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Added sugar intake in South Africa: findings from the Adult Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology cohort study1-4
(American Society for Nutrition (ASN), 2014)
Background: Obesity and other noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors are increasing in low- and middle-income countries. There are few data on the association between increased added sugar intake and NCD risk in these ...
Associations of suPAR with lifestyle and cardiometabolic risk factors
(Wiley, 2014)
Background: Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR), a novel indicator of low-grade inflammation, is associated with cardiovascular disease and mortality in the general population, while an unhealthy ...
Cardiometabolic changes in treated versus never treated HIV-infected Black South Africans: the PURE study
(Elsevier, 2014)
Background
The use of antiretroviral treatment is known to be accompanied by several negative health outcomes and may negatively affect a country such as South Africa, which is the most burdened by the human immunodeficiency ...
Cardiovascular risk and events in 17 low-, middle-, and high-income countries
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2014)
BACKGROUND
More than 80% of deaths from cardiovascular disease are estimated to occur in
low-income and middle-income countries, but the reasons are unknown. ...