Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences@PUK by Subject "cardiovascular disease"

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Iron status and cardiovascular disease risk in black South African women: the PURE study

Kruger, Annamarie; Kruger, Herculina Salome; Mamabolo, Ramoteme Lesley; Pisa, Pedro; Vorster, Hester Hendrina; Aderibigbe, O.R. (MedPharm Publishers, 2011)

Objective: To examine the associations between measures of iron status and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in South African women. Method: In a cross-sectional study, demographic information and health history ...
The nutrition transition in Africa: can it be steered into a more positive direction?

Kruger, Annamarie; Margetts, Barrie Maxwell; Vorster, Hester Hendrina (MDPI (Molecular Diversity Preservation International), 2011)

The objective of this narrative review is to examine the nutrition transition and its consequences when populations in Africa modernize as a result of socio-economic development, urbanization, and acculturation. The focus ...
Within-subject blood pressure level – not variability – predicts fatal and nonfatal outcomes in a general population

Asayama, K. E. I.; Jacobs, Lotte; Schutte, Rudolph; Staessen, Jan; Gu, Yu-Mei; Jin, Yu (American Heart Association, 2012)

To assess the prognostic significance of blood pressure (BP) variability, we followed health outcomes in a family-based random population sample representative of the general population (n=2944; mean age: 44.9 years; 50.7% ...