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Consumers’ knowledge of food label information: an exploratory investigation in Potchefstroom, South Africa
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)Objective To determine the ability of consumers to: locate and manipulate food label information; assess the accuracy of nutrient content claims and which health/nutrient claims are allowed; and identify symbols on food ... -
Consumers’ snack choices: current factors contributing to obesity
(Emerald, 2019)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to indicate the need for and create an insightful understanding of the current factors contributing to consumer’s obesity levels due to their snack choices. Design/methodology/app ... -
Consumers’ snack choices: current factors contributing to obesity
(Emerald, 2018)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to indicate the need for and create an insightful understanding of the current factors contributing to consumer’s obesity levels due to their snack choices. Design/methodology/approach ... -
Consumption of traditional and indigenous foods and their contribution to nutrient intake among children and women in Botswana
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)In Botswana, traditional diets are gradually being replaced by westernized diets high in energy-dense and nutrient- poor, while micro nutrient deficiencies among the population remain. We determined the consumption of ... -
Contribution of commercial infant products and fortified staple foods to nutrient intake at ages 6, 12, and 18 months in a cohort of children from a low socio-economic community in South Africa.
(Wiley, 2019)Fortification of two staple foods, maize meal and wheat flour (bread), is mandatory, and commercial infant products are widely available in South Africa. Using a 24 ‐ hr recall, we determined the contribution of these ... -
The contribution of the C-824T tyrosine hydroxylase polymorphism to the prevalence of hypertension in a South African cohort: the SABPA study
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)The C-824T single nucleotide polymorphism in the promoter region of the tyrosine hydroxylase gene has been associated with hypertension. It is well documented that African South Africans exhibit a higher prevalence of ... -
Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants
(Oxford Univ Press, 2018)Background Change in the prevalence of raised blood pressure could be due to both shifts in the entire distribution of blood pressure (representing the combined effects of public health interventions and secular trends) ... -
Conventional and behavioral risk factors explain differences in sub-clinical vascular disease between black and Caucasian South Africans: the SABPA study
(Elsevier, 2011)Conventional and behavioral risk factors explain differences in sub-clinical vascular disease between black and Caucasian South Africans: The SABPA study Objectives: There is an emerging burden of cardiovascular disease ... -
Copeptin relates to a fatty liver and measures of obesity in a South African population with mixed ethnicities
(Springer, 2019)Purpose Elevated copeptin, a vasopressin marker, is linked to metabolic disease, and obese rats with low-vasopressin concentration had a decreased risk of liver steatosis. We here investigated the association between ... -
Coping and metabolic syndrome indicators in urban black South African men: the SABPA study
(Clinics Cardiv Publishing, 2010)Urbanisation is associated with obesity, hypertension anddevelopment of the metabolic syndrome (MS). We aimed toassess the use of different coping styles and their influenceon increases in MS indicators and target end-organ ... -
Coping facilitated troponin T increases and hypo-responsivity in the copeptin-HPA-axis during acute mental stress in a black cohort: the SABPA study
(Elsevier, 2019)Background Defensive coping (DefS) was associated with a vulnerable cardiovascular profile in blacks. The copeptin/vasopressin system is a manifestation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-axis activity and may act as an ... -
Coping self-efficacy as mediator in the dynamics of psychological well-being in various contexts
(Elliott & Fitzpatrick, 2011)The aim of this study was to explore whether coping self-efficacy mediates between various distress related variables on the one hand (symptoms of stress and depression), and the degree of psycho-social well-being as ... -
Coping with drought: Indigenous knowledge application in rural South Africa
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Coping with HIV-related stigma in five African countries
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Coping with HIV/AIDS stigma by women who lost their partners to AIDS in the North West Province
(Zhengzhou University, 2011)The aim of this article is to explore and describe how women who lost their partners to the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the North West Province, cope with the stigma of the disease. A phenomenological ... -
Coping with urbanization: a cardiometabolic risk? The THUSA study
(Elsevier, 2008)An assessment of specific coping styles in rural-urban Africans is done to evaluate its contribution as cardiometabolic risk factor. In total, 608 apparently healthy Africans were included in a cross-sectional comparative ... -
Cornell product relates to albuminuria in hypertensive black adults independently of blood pressure: the SABPA study
(Elsevier, 2015)Evidence of the relationship between left ventricular hypertrophy and urinary albumin excretion is contradictory and limited in black adults in whom hypertensive heart disease is common. We aimed to investigate the ... -
Correcting for intra-individual variability in sodium excretion in spot urine samples does not improve the ability to predict 24 h urinary sodium excretion
(MDPI, 2020)Given a global focus on salt reduction efforts to reduce cardiovascular risk, it is important to obtain accurate measures of salt intake on a population level. This study determined firstly whether adjustment for ... -
Correction to: Heart rate variability, the dynamic nature of the retinal microvasculature and cardiac stress: providing insight into the brain–retina–heart link: the SABPA study
(Springer, 2020)Correction to: Eye https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-019-0515-y Since the online publication of this article, the authors have noticed that the conclusion to the abstract contains an error. The correct abstract conclusion ...