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Alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease, cancer, injury, admission to hospital, and mortality: a prospective cohort study
(Elsevier, 2015)
Background: Alcohol consumption is proposed to be the third most important modifi able risk factor for death and disability. However, alcohol consumption has been associated with both benefi ts and harms, and previous ...
Use of natural gums and mucilages as pharmaceutical excipients
(Bentham Science, 2015)
Polysaccharide rich gums and mucilages are produced by different natural sources such as plants, animals and microbial organisms to fulfil structural and physiological functions. Their diverse structural compositions with ...
Lean mass appears to be more strongly associated with bone health than fat mass in urban black South African women
(Springer France, 2015)
To examine the association between body composition (fat mass, lean mass and body mass index, BMI) and bone health (bone mineral density, BMD and fracture risk) in urban black South African women.Design:A cross sectional ...
Proficiency at object control skills by nine–to ten year old children In South Africa: The NW–child study
(Ammons Scientific, Ltd, 2015)
Summary - Adequate profciency at object control skills, which is in?uenced by biological and environmental constraints, underlies the development of more complex sport–specific skills. This study describes profciency at ...
The use of anthropometric measurements and the Influence of demographic factors on the prediction of vo2max in a cohort of adolescents: the Pahl study
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
Background:
prediction models have not focused on children and adolescents from South Africa and have not included various demographic factors as possible predictors.
Aim: The purpose of this study was, therefore, to ...
Disordered eating behavior, body image, and energy status of female student dancers
(Human Kinetics Publ Inc, 2015)
Background: Modern culture has stereotyped the female body as one that is continually getting thinner.
Internalization of the ‘thin’ ideal is partly attributable to the inner ideal to be successful combined with the
external ...
Features of home and neighbourhood and the liveability of older South Africans
(Springer, 2015)
While older people live in developing countries,little is known about the relative importance of features of their" communities in influencing their liveability. We examine components of home and neighbourhood ...
Ethnic disparity in defensive coping endothelial responses: the SABPA study
(Elsevier, 2015)
Objectives:
Defensive coping (DefS) in Blacks has been associated with greater cardiovascular risk than in their White counterparts. We examined associations between endothelial function mental stress responses and markers ...
Intervention strategies used to address alcohol abuse in the North West Province, South Africa
(Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service, 2015)
Alcohol abuse has been reported as a major concern and is a source of social and economic problems in many developing countries such as South Africa (Monteiro, 2001:98; WHO, 2014:1). The Minister of Social Development ...
A conceptual model of quality of life for older people in residential care facilities in South Africa
(Springer, 2015)
This study explored older people s construction of quality of life (QoL) whilst living in a residential care facility. Six domains related to QoL were derived from a larger qualitative inquiry that employed multiple data ...