrisha K., Laxmaiah A. Development of composite index and ranking the districts using nutrition survey data in Madhya Pradesh, India. Indian Journal of Community Health 2015; 27(02): 204-210. (Impact Factor: 0.163), Citations 4.
• Meshram II, Balakrishna N, Sreeramakrishna K, Rao KM, Kumar RH, Arlappa N, Manohar G, Reddy CG, Ravindranath M, Kumar SS, Brahmam GN. Trends in nutritional status and nutrient intakes and correlates of overweight/obesity among rural adult women (≥ 18–60 years) in India: National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) national surveys. Public Health Nutrition. 2015 Aug 7:1-0. 2.8 Impact Factor: 3.182, Citations 28
• Venkaiah Kodavalla, Indrapal I. Meshram, Mallikharjun Rao Kodavanti, Chitty Gal Reddy, Ravindranath Manchala, Sharad Kumar, Sree Ramakrishna Kakani, Laxmaiah Avula, Brahmam Ginnela Narsimhachary Veera. Nutrition profile of under-five year rural children and correlates of undernutrition in central India. Indian Journal of Community Health / Vol 27 / Issue No 04 / Oct – Dec 2015. (Impact Factor: 0.163), Citations 3
• Nimmathota Arlappa, Nagalla Balakrishna, Avula Laxmaiah, GNV. Brahmam. Ocular manifestations of vitamin A deficiency among rural preschool children of North India. Journal of Ophthalmic Science, 2015 Volume No: 1( 2): 1-11.
• Trends in nutrient intakes, nutritional status, and correlates of undernutrition among rural children below 5 years of age: National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) survey 2012. Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, 2015; October 2015; 61 (4): 35-42.
• Kodavalla V, Kokku SB, Nimmathota A, Kodavanti MR, Ch GR, Kumar S, Manchala R, Avula L, GNV B. Impact of Chronic Drought on Nutritional Status of the Community in Drought affected areas in India. Indian J Community Health 2015; 27(4):480-486.
• Gavaravarapu SM, Rao KM, Nagalla B, Avula L. Assessing Differences in Risk Perceptions About Obesity Among "Normal- Weight" and "Overweight" Adolescents--A Qualitative Study. J Nutr Educ Behav. 2015 Nov-Dec;47(6):488-497.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jneb.2015.07.001. Epub 2015 Aug 24. PMID: 26311140. (Impact Factor: 2.502), Citations 17.
• Jeemon P, Narayanan G, Kondal D, Kahol K, Bharadwaj A, Laxmaiah A, Rao M, Meshram II, Balakrishna N, et al. Task shifting of frontline community health workers for cardiovascular risk reduction: design and rationale of a cluster randomized controlled trial (DISHA study) in India. BMC Public Health. 2016, Mar 15;16:264. (Impact Factor :1.431), Citations 23.
• Nimmathota Arlappa, Nagalla Balakrishna, Avula Laxmaiah, GNV Brahmam. Arm Span is an Alternative to Standing Height for Calculation of Body Mass Index (BMI) amongst Older Adults. International Journal of Nutrition 2016; 2(1): 12-24.
• NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) Avula Laxmaiah (Co-author). Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4·4 million participants. The Lancet April 6, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00618-8. (Impact Factor : 60.392), Citations 2914.
• Ian Anderson, … Avula Laxmaiah, Indrapal Meshram, Balkrishna Nagalla, Arlappa Nimmathota, et al. Indigenous and tribal peoples’ health (The Lancet–Lowitja Institute Global Collaboration): a population study. The Lancet, April 20, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(16)00345-7. (Impact Factor : 60.392), Citations 654.
• Indrapal Meshram, Avula laxmaiah, M.Vishnu Vardhana Rao, Vemula Sudershan Rao, Kalpagam Polasa. Regional variation in the prevalence of overweight/obesity, hypertension, and diabetes and their correlates among ≥18 years rural population in India". Br J Nutr. 2016 Apr 14;115(7):1265-72. Impact Factor 4.03, Citations 29
• Meshram II, Mallikharjun Rao K, Ch Gal Reddy, Ravindranath M, Sharad Kumar S, Sreerama Krishna K, Hari Kumar R, Venkaiah K and Laxmaiah A. Prevalence of Under Nutrition and its Predictors among Under 5 Year Children in Surat Region, Gujarat, India. 2016, J Clin Nutr Diet 2:1: 1-12. (Impact Factor : 6.77), Citations 18.
• S Kumar, Sreerama Krishna, A Laxmaiah. Prevalence of Under Nutrition and its Predictors among Under 5 Year Children in Surat Region, Gujarat, India. Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2016;
• NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) Avula Laxmaiah (Co-author). Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants. The Lancet 2016; 387: 1377–96. (Impact Factor : 60.392), Citations 3814
• Little Flower Augustine , Krishnapillai Madhavan Nair, Sylvia Fernandez Rao, Mendu Vishnu Vardhana Rao, Punjal Ravinder & Avula Laxmaiah. Exploring the bio-behavioural link between stress, allostatic load & micronutrient status: A cross-sectional study among adolescent boys. Indian J Med Res 144, September 2016, pp 378-384 (DOI: 10.4103/0971- 5916.198675). (Impact Factor : 1.503), Citations 7.
