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The African prospective study on the early detection and identification of cardiovascular disease and hypertension (African-PREDICT): design, recruitment and initial examination
(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 ...
Assessing tobacco use in an African population: serum and urine cotinine cut-offs from South Africa
(Elsevier, 2019)
Background
Cotinine, a nicotine metabolite, is used to measure tobacco use and exposure, but recommended cut-offs to differentiate tobacco users from those exposed through the environment range from 3 to 58 ng/ml in serum, ...