Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences by Author "Zec, Manja"
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Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids are associated with blood pressure and hypertension over 10-years in black South African adults undergoing nutritional transition
Zec, Manja; Schutte, Aletta E.; Ricci, Cristian; Baumgartner, Jeannine; Kruger, Iolanthé M.; Smuts, Cornelius M. (MDPI, 2019)Nutritional transition in Africa is linked with increased blood pressure (BP). We examined 10-year fatty acid status and longitudinal associations between individual long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), BP and ... -
Plasma phospholipid fatty acid patterns are associated with adiposity and the metabolic syndrome in black South Africans: a cross-sectional study
Ojwang, Alice Achieng; Kruger, Herculina Salome; Zec, Manja; Ricci, Cristian; Pieters, Marlien; Kruger, Iolanthé Marike; Wentzel-Viljoen, Edelweiss; Smuts, Cornelius Mattheus (Clinics Cardive Publishing, 2019)Background: Diets rich in n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and saturated fatty acids (SFA) have been associated with increased risk of obesity and the metabolic syndrome (MetS), but the evidence is inconsistent, ... -
Type of dietary fat intakes in relation to all-cause and cause-specific mortality in US adults: an iso-energetic substitution analysis from the American National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey linked to the US mortality registry
Ricci, Cristian; Baumgartner, Jeannine; Zec, Manja; Kruger, Herculina Salome; Smuts, Cornelius M. (Cambridge Univ Press, 2018)Accumulating evidence indicates that saturated fat intake is related to mortality risk increase, whereas unsaturated fat intake is associated with reduced mortality risk. The aim of the present study was to estimate the ...