• N Arlappa, N Balakrishna, R Harikumar, I I Meshram, K Mallikharjuna Rao, Sharad Kumar, M Ravindranath, G Manohar Reddy and A Laxmaiah. Magnitude of multiple micro-nutrient malnutrition among the rural children in India. Paper presented in 5th European Nutrition and Dietetics Conference, Rome Italy. . J Nutr Food Sci 2016, 6: 3(Suppl): 39.
• Meshram II, Mallikharjun Rao K. Ch Gal Reddy, Ravindranath M, Sharad Kumar, Sreeramakrishna K, Harikumar R, Venkaiah K, Laxmaiah A. Urban rural difference in the prevalence of undernutrition and its correlates among under 5 year children in Surat region, Gujarat, India . J Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics 2016;2:1-6 (Impact Factor : 1.52).
• Meshram II, Balakrishna N., Sree Ramakrishna K, Mallikharjun Rao K., Hari Kumar R, Arlappa N., Manohar G, Ch. Gal Reddy, Ravindranath M, Sharad Kumar S., Brahmam G.N.V, Laxmaiah A. Trends in nutritional status & nutrient intakes and correlates of overweight/obesity among rural adult (18-60 years) women in India: National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) National surveys. PHN, 2016; 19(5) April: 767–776. (Impact Factor: 3.182), Citations 28.
• Anderson I, Robson B, Connolly M, Al-Yaman F, Bjertness E, King A, Tynan M...Nimmathota Arlappa. Indigenous and tribal peoples' health (The Lancet-Lowitja Institute Global Collaboration): a population study. Lancet. 2016 Jul 9; 388(10040):131-57. (Multi-Author Publication). (Impact Factor :60.392), Citations 654.
• NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). A Century of trends in Adult Human Height. Elife. 2016 Jul 26;5. pii: e13410. doi: 10.7554/eLife.13410. (Multi-Author Publication). (Impact Factor : 7.08), Citations 443.
• Arlappa N, Balakrishna N,Kokku SB, Harikumar R, Mallikharju Rao K, Ravindranath M, Sharad Kumar, Ramakrishna KS, Laxmaiah A, Brahmam GNV. Diet and Nutritional status of the older adults in rural India. J Ageing Research and Health Care. 2016 Aug; 1(1):36-48.
• Nimmathota Arlappa, Nagalla Balakrishna, Avula Laxmaiah, GNV Brahmam (2016) Vitamin A deficiency Disorders among the Rural Pre-School Children of South India. International Journal of Nutrition - 2(1):1-11. (Impact Factor 0.82), Citations 2.
• NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants. Lancet. 2017 Jan 7; 389(10064):37-55. (Multi- Author Publication).(Impact Factor 60.392) Citations 1760.
• Nimmathota Arlappa, Nagalla Balakrishna, Suresh Babu Kokku, Rachakula Harikumar, Kodavanti Mallikharju Rao, Manchala Ravindranath, Sharad Kumar, KS Ramakrishna, Avula Laxmaiah, GNV Brahmam. Assessment of nutritional status of rural elderly population in India.Journal of Aging Research and Healthcare 2016.
• A Laxmaiah, N Balakrishna, N Arlappa, I Meshram, R Harikumar. Body mass index Trajectories of Indegenous Indian Adult population and in relation to diet , physical activity, and Socioeconomic factors. ANNALS OF NUTRITION AND METABOLISM 71, 761-762.
• Meshram II, Hari Kumar R, Balakrishna N., Ch. Gal Reddy, Ravindranath M, Sree Ramakrishna K, Mallikharjun Rao K., Sharad Kumar S., Manohar G, Brahmam G.N.V, Laxmaiah A. Trends in nutrient intakes, nutritional status and correlates of undernutrition among rural children below 5 years of age: NNMB National survey. JPGM, 2017, 16 (2);84-91. (Impact Factor 0.855) Citations 5.
• Bhavani Shankar, Sutapa Agrawal, Amy R. Beaudreault, A. Laxmaiah, Reynaldo Martorell, Saskia Osendarp, D. Prabhakaran, Mireille Seneclauze Mclean. Dietary and Nutritional Changes in India: Implications for Strategies, Policies and Interventions. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2017, ISSN 077-8923; 1-11. (Impact Factor 4.728) Citations 40.
• Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, G Anil Kumar, D K Shukla, Vinod K Paul, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Nikhil Tandon Avula Laxmaiah et al. Nations within a nation: variations in epidemiological transition across the states of India, 1990–2016 in the Global Burden of Disease Study. Lancet 2017; 390: 2437–60. (Impact Factor 60.392) Citations 558.
• Nimmathota Arlappa, Nagalla Balakrishna, Avula Laxmaiah, GNV Brahmam. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is still a major nutritional problem of public health importance among the rural pre-school children in India. Journal of Ophthalmicsc IENCE 2016.
