Browsing by Subject "Self-reported alcohol intake"

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Alcohol intake, hypertension development and mortality in black South Africans

Zatu, Mandlenkosi C.; Van Rooyen, Johannes M.; Kruger, Annamarie; Schutte, Aletta E. (Sage Publishing, 2016)

Background: Excessive alcohol intake is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and predicts cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. We determined which alcohol marker (self-reported alcohol intake, gamma-glutamy ...
Self-reported alcohol intake is a better estimate of 5-year change in blood pressure than biochemical markers in low resource settings: the PURE study

Zatu, Mandlenkosi C.; Van Rooyen, Johannes M.; Loots, Du Toit; Wentzel-Viljoen, Edelweiss; Greeff, Minrie; Schutte, Aletta E. (Wolters Kluwer, 2014)

Background: Despite criticism of self-reported alcohol intake, it is a valuable tool to screen for alcohol abuse as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. We aimed to compare various self-reported estimates of alcohol ...