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The use of predefined diet quality scores in the context of CVD risk during urbanization in the South African Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study
(2014-08)
Objective Urbanization is generally associated with increased CVD risk and accompanying dietary changes. Little is known regarding the association between increased CVD risk and dietary changes using approaches such as ...
Community care workers, poor referral networks and consumption of personal resources in rural South Africa
(2014-04-29)
Although home-based care (HBC) programs are widely implemented throughout Africa, their success depends on the
existence of an enabling environment, including a referral system and supply of essential commodities. The ...
Blunted neuro-endocrine responses linking depressive symptoms and ECG left ventricular hypertrophy in black Africans: the SABPA study
(Wolters Kluwer, 2014)
Objective: Chronic psychosocial stress as experienced in an urban environment plays an important role in the aetiology of depression-related cardiovascular risk. It is uncertain whether acute mental stress responses aggravate ...
Psychosocial stress but not hypertensive status associated with angiogenesis in Africans
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)
Aim. Increased angiogenic factors [vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A) and angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2)] have been associated with vascular dysfunction and hypertension. Black Africans undergoing rapid urbanization ...
Developing a sustainable nutrition research agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa—findings from the SUNRAY project
(2014-01-28)
Here we present the findings of a collaborative effort by stakeholders in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to identify priorities for nutrition research and actions to create an enabling research environment.
117 stakeholders ...
Health behaviour change of people living with HIV after a comprehensive community-based HIV stigma reduction intervention in North-West Province in South Africa
(2014-12-12)
All over the world, health behaviour is considered a complex, far reaching and powerful phenomenon. People’s lives are influenced
by their own or others’ health behaviour on a daily basis. Whether it has to do with smoking, ...
Cardiometabolic markers to identify cardiovascular disease risk in HIV-infected black South Africans
(2014)
Background.
The prevalence of HIV is the highest in sub-Saharan Africa; South Africa (SA) is one of the most affected countries with the
highest number of adults living with HIV infection in the world. Besides ...
Aard van neuro-motoriese inperkings by 7-en 8-jarige leerders met leerhindernisse
(2014)
This study aimed to determine the extent of neuro-motor impairments in 7 to 8 year-old children with barriers to learning and the possible relationship of such impairment to specific learning areas. ...
Perceptions of effective relationships in an institutional care setting for older people
(2014)
Effective relationships are reciprocal caring, warm, satisfying and trusting and enable people to maintain relative comfort, security and freedom from anxiety (Brownie & Hortsmanshof, 2012; Ryff & Singer, 1998; Smith–Acuña, ...
Experiences of people living with HIV and people living close to them of a comprehensive HIV stigma reduction community intervention in an urban and a rural setting
(2014)
HIV stigma remains high globally. Although there is a selection of HIV stigma reduction interventions discussed in the literature,
there is a paucity of research about the effectiveness of these interventions. This study ...