• Zhou B, Bentham J, Di Cesare M, Bixby H, Danaei G, Cowan MJ, Paciorek CJ, Singh G, Hajifathalian K, Bennett JE, Taddei C, Bilano V, Carrillo-Larco RM, Djalalinia S, Khatibzadeh S, Lugero C, Peykari N, Zhang WZ, Lu Y, Stevens GA, Riley LM, Bovet P, Elliott P, Gu D, Ikeda N, Jackson RT, Joffres M, Kengne AP, Laatikainen T, Lam TH, Laxmaiah Avula et al. NCD risk factor collaboration. Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population- based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants. Lancet 2017; 389: 37-55. (Impact factor 60.392) Citations 4521.
• NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Gomez LB, Ali MM….Avula Laxmaiah ..et al. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128•9 million children, adolescents, and adults. The Lancet. 2017 Dec 16; 390(10113):2627-2642. (Impact Factor 37.103) Citations 4521.
• Rajendran, Ananthan, Kodali Venkaiah, Varanasi Bhaskar, Thingnganing Longvah. Dietary Intake of Vitamin B6 Among Indian Rural Population. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism 71 (Suppl 2):1103.(Impact factor 3.355).
• Thingnganing Longvah, Rajendran, Ananthan, Prasad VSS, Paras Sharma, Avula Laxmaiah, Kodavalla Venkaiah. Convincing Decision Makers to Invest in High Quality Food Composition Tables Needed Along the Food System. January 2017; Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism 71 (Suppl 2):210. (Impact factor 3.355).
• NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Zhou B, Bentham J, Di Cesari M….. Avula Laxmaiah et al. Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants. International Journal of Epidemiology, Mar 19. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyy016. [Epub ahead of print] (Impact factor 7.707) Citations 73.
• Meshram I.I. Balakrishna N, Harikumar R, Mallikharjun Rao K, N. Arlappa, Laxmaiah A. Nutritional status of below 3 years children and Infant and Young Child feeding practices in India-Findings of National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) Survey. Annal Nutr Meta Suppl 2, 2017;7: 366 (Abstract No. 144/1022). (Impact factor 3.355)
• Arora, NK., Swaminathan, S., Mohapatra, A., Gopalan, H. S., Katoch, V. M., Bhan, M. K., Rasaily, R., Shekhar, C., Thavaraj, V., Roy, M., Das, M. K., Wazny, K., Kumar, R., Khera, A., Bhatla, N., Jain, V., Laxmaiah, A., Nair, M., Paul, V. K., Ramachandran, P. Research priorities in Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health & Nutrition for India: An Indian Council of Medical Research - INCLEN Initiative. The Indian journal of medical research, 145(5), 611–622. https://doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_139_17. (Impact factor 2.375) Citations 12.
• Meshram II, Hari Kumar R, Balakrishna N., Ch. Gal Reddy, Ravindranath M, Sree Ramakrishna K, Mallikharjun Rao K., Sharad Kumar S., Manohar G, Brahmam G.N.V, Laxmaiah A. Trends in nutrient intakes, nutritional status and correlates of undernutrition among rural children below 5 years of age: NNMB National survey. JPGM, 2017, 16; 84-91. (Impact factor 0.855) Citations 5.
• Prof Christopher J L Murray,………………..Avula Laxmaiah………….et al. Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet 2017; 390: 1084–1150. (Impact factor 60.392) Citations 624.
• GBD 2017 SDG Collaborators. Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet 2018; 392: 2091–138. (Impact factor 60.392) Citations 296.
• Madhari S. Radhika, Boddula Swetha, B. Naveen Kumar, N. Bala Krishna, and Avula Laxmaiah. Dietary and non-dietary determinants of nutritional status among adolescent girls and adult women in India. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1416 (2018) 5– 17 C 2018. (Impact factor 4.627) Citations 16.
• Meshram Indrapal Ishwarji , Kodavanti Mallikharjun Rao , Kakani Sree Ramakrishna , Rachkulla Hari Kumar, Kodavalla Venkaiah, Avula Laxmaiah. Care practices during pregnancy, infant feeding practices and their association with nutritional status of infants in Gujarat, India. INDIAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY HEALTH 2018; 30 (03): 202-212.
• Radhika MS, Swetha B, Naveen Kumar B, Bala Krishna N, Laxmaiah A: Dietary and non dietary determinants of nutritional status among adolescent girls and adult women in India. Annals of New York Academy of Sciences. 1416:5–17, 2018.
• Khandare AL, Hari Kumar R, Meshram II, Arlappa N, Laxmaiah A, Venkaiah K, Amrutha Rao P, Vakdevi V, Toteja GS: Current scenario of consumption of Lathyrus sativus and lathyrism in three districts of Chhattisgarh State, India. Toxicon. 150:228-234, 2018. (Impact factor 2.26) Citations 19.
