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2020 International Society of Hypertension global hypertension practice guidelines
(AHA, 2020)
Context and Purpose of This Guideline
Statement of Remit
To align with its mission to reduce the global burden of raised
blood pressure (BP), the International Society of Hypertension
(ISH) has developed worldwide ...
Association of dairy consumption with metabolic syndrome, hypertension and diabetes in 147 812 individuals from 21 countries
(BMJ, 2020)
Objective Our aims were to assess the association of
dairy intake with prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS)
(cross-sectionally) and with incident hypertension and
incident diabetes (prospectively) in a large ...
Inflammation and salt in young adults: the African-PREDICT study
(Springer, 2020)
Purpose
Low-grade inflammation and a diet high in salt are both established risk factors for cardiovascular disease. High potassium (K+) intake was found to counter increase in blood pressure due to high salt intake and ...
National expenditure on health research in South Africa: how has the landscape changed in the past decade?
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2020)
Background. Over the past 18 years, the South African (SA) Ministry of Health has committed to allocate 2% of the national health budget to research, while the National Health Research Policy (2001) proposed that the health ...
Development of a self-emulsifying drug delivery system for optimized topical delivery of clofazimine
(MDPI, 2020)
A quality-by-design and characterization approach was followed to ensure development of
self-emulsifying drug delivery systems (SEDDSs) destined for topical delivery of the highly lipophilic
clofazimine. Solubility and ...
Replication and expansion of epigenomewide association literature in a black South African population
(BMC, 2020)
DNA methylation is associated with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and related traits. Methylation data on continental African ancestries are currently scarce, even though there are known genetic and epigenetic differences ...
Trends in alcohol consumption in relation to cause-specific and all-cause mortality in the United States: a report from the NHANES linked to the US mortality registry
(Oxford Univ Press, 2020)
Background
Excessive alcohol use is the third leading cause of mortality in the United States, where alcohol use consistently increased over the last decades. This trend is currently maintained, despite regulatory policies ...
Short term association between ozone and mortality: global two stage time series study in 406 locations in 20 countries
(BMJ, 2020)
Objective To assess short term mortality risks and excess mortality associated with exposure to ozone in several cities worldwide.
Design Two stage time series analysis.
Setting 406 cities in 20 countries, with ...
Lifestyle factors and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study
(BioMed Central, 2020)
Background
Although lifestyle factors have been studied in relation to individual non-communicable diseases (NCDs), their association with development of a subsequent NCD, defined as multimorbidity, has been scarcely ...
Regional overview on the double burden of malnutrition and examples of program and policy responses: African region
(Karger, 2019)
Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing the double burden of malnutrition (DBM) with high levels of undernutrition and a growing burden of overweight/obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Undernourishment ...