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Overweight impairs efficacy of iron supplementation in iron-deficient South African children: a randomized controlled intervention
(Nature Publishing Group, 2013)
BACKGROUND: Many countries in the nutrition transition have high rates of iron deficiency (ID) and overweight (OW). ID is more
common in OW children; this may be due to adiposity-related inflammation reducing iron ...
Defensive coping facilitates higher blood pressure and early sub–clinical structural vascular disease via alterations in heart rate variability: the SABPA study
(Elsevier, 2013)
Objectives: Defensive coping (AC) responses in urban African males have been associated with vascular
responsiveness, partly explaining autonomic nervous system dysfunction. We therefore aimed to assess
whether AC responses ...
Metabolic and glutathione redox markers associated with brain-derived neurotrophic factor in depressed African men and women: evidence for counterregulation?
(Karger, 2013)
Background: Major depression is associated with evidence for metabolic and redox imbalance and also with reports of lower serum levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). However, the relationship between these ...
Alkaline phosphatase and arterial structure and function in hypertensive African men: the SABPA study
(Elsevier, 2013)
Background: Vascular calcification is believed to be due to the conversion of vascular smooth muscle cells into
osteoblast-like cells and is associated with mortality. Since hypertension and related mortality in Africans ...
Structural vascular disease in Africans: performance of ethnic-specific waist circumference cut points using logistic regression and neural network analyses: the SABPA study
(Thieme, 2013)
A recently proposed model for waist circumference cut points (RPWC), driven by increased blood pressure, was demonstrated in an African population. We therefore aimed to validate the RPWC by comparing the RPWC and the Joint ...