• Sharma, S., Arlappa, N., Balakrishna, N. et al. Validation of APLS, Argall and Luscombe Formulae for Estimating Weight among Indian Children. Indian J Pediatr 86, 648–650 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/ s12098-019-02913-8. (Impact factor 1.508)
• R. Hari Kumar, Arjun Khandare, A. Laxmaiah, I. Meshram, N. Arlappa, Vakdevi Validandi, K. Venkaiah, P. Amrutha Rao, P.V. Sunu, V. Bhaskar & G. S. Toteja(2019) Prolonged consumption of grass pea (64 g/Cu/day) along with millets and other cereals causes no neurolathyrism, Nutritional Neuroscience, 22 Jul 2021. 24 (6), 459-466. (Impact factor 3.12) Citations 1. https://doi.org/10.1080/1028415X.2019.1642641
• NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC): Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults. NATURE 2019; 569:260-264. (Impact factor 42,778) Citations 407
• Meshram II, Mallikharjun Rao K , Bala Krishna N, Hari Kumar R, Arlappa N, Sreeramakrishna K, Laxmaiah A: Infant and young child feeding practices, socio-demographic factors and its association with nutritional status of below 3 years children in India-Findings of National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) survey. PHN 2019:22; 104-114. (Impact factor 3.245) Citations 22.
• Joe W, Rajpal S, Kim R, Laxmaiah A, Harikumar R, Arlappa N, Meshram II, Balakrishna N, Radhika MS, Swaminathan S, Subramanian SV: Association between Anthropometric-based and Food-based Nutritional Failure among Children: Evidence from NNMB Urban Nutrition Study 2015, India. Matern Child Nutr. 2019 Apr 15:e12830. (Impact factor 2.74) Citations 12.
• Christopher Murray, Charlton Callender, Xie Kulikoff, Serge Resnikoff, Vinay Srinivasan, Mehedi Hasan, Kalkidan Abate, Degu Abate, Solomon Abay…………Avula Laxmaiah………. et al. Population and fertility by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, Lancet 2018; 10; 392(10159):1995-2051. Citations 171.
• NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants, International Journal of Epidemiology, 2018, 872–883i. doi: 10.1093/ije/ dyy016.
• Upputuri Brahmaiah, Amruth Rao, Hemalatha R, Avula Laxmaiah. Pellagra: A Forgotten Entity. Clinical Dermatology Review.2019; 3 (2): 126-149.
• Soumya Swaminathan, Rajkumar Hemalatha, Anamika Pandey, Nicholas J Kassebaum, Avula Laxmaiah, Thingnganing Longvah et al. India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Malnutrition Collaborators. The burden of child and maternal malnutrition and trends in its indicators in the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2017. Published online September 18, 2019, The Lancet, Child Adolesc Health 2019; 3(12) 855-870. (Impact factor 11.288) Citations 128. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30273-1)30273-1.
• Swaminathan S, Hemalatha R, Pandey A, Kassebaum NJ, Laxmaiah A, Longvah T, Lodha R, Ramji S, Kumar GA, Afshin A, Gupta SS. Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2019; 3: 855–70 (The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (2019) 3 (12)(855–870),(S2352464219302731), (10.1016/S2352-4642 (19) 30273-1)). The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health. 2019;3(12):e16..
• Mariachiara Di Cesare, Maroje Sorić, Pascal Bovet, J Jaime Miranda, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Gretchen A Stevens, Avula Laxmaiah, Andre-Pascal Kengne and James Bentham. The epidemiological burden of obesity in childhood: a worldwide epidemic requiring urgent action. BMC Medicine (2019) 17:212 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1449-8. (Impact factor 6.953) Citations 278.
• India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative CGF Collaborators. Mapping of variations in child stunting, wasting and underweight within the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2000–2017 E Clinical Medicine (Published by the Lancet) Volume 22, (1-16) May 2020,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm. 2020.100317. (Impact factor 2.617) Citations 17.
• NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants. Lancet 2020 Nov 7;396(10261):1511-1524. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736 (20)31859-6. PMID:33160572; PMCID:PMC7658740. (Impact factor 79.321) Citations 85.
• India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Child Mortality Collaborators.Subnational mapping of under-5 and neonatal mortality trends in India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2000–17. The Lancet 2020. https://doi.org/ 10.1016/ S0140-6736(20)30471-2. May 12, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736 (20)30471-2. 395; 1640-58. (Impact factor 79.321) Citations 31.
• Roth GA, Mensah GA, Johnson CO, Addolorato G, Ammirati E, Baddour LM, Barengo NC, Beaton AZ, Benjamin EJ, Benziger CP, Bonny A..Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases Writing Group. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990-2019. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020 Dec 22;76(25):2982-3021. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.11.010. Erratum in: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021 Apr 20;77(15):1958-1959. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.02.039. PMID: 33309175; PMCID: PMC7755038.
• KE Wiens, PA Lindstedt, BF Blacker, KB Johnson, MM Baumann, ..Avula Laxmaiah, et al. Mapping geographical inequalities in oral rehydration therapy coverage in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17. The Lancet Global Health 8 (8), e1038-e1060.
• Taddei, C., Zhou, B., Bixby, …. Avula Laxmaiah… H. et al. Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol. Nature 582, 73–77 (June 2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2338-1. (Impact factor 49.962) Citations 47.
• Murhekar MV, … Bangar SD, Bansal AK, Bhat J, Chopra V, Das D… Laxmaiah A, et al. SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence in India, August-September, 2020: findings from the second nationwide household serosurvey. Lancet Glob Health. 2021 Mar;9(3):e257-e266. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30544-1. Epub 2021 Jan 27. PMID: 33515512; PMCID: PMC7906675. (Impact factor 26.763) Citations 101.
