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Multidissiplinêre vennootskappe in gemeenskapseie woordkunsprojekte – ’n Gevallestudie
(OASIS, 2013)
Multidisciplinary partnerships in community-specific writing or storytelling projects – A
case study. Partnerships are used as strategy in various sectors of society, especially in order
to reach goals which are unattainable ...
A decade of nutrition research in Africa: assessment of the evidence base and academic collaboration
(Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Objective: Malnutrition in Africa has not improved compared with other regions in the world. Investment in the build–up of a strong African research workforce is essential to provide contextual solutions to the nutritional ...
The association of 25(OH)D with blood pressure, pulse pressure and carotid–radial pulse wave velocity in African women
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
High susceptibility of the African population to develop cardiovascular disease obliges us to investigate possible
contributing risk factors. Our aim was to determine whether low 25(OH)D status is associated with increased ...
Comparative assessment of absolute cardiovascular disease risk characterization from non-laboratory-based risk assessment in South African populations
(BioMed Central, 2013)
Background: All rigorous primary cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention guidelines recommend absolute CVD risk scores to identify high- and low-risk patients, but laboratory testing can be impractical in low- and middle-income ...
Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study: baseline characteristics of the household sample and comparative analyses with national data in 17 countries
(Elsevier, 2013)
Background: The PURE study was established to investigate associations between social, behavioural, genetic, and
environmental factors and cardiovascular diseases in 17 countries. In this analysis we compare the age, sex, ...
Association of alcohol consumption with specific biomarkers: a cross-sectional study in South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Alcohol consumption plays an important role in the health transition associated with urbanization in developing countries. Thus, reliable tools for assessing alcohol intake levels are necessary. We compared two biological ...
A review of dietary surveys in the adult South African population from 2000 to 2015
(Mdpi Ag, 2015)
One serious concern of health policymakers in South Africa is the fact that there is no national data on the dietary intake of adult South Africans. The only national "dietary study was done in children in 1999. Hence, it ...
Indigenous and traditional plants: South African parents’ knowledge, perceptions and uses and their children’s sensory acceptance
(BioMed Central, 2013)
Background: The dietary shift from indigenous and traditional plants (ITPs) to cash crops and exotic plant food
sources increases the risk of malnutrition and other nutrition-related non-communicable diseases, especially ...
Association of HIV and ART with cardiometabolic traits in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
Background: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest burden of HIV in the
world and a rising prevalence of cardiometabolic disease; however,
the interrelationship between HIV, antiretroviral therapy (ART) and
cardiometabolic ...
Fibrinogen concentration and its role in CVD risk in black South Africans – effect of urbanisationtion
(Schattauer, 2011)
The aim of this study was to investigate correlates of fibrinogen concentration in black South Africans, as well as its association with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and whether urbanisation influences this association. ...