Urgency for South Africa to prioritise cardiovascular disease management
| dc.contributor.author | Schutte, Aletta E. | |
| dc.contributor.researchID | 10922180 - Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-28T08:15:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-28T08:15:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Over the past few decades, the burden of high blood pressure has shifted from high-income to low-income and middle-income countries, including sub-Saharan Africa.1 Raised blood pressure is accompanied by rising obesity trends, with 68% of South African women and 31% of men being overweight or obese.2 In South Africa, the age-standardised death rates for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are now higher than those of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis combined,3,4 with cardiovascular disease being the leading category of NCDs | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Schutte, A.E. 2019. Urgency for South Africa to prioritise cardiovascular disease management. Lancet global health, 7(2): e177-e178. [https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30476-5] | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2214-109X (Online) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/31868 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)30476-5/fulltext | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30476-5 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
| dc.title | Urgency for South Africa to prioritise cardiovascular disease management | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |