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Fuelling walking and cycling: human powered locomotion is associated with non-negligible greenhouse gas emissions

Scientific Reports, 2020
Reducing motorized transport and increasing active transport (i.e. transport by walking, cycling and other active modes) may reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve health. But, active modes of transport are not zero emitters.
Anja Mizdrak, Linda J Cobiac, Christine L Cleghorn, Alistair Woodward, Tony Blakely   +4 more
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Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high sodium intake in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012

South African Medical Journal, 2022
Background. Elevated sodium consumption is associated with increased blood pressure, a major risk factor for cardiovascular and chronic kidney disease. Objectives.
B Nojilana, N Abdelatif, A Cois, A E Schutte, E Wentzel-Viljoen, E B Turuwa, R A Roomaney, O F Awotiwon, I Neethling, R Pacella, V Pillay-van Wyk, D Bradshaw   +11 more
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Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?

South African Medical Journal, 2023
Background. Contrary to the World Health Organization’s internationally recommended medical certificate of cause of death, the South African (SA) death notification form (DNF) does not allow for the reporting of the manner of death to permit ...
P Groenewald, N Kallis, C Holmgren, T Glass, A Anthony, P Maud, Y Akhalwaya, E Afonso, I Niewoudt, L J Martin, C de Vaal, M Cheyip, D Morof, M Prinsloo, R Matzopoulos, D Bradshaw   +15 more
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Service delivery models for enhancing linkage to and retention in HIV care services for adolescent girls and young women and adolescent boys and young men: a protocol for an overview of systematic reviews

BMJ Open, 2022
Introduction Recent advances in the HIV care continuum have shown that an individual diagnosed with HIV should be initiated on antiretroviral therapy as soon as possible regardless of the CD4 count levels and retained in HIV care services.
Witness Chirinda, Trisha Ramraj, Ferdinand C Mukumbang, Edward Nicol, Catherine Mathews, Babalwa Zani, Wisdom Basera, Kim Jonas, Ngcwalisa Jama, Tracy McClinton Appollis, Desiree Pass, Darshini Govindasamy   +11 more
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Measuring the Burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Global Burden of Disease Framework

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2007
Reliable, comparable information about the main causes of disease and injury in populations, and how these are changing, is a critical input for debates about priorities in the health sector. Traditional sources of information about the descriptive epidemiology of diseases, injuries, and risk factors are generally incomplete, fragmented, and of ...
Mathers, Colin D., Ezzati, Majid, Lopez, Alan D.   +2 more
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Review of the evidence for the potential impact and feasibility of substituting saturated fat in the New Zealand diet

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2013
Objective: To estimate the potential impact on cardiovascular health of modifying dietary intake of saturated fat across the New Zealand population, and whether this would be appropriate and feasible.
Rachel H. Foster, Nick Wilson
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Assessment of cardiovascular disease risks using Framingham risk scores (FRS) in HIV-positive and HIV-negative older adults in South Africa

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2021
The relationship between HIV and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remains complex. The aim of this study was to estimate the 10-year CVD risk among HIV-positive and HIV-negative people.
Makandwe Nyirenda
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Cost‐effectiveness of asthma clinic approach in the management of chronic asthma in Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2013
Objectives: To compare cost‐effectiveness of an asthma clinic that would provide education, promotion of self‐monitoring of symptoms, regular review of treatment by a medical practitioner and a written asthma action plan to current practice in Australia.
Vittal Mogasale, Theo Vos
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The burden of disease in Malawi

Malawi Medical Journal, 2007
No Abstract. Malawi Medical Journal Vol. 18 (3) 2006: pp.
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The Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease

Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 2011
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) today is responsible for approximately one-third of deaths worldwide, and that figure will surely increase in both developing and developed countries as risk factors for the disease--primarily dyslipidemia, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, physical inactivity, poor diet, and smoking--continue to increase.
Deaton, Christi, Froelicher, Erika Sivