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Smoking and vascular dysfunction in Africans and caucasians from South Africa
(Clinics Cardive, 2011)
Background: Smoking is an important modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, with limited research having been done in Africans. We aimed to determine the association between smoking and measurements of vascular ...
Is HIV-1 infection associated with endothelial dysfunction in a population of African ancestry in South Africa?
(Clinics Cardive, 2011)
The chronic infection status suffered by HIV-infected individuals promotes chronic arterial inflammation and injury, which leads to dysfunction of the endothelium, atherosclerosis and thrombosis. Although HIV-1 subtype C ...
Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
(Elsevier, 2018)
Background Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for death and disability, but its overall association with health remains
complex given the possible protective effects of moderate alcohol consumption on some conditions. ...
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
(Elsevier, 2018)
Background
The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising ...
Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
(Elsevier, 2018)
Background Assessments of age-specific mortality and life expectancy have been done by the UN Population Division,
Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNPOP), the United States Census Bureau, WHO, and as part ...
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
(Elsevier, 2018)
Background
How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health, and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time all have implications for policy, planning, ...
Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
(Elsevier, 2018)
Background
Efforts to establish the 2015 baseline and monitor early implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight both great potential for and threats to improving health by 2030. To fully deliver ...
Morning blood pressure surge in young black and white adults: the African-PREDICT study. Correction to this article: Journal of human hypertension (2019) 33:172. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41371-018-0121-7
(Nature, 2019)
An exaggerated morning blood pressure surge (MBPS) has independent predictive value for cardiovascular mortality and is suggested to be prevalent in elderly hypertensive patients: men and white populations. To better ...
Early detection of cardiovascular risk in children: is there an alternative beyond routine blood pressure measurement?
(American Heart Association, 2019)
Predictors of hypertension awareness, treatment and control in South Africa: results from the WHO-SAGE population survey (Wave 2)
(Springer Nature, 2018)
South Africa has one of the highest levels of hypertension globally, coupled with poor rates of diagnosis, treatment and
control. Risk factors that predict hypertension in high income countries may perform differently in ...