• Murhekar MV, Bhatnagar T, Selvaraju S, …….Laxmaiah A, Madhuka, Mahapatra A, Mitra A, et al. Prevalence of SARS-CoV- 2 infection in India: Findings from the national serosurvey, May-June 2020. Indian J Med Res 2020;152: 48-60. (Impact factor 1.56) Citations 139.
• NCD Rissk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Maria LC lurilli., Bin Zhou., James E Bennett, Rodrigo MCL………Avula Laxmaiah, Rio Grande et al. Heterogenous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight. eLife, 2021;10: E60060. Doi: http://doi.rg/10.7554/eLife.60060. (Impact factor 8.140) Citations 9.
• Murhekar MV, Bhatnagar T, Selvaraju S, …….Laxmaiah A, Madhuka, Mahapatra A, Mitra A, et al. Prevalence of SARS-CoV- 2 infection in India: Findings from the national serosurvey, December 2020. The Lancet Global Health. January 27, 2021; S2214-109x (20)30544-1: 1-10.
• MV. Murhekar...Avula Laxmaiah Dinesh Kumar Baradwaj.. et al. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 Sero-Prevalence Among General Population and Healthcare Workers in India, December 2020 - January 2021. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10.2139/ssrn.3797589. Int. J. Infect Dis. 2021; 108: 145-155 (Impact factor 3.623) Citations.
• M Sridevi and Avula Laxmaiah. Healthcare Financing and Under-5 Child Mortality among the BRICS Nations. Indian Journal of Human Development, 14(3) 507–517, 2020.
• Avula Laxmaiah. Magnitude, Monitoring & Preventive Strategies of Non-communicable Diseases in India. Health Action; APRIL 2021: pp11-12.
• Kachwaha, S., R.Avula, P.Menon, V. Sethi, W, Joe, and Avula Laxmaiah (2021). Improving maternal nutrition in India through integrated hot-cooked meal programs: a review of implementation evidence. POSHAN Report 14. New Delhi. IFPRI. https://poshan.ifpri.info/2021/05/25/improving-maternal-nutrition-in-india-through-integrated-hot-cooked-meal-programs-a-review-of-implementation-evidence/#:~:text= Figure% 201.,strengthen% 20insights%20on%20the%20program.
• Reddy GB, Pullakhandam R, Ghosh S, Boiroju NK, Tattari S, Laxmaiah A, Hemalatha R, Kapil U, Sachdev HS, Kurpad AV. Vitamin A deficiency among children younger than 5 y in India: an analysis of national data sets to reflect on the need for vitamin A supplementation. Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 Apr 6;113(4):939-947. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqaa314. PMID: 33330941. (Impact factor 7.045) Citations 13.
• Mathur P, Kulothungan V, Leburu S, Krishnan A, Chaturvedi HK, Salve HR, Amarchand R, Nongkynrih B, Kumar PG, K S VU, Ramakrishnan L, Laxmaiah A, Boruah M, Kumar S, Patro BK, Raghav PR, Rajkumar P, Sarma PS, Sharma R, Tambe M, Thankappan KR, Arlappa N, Mahanta TG, Joshi RP, Rustagi N, Gupta S, Behera BK, Shelke SC, Galhotra A, Bhuyan PJ, Pakhare AP, Kumar D, Topno RK, Gupta MK, Trivedi AV, Garg S. National noncommunicable disease monitoring survey (NNMS) in India: Estimating risk factor prevalence in adult population. PLoS One. 2021 Mar 2;16(3):e0246712. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246712. PMID: 33651825; PMCID: PMC7924800. (Impact factor 3.24) Citations 5.
• Anand Krishnan, Prashant Mathur, Vaitheeswaran Kulothungan, Harshal Ramesh Salve, Sravya Leburu, Ritvik Amarchand, Baridalyne Nongkynrih, Himanshu Kumar Chaturvedi, P. Ganeshkumar, Vinay Urs KS, Avula Laxmaiah, … et al. Preparedness of primary and secondary health facilities in India to address major noncommunicable diseases: results of a National Noncommunicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS). BMC Health Services Research (2021)21:757. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06530-0. (Impact factor 2.512).
• Reddy GB, Shalini T, Ghosh S, Pullakhandam R, Kumar BN, Kulkarni B, Laxmaiah A, Kapil U, Deb S, Hemalatha R, Kurpad AV. Prevalence of vitamin A deficiency and dietary inadequacy in Indian school-age children and adolescents. European Journal of Nutrition. 2021 Jul 12:1-3.
• Reddy GB, Pullakhandam R, Ghosh S, Boiroju N, Tattari S, Laxmaiah A, Hemalatha R, Kapil U, Sachdev HS, Kurpad AV. Reply to J Sheftel et al. and N Arlappa. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2021 Jun;113(6):1709-11.
• Reddy GB, Pullakhandam R, Ghosh S, Boiroju NK, Tattari S, Laxmaiah A, Hemalatha R, Kapil U, Sachdev HS, Kurpad AV. Reply to A Hasman et al. The American journal of clinical nutrition. 2021 Jul;114(1):391-2.
• S Kachwaha, R Avula, P Menon, V Sethi, W Joe, A Laxmaiah. Improving maternal nutrition in India through integrated hot-cooked meal programs: A review of implementation evidence. Intl Food Policy Res Inst.
