Browsing Research Output by Subject "Death"
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Attenuated IGF-1 predicts all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in a Black population: a five-year prospective study
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2016)Background: Inconsistent findings are reported on whether insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) is protective or harmful in predicting hypertension, carotid wall thickness and mortality. We determined the five-year ... -
Clergies and self-care during the COVID-19 pandemic : a challenge to pastoral care
(AOSIS, 2022)On the 15th of March 2020, the current president of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, declared a National State of Disaster as a response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A range of regulations ... -
A comparison between selected noncommunicable disease mortality rates between 2010 and 2016 among selected Southern African countries
(Sage, 2020)Researchers have identified cancer, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular, and respiratory diseases as being the principal pathologies of increased aged standardized death rates (ASDRs) among noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). ... -
Grandmothers and Grandchildren Learning Together: The Intergrational Relationship Implications of the HIV and Aids Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa
(IFE Centre for Psychological Studies (ICPS), 2017)This paper is based on the assumption that death from HIV and AIDS remains one of Sub-Saharan Africa's major development challenges. Africans are not so naive to believe that "danger" is as yet over; and our people are not ... -
Lung function, inflammation and cardiovascular mortality in Africans
(Wiley, 2016)Background The link between impaired lung function and cardiovascular outcome is well established in European and American populations. It is possible that this association may be driven by a systemic spillover of ...