Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences by Subject "risk factors"
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Complicated grief in the South African context: a social work perspective
(Oxford University Press, 2013)Social work in South Africa in the last decade has been shaped by the White Paper for SocialWelfare (Ministry forWelfare and Population Development, 1997) which promotes developmental social services and constitutes both ... -
Evaluation of waist-to-height ratio to predict 5 year cardiometabolic risk in sub-Saharan African adults
(Open Access, 2014)Background and aims Simple, low-cost central obesity measures may help identify individuals with increased cardiometabolic disease risk, although it is unclear which measures perform best in African adults. We aimed to: ... -
Home blood pressure variability as cardiovascular risk factor in the population of Ohasama
(American Heart Association (AHA), 2013)Blood pressure variability based on office measurement predicts outcome in selected patients. We explored whether novel indices of blood pressure variability derived from the self-measured home blood pressure predicted outcome ... -
Impact of age on the importance of systolic and diastolic blood pressures for stroke risk: the monica, risk, genetics, archiving, and monograph (MORGAM) project Risk: The MOnica, Risk, Genetics, Archiving, and Monograph (MORGAM) Project
(American Heart Association, 2012)This study investigates age-related shifts in the relative importance of systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressures as predictors of stroke and whether these relations are influenced by other cardiovascular risk ... -
What is the nutritional status of children of obese mothers in South Africa?
(Elsevier, 2011)Objective To evaluate the anthropometric status of children of obese (body mass index [BMI] ≥30 kg/m2) mothers who participated during the 2005 National Food Consumption Study. Methods The survey population consisted ... -
Within-subject blood pressure level – not variability – predicts fatal and nonfatal outcomes in a general population
(American Heart Association, 2012)To assess the prognostic significance of blood pressure (BP) variability, we followed health outcomes in a family-based random population sample representative of the general population (n=2944; mean age: 44.9 years; 50.7% ...