• MV Murhekar, T Bhatnagar, JWV Thangaraj, V Saravanakumar, ...Avula Lxmaiah… et al. Seroprevalence of IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among the general population and healthcare workers in India, June–July 2021: A population-based cross-sectional study. PLoS medicine 18 (12), e1003877.
• SharvariPatwardhan, Rati Kapoor, Samuel Scott, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Sylvie Chamois, S.K. Singh, L. K. Dwivedi, Sarang Pedgaonkar, ParulPuri, Alka Chauhan, Avula Laxmaiah,PurnimaMenon. Trends and patterns in consumption of foods among Indian adults: Insights from National Family Health Surveys, 2005-06 to 2019-21. POSHAN (IFPRI). No.9: 2022. www.ifpri.org.
• Prathiksha Giridharan, Sriram Selvaraju, Raghuram Rao, Kiran Rade,Kannan Thiruvengadam, Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Shanta Dutta, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah et al. Recurrence of pulmonary tuberculosis in India: Findings from the 2019–2021 nationwide community-based TB prevalence survey, PLOS ONE, 2023; 0294254, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.
• Mathur P, Kulothungan V, Leburu S, Krishnan A, Chaturvedi HK, Salve HR, Amarchand R, Nongkynrih B, Ganeshkumar P, KS VU, Laxmaiah A. Baseline risk factor prevalence among adolescents aged 15–17 years old: findings from National Non-communicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS) of India. BMJ open. 2021 Jun 1;11(6):e044066.
• Laxmaiah A, Rao MN, Arlappa N, Babu J, Kumar UP, Singh P, Sharma D, Anumalla MV, Kumar ST, Sabarinathan R, Kumar SM. SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in the city of Hyderabad, India in early 2021. medRxiv. 2021 Jan 1.
• Prashant Mathur, Vaitheeswaran Kulothungan, Sravya Leburu, Anand Krishnan, Himanshu Kumar Chaturvedi, Ramesh Salve, Ritvik Amarchand, Baridalyne Nongkynrih, P Ganesh, Kumar Id, Vinay Urs, Lakshmy Ramakrishnan, Avula Laxmaiah. National noncommunicable disease monitoring survey (NNMS) in India: Estimating risk factor prevalence in adult population. PLOSONE|https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246712 March2, 2021.
• Prashant Mathur, Vaitheeswaran Kulothungan, Sravya Leburu, Anand Krishnan, Himanshu Kumar Chaturvedi, Harshal Ramesh Salve, Ritvik Amarchand, Baridalyne Nongkynrih, Parasuraman Ganeshkumar, Vinay Urs K S, Avula Laxmaiah et al. Baseline risk factor prevalence among adolescents aged 15–17 years old: findings from National Non-communicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS) of India, BMJ Open, 2021; 11: e0444066.doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-0044066.
• Avula Laxmaiah, Nalam Madhusudhan Rao, N Arlappa, Jagjeevan Babu, P Uday Kumar , Priya Singh , Deepak Sharma et al. SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in the city of Hyderabad, India in early 2021, IJID Reg. 2022 Mar; 2: 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ijregi.2021.10.009.
• V Miller, J Reedy, F Cudhea, J Zhang, P Shi, J Erndt-Marino, J Coates…Avula Laxmaiah…et al. Global, regional, and national consumption of animal-source foods between 1990 and 2018: findings from the Global Dietary Database. The Lancet Planetary Health 6 (3), e243-e250.
• P Giridharan, S Selvaraju, R Rao, K Rade, K Thiruvengadam, S Asthana..Avula Laxmaiah.. et al. Recurrence of pulmonary tuberculosis in India: Findings from the 2019–2021 nationwide community-based TB prevalence survey. Plos one 18 (12), e0294254.
• S Selvaraju, B Velayutham, R Rao, K Rade, K Thiruvengadam, S Asthana,..Avula Laxmaiah… et al. Trends and patterns in consumption of foods among Indian adults: Insights from National Family Health Surveys, 2005-06 to 2019-21. Journal of Infection and Public Health 16 (12), 2058-2065.
• Sharvari Patwardhan, Rati Kapoor, Samuel Scott, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Sylvie Chamois, SK Singh, LK Dwivedi, Sarang Pedgaonkar, Parul Puri, Alka Chauhan, Avula Laxmaiah, Purnima Menon. Trends and patterns in consumption of foods among Indian adults: Insights from National Family Health Surveys, 2005-06 to 2019-21. Intl Food Policy Res Inst 2023.
• Meghan O’Hearn, Laura Lara-Castor, Frederick Cudhea1, Victoria Miller, Julia Reedy, Peilin Shi1, Jianyi Zhang1, John B. Wong, Christina D. Economos, Renata Micha, Dariush Mozaffarian & Global Dietary Database*. Incident type 2 diabetes attributable to suboptimal diet in 184 countries. Nat Med., 2023 Apr;29(4): 982-995. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02278-8. Epub 2023 Apr 17.
• NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Global variation in diabetes diagnosis and prevalence based on fasting glucose and HbA1c. Nat Med , 2023; 29: 2885–2901. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02610-2.
