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Trends in technology, trade and consumption likely to impact on microbial food safety [PDF]

, 2010
Current and potential future trends in technology, consumption and trade of food that may impact on food-borne disease are analysed and the key driving factors identified focusing on the European Union and, to a lesser extent, accounting for the United ...
Cole, M.B., Cook, P.E., Gorris, L.G.M., Quested, T.E.   +3 more
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Tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death attributed to smoking in South Africa: results from the South African death certificate study

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background The question 'Was the deceased a smoker five years ago?' was introduced in mid-1997 on a revised South African death notification form to provide a direct estimate of tobacco attributed mortality, using a case-control method for ongoing ...
Pam Groenewald, Ria Laubscher, Victoria Pillay van Wyck, William Msemburi, Debbie Bradshaw, Freddy Sitas   +5 more
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Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012

South African Medical Journal, 2022
Background. Physical activity is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular outcomes, certain cancers and diabetes. The previous South African Comparative Risk Assessment (SACRA1) study assessed the attributable burden of low physical activity for ...
I Neethling, E V Lambert, A Cois, R A Roomaney, O F Awotiwon, R Pacella, D Bradshaw, V Pillay-van Wyk   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global burden of cardiovascular disease [PDF]

Heart, 2007
It was estimated in 1998 that 85% of the global burden of cardiovascular diseases occurred in low and middle income countries.1,2 Furthermore, about half the deaths in the 1990s attributable to cardiovascular diseases in these countries were in those below the age of 70 years compared with only a quarter in the developed countries.2 Although the ...
Sanderson, J, Mayosi, B, Yusuf, S, Reddy, S, Hu, S, Chen, Z, Timmis, A   +6 more
openaire   +1 more source

Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to unsafe water and lack of sanitation and hygiene in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012

South African Medical Journal, 2022
Background. The incidence of diarrhoeal disease is closely linked to socioeconomic and environmental factors, household practices and access to health services.
N Nannan, I Neethling, A Cois, R Laubscher, E B Turawa, R Pacella, D Bradshaw, V Pillay-van Wyk   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high body mass index in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012

South African Medical Journal, 2022
Background. A high body mass index (BMI) is associated with several cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and chronic kidney disease, cancers, and other selected health conditions. Objectives.
D Bradshaw, J D Joubert, N Abdelatief, A Cois, E B Turawa, O F Awotiwon, R A Roomaney, I Neethling, R Pacella, V Pillay van-Wyk   +9 more
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Directing diarrhoeal disease research towards disease-burden reduction [PDF]

, 2009
Despite gains in controlling mortality relating to diarrhoeal disease, the burden of disease remains unacceptably high. To refocus health research to target disease-burden reduction as the goal of research in child health, the Child Health and Nutrition ...
Bhatnagar, Shinjini, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Black, Robert E, Fontaine, Olivier, Kosek, Margaret, Lanata, Claudio F, Mahalanabis, Dilip, Rudan, Igor, Salam, Mohammed Abdus, Snyder, John D, Walker, Damian G   +10 more
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Estimating the changing disease burden attributable to raised low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012

South African Medical Journal, 2022
Background. Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is the most important contributor to atherosclerosis, a causal factor for ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and ischaemic stroke.
I Neethling, N Peer, A Cois, B Nojilana, R Pacella, D Bradshaw, V Pillay van-Wyk   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exceptional aggressiveness of cerebral cavernous malformation disease associated with PDCD10 mutations. [PDF]

, 2015
PurposeThe phenotypic manifestations of cerebral cavernous malformation disease caused by rare PDCD10 mutations have not been systematically examined, and a mechanistic link to Rho kinase-mediated hyperpermeability, a potential therapeutic target, has ...
Akers, Amy L, Austin, Cecilia, Awad, Issam A, De Souza, Jorge Marcondes, Gallione, Carol J, Gunel, Murat, Lee, Connie, Marchuk, Douglas A, McDonald, David A, Mikati, Abdul Ghani, Min, Wang, Rebeiz, Tania, Rorrer, Autumn, Shenkar, Robert, Shi, Changbin, Stockton, Rebecca A, Zhang, Lingjiao   +16 more
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Rapid mortality surveillance using a national population register to monitor excess deaths during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in South Africa

Genus, 2021
This paper describes how an up-to-date national population register recording deaths by age and sex, whether deaths were due to natural or unnatural causes, and the offices at which the deaths were recorded can be used to monitor excess death during the ...
Rob E. Dorrington, Tom A. Moultrie, Ria Laubscher, Pam J. Groenewald, Debbie Bradshaw   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source