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May Measurement Month 2018: a pragmatic global screening campaign to raise awareness of blood pressure by the International Society of Hypertension

Beaney, Thomas; Kruger, Ruan; Schutte, Aletta E.; Burrell, Louise M.; Castillo, Rafael R. (Oxford Univ Press, 2019)

Aims Raised blood pressure (BP) is the biggest contributor to mortality and disease burden worldwide and fewer than half of those with hypertension are aware of it. May Measurement Month (MMM) is a global campaign set up ...

The African prospective study on the early detection and identification of cardiovascular disease and hypertension (African-PREDICT): design, recruitment and initial examination

Schutte, Aletta E.; Uys, Aletta S.; Burger, Adele; Mels, Catharina M.C.; Kruger, Ruan; Smith, Wayne; Fourie, Carla M.T.; Botha, Shani; Lammertyn, Leandi; Van Rooyen, Johannes M.; Gafane-Matemane, Lebo F.; Mokwatsi, Gontse G.; Breet, Yolandi; Kruger, H. Salome; Van Zyl, Tertia; Pieters, Marlien; Zandberg, Lizelle; Louw, Roan; Moss, Sarah J.; Huisman, Hugo W. (Sage, 2019)

Background: Globally hypertension is stabilising, but in sub-Saharan Africa the incidence of hypertension remains on an increase. Although this might be attributed to poor healthcare and ineffective antihypertensive ...

Correction: Morning blood pressure surge in young black and white adults: the African-PREDICT study. Journal of Human Hypertension 32 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41371-018-0089-3

Mokwatsi, Gontse Gratitude; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Mels, Catharina Martha Cornelia; Kruger, Ruan (Springer, 2019)

Proteomics insights on how physical inactivity can influence cardiovascular health

Kruger, Ruan (Sage, 2019)

The World Health Organization (WHO) has set a global target to reduce physical inactivity by 10% by 2025,1 but according to a pooled analysis of 1.9 million participants during 2001 to 2016, the progress of the WHO target ...

Corrigendum to: May Measurement Month 2018: a pragmatic global screening campaign to raise awareness of blood pressure by the International Society of Hypertension