Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences by Subject "Urbanization"

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    • Coping with urbanization: a cardiometabolic risk? The THUSA study 

      Malan, Leoné; Malan, Nicolaas T.; Wissing, Maria P.; Seedat, Yackoob K. (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 ...

    • Leveraging the urban-rural divide for epigenetic research 

      Cronjé, Héléne T.; Nienaber-Rousseau, Cornelie; Pieters, Marlien; Elliott, Hannah R. (Future Medicine, 2020)
      Urbanization coincides with a complex change in environmental exposure and a rapid increase in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Epigenetics, including DNA methylation (DNAm), is thought to mediate part of the association ...

    • Socio-demographic and lifestyle factors predict 5-year changes in adiposity among a group of black South African adults 

      Nienaber-Rousseau, Cornelie; Sotunde, Olusola F.; Ukegbu, Patricia O.; Myburgh, P. Hermanus; Wright, Hattie H.; Havemann-Nel, Lize; Kruger, H. Salome; Moss, Sarah J.; Kruger, Iolanthé M. (MDPI, 2017)
      The rising prevalence of obesity and excessive adiposity are global public health concerns. Understanding determinants of changes in adiposity over time is critical for informing effective evidence-based prevention or ...