• Sriram Selvaraju, Banurekha Velayutham, Raghuram Rao b, Kiran Rade, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Shantha Dutta, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Arshad Kalliath, Avula Laxmaiah et al Prevalence and factors associated with tuberculosis infection in India. Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2023; 16: 2058–2065.
• GBD Anaemia 2021 Collaborators. Prevalence, years lived with disability, and trends in anaemia burden by severity and cause, 1990–2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, Lancet Haematol 2023; 10 (9): e713-e734. https://doi.org/10.1016/ S2352-3026(23)00160-6.
• Miller, V., Webb, P., Cudhea, F. et al. Children’s and adolescents’ rising animal-source food intakes in 1990–2018 were impacted by age, region, parental education and urbanicity. Nat Food 4, 305–319 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00731-y.
• Indrapal I. Meshram *, Balakrishna Nagalla, Mallikharjun Rao Kodavanti, Laxmaiah Avula, Brahmam Ginnela Narsimhachary Veera. Overweight/obesity, pre-diabetes, diabetes and its association with hypertension and other factors among rural adults (≥18 years) in India, Indian Heart Journal, 2024; 76:182–191.
• Wineman, A., Zanello, G., Degefaw, D.M. et al. A call to action for transformation towards nutritious food systems. Nat Food 5, 2–3 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00896-6
• NCD Risk Collaboration. 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. Lancet 2024: 403: 1027–50. doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(23)02750-2.
• Sarita Srivastava, Anju Bisht, Avula Laxmaiah, and Seetha Anitha (2024). Global Health Challenges: Nutrition and Management (First Edition). CRC Press. DOI: 10-1201/9871003354024.
• Indrapal Ishwar Meshram, Mallikharjun Rao Kodavanti, Sreerama Krishna K, Avula Laxmaiah. Regional Variation in the Prevalence of Undernutrition and its Correlates Among Under Five Year Children in North India. Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2024; 49 (2): 323-333.
• Global Burden of Collaboration. Global, regional, and national progress towards the 2030 global nutrition targets and forecasts to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, The Lancet 2024; 404: 2543–83.
• Abdul Jaleel, SuryaGoud S. Chukkala, Raja Sriswan, Hrusikesh Panda, Pooja Singnale, Indrapal I. Meshram, Laxmaiah Avula, G. N. Hariharan, Nimmathota Arlappa and SubbaRao M. Gavaravarapu . Cultivating nutrition: exploring participants’ perspectives on nutrition gardens and nutrition education program in rural Tamil Nadu and Odisha, India. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 2025: 9:1502711. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1502711.
• Santu Ghosh, A Laxmaiah, Giriraj Chandak, Indrapal Meshram, Rajiva Raman, Shantanu Sengupta, Chittaranjan Yajnik, Anura Kurpad, Harshpal Sachdev. Anaemia and iron deficiency in India: a venous blood-based survey of adolescents, adults, and the elderly in eight states. Eur J Clin Nutr., 2025 May; 79(5): 443-451. doi: 10.1038/s41430-024-01559-w. Epub 2025 Jan 8.
• Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, Chethrapilly Purushothaman Girish Kumar, Velusamy Saravanakumar, Thiyagarajan Karunakaran…., Avula Laxmaiah, Seroprevalence of IgG antibodies against hepatitis-A infection among individuals aged 6–30 years in India, 2021: a nationwide population-based cross-sectional study, The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia 2025; 41:100669; https: //doi.org/10.1016/j.lansea. 2025.100669.
• Meshram, I.I., Balakrishna, N., Bhaskar, V. et al. Trends in body mass index, nutrient intake and nutritional status of rural adults in India: National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau survey findings (1975–2012). BMC Public Health 25, 2929 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23731-y
• Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Vasudevan Sudha, Kuzhandaivelu Abirami, Rajagopal Gayathri, Valangaiman Sriram Manasa, Mohan Deepa, Rajendra Pradeepa, Ranjit Unnikrishnan, Shashank Joshi, Banshi Saboo, Arvind Gupta, Prashant P. Joshi, Prabha Adhikari, Puthiyaveettil Kottayam Jabbar, Sunil M. Jain, Subhankar Chowdhury, Anil J. Purty, Saroj Kumar Tripathy, Sarita Behera, Jagdish Mahanta, Avula Laxmaiah et al. Dietary profiles and associated metabolic risk factors in India from the ICMR–INDIAB survey-21, nature medicine, 2025; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03949-4.
• II Meshram, PV Sunu, K Sreeramakrishna, Stephen GL, D Narasimhulu, Shantanu Sengupta, Anura Kurpad, Rajiva Raman, Chittaranjan Yajnik, Harshpal Singh Sachdev, A Laxmaiah, Chandak GR. Cardiometabolic Risk factors among adults in rural, urban, and urban slum population in eight states of India, Indian Heart J, 2025; S0019-4832(25)00124-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ihj.2025.05.014.
• Anuj Kumar Pandey, Anju Pradhan Sinha, Ramu Rawat, Ranadip Chowdhury, Shivaprasad S Goudar, Jitender Nagpal, Shrey Desai, Avula Laxmaiah et al. PRAYAS: Cohort profile for Pooled Research and Analysis for Yielding Anemia-free Solutions in India. medRxiv, 2025, 2025.08. 07.25333266.
• Mahesh Kumar Mummadi, Jag Jeevan Babu Geddam, Karthikeyan Ramanujam, Sridevi Manchala, Raghavendra Pandurangi, Venkat Rajireddy Garlapati, Sreenu Pagidoju, Laxmaiah Avula. Role of Maternal Body Composition and Associated Factors in the Nutritional Status of Under-Five Children of South India: Findings From the Comprehensive National Nutritional and Health Survey. Cureus, 2025; DOI: 10.7759/cureus.95396.
• Anju Sinha, Ramu Rawat, Shivaprasad S Goudar, Jitender Nagpal, Shrey Desai, Avula Laxmaiah et al. PRAYAS: Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis (IPD-MA) database for Pooled Research and Analysis for Yielding Anemia-free Solutions in India. Frontiers in Public Health, Registration: OSF-https://doi.org/10.17605/ OSF.IO/6YRXF.

• Laxmaiah. Nutritional Epidemiology for Tomorrow’s Dieticians (2008). Edited by Dr. K. Bhaskarachary, Dr.V.Sudershan and Dr.GM.Subba Rao, published by the Indian Dietetic Association (IDA), Hyderabad.
• Kamala Krishnaswamy and Avula Laxmaiah (2011). Nutrition related non-communicable chronic disorders (First Edition), WPI Publishing. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201 /b18288-39/nutrition-related-non-communicable-chronic-disorders-kamala-krishnaswamy-avula-laxmaiah.
• N. Pralhad Rao and A. Laxmaiah. National Nutrition Programmes, Text Book of Human Nutrition, edited by Dr. M. Bamji, Kamala Krishnaswamy and Dr. GNV. Brahmam, Revised and Reprinted in 2009.
• A. Laxmaiah. Developed Video Training Module on ‘Nutrition methods (2011)’ for orientation of functionaries, who are working in the Institutions of health and nutrition, supported and coordinated by Indian Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Vengal Rao Nagar, Hyderabad.
• A. Laxmaiah et al. Developed standards on ‘Food and Nutrition rations’ for the relief population in disasters (2011), supported and coordinated by National Disaster Management Authority, Ministry of Defense, Government of India.
• Laxmaiah A., Balakrishna N., Mallkharjuna Rao K and Ravindranath M. Prevalence and determinants of Overweight and Obesity among urban Adolescents in Andhra Pradesh. Child’s Development in India (2015)’. etd., by Dr. Vijayanthimala, Dr.A.Laxmaiah, Dr.K.Mallikharjuna Rao and Vandana Mallempati, Published by ANMOUL PUBLICATIONS PVT. LTD., New Delhi.
• Mallkharjuna Rao K., I.I.Meshram, K.Venkaiah and Laxmaiah A. Ante Natal Care and Infant & Young Child Feeding Practices Among the tribes of Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh. Child’s Development in India (2015)’. etd., by Dr. Vijayanthimala, Dr.A.Laxmaiah, Dr.K.Mallikharjuna Rao and Vandana Mallempati, Published by ANMOUL PUBLICATIONS PVT. LTD., New Delhi.
• Mallkharjuna Rao K., Venkaiah K., Laxmaiah A., N.Arlappa, M.S.Radhika, Ch.Galreddy and G.N.V Brahmam. Levels of Undernutrition Among Children of below five years of Age in Koraput district of Odisha, India. Child’s Development in India (2015)’. etd., by Dr. Vijayanthimala, Dr.A.Laxmaiah, Dr.K.Mallikharjuna Rao and Vandana Mallempati, Published by ANMOUL PUBLICATIONS PVT. LTD., New Delhi.
• Meshram I I., Mallkharjuna Rao K., Galreddy Ch., Ravindranath M., Sharad Kumar, Sree Ramakrishna K., Harikumar R., Venkaiah K and Laxmaiah A. Ante Natal Care, Delivery and Infant Feeding Practices and Their Association with undernutrition Among Infants in Urban ICDS Areas of Gujarat, India. Child’s Development in India (2015)’. etd., by Dr. Vijayanthimala, Dr.A.Laxmaiah, Dr.K.Mallikharjuna Rao and Vandana Mallempati, Published by ANMOUL PUBLICATIONS PVT. LTD., New Delhi.
• Mallikahrjun Rao K, Meshram II, Venkaiah K, Laxmaiah A. Nutritional status of under 5 year children in the districts of Madhya Pradesh. Page 259-70. In Anthropology of Traditional Indian Foods Health by Vijeyendra BR, Raviprasad BV, Khatua N. Aayu publication 2017.
• Avula Laxmaiah, M.S.Radhika, Nagalla Balakrishna. Fighting Hunger Among Children: The Case of Balamrutham in Telangana, ICMR Coffee Table book.
• Sarita Srivastava, Anju Bisht, Avula Laxmaiah, Anitha Seetha (2024). Global Health Challenges: Nutrition and Management (First Edition) - CRC Press. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9781003354024 /global-health-challenges-sarita-srivastava-anju-bisht-avula-laxmaiah-anitha-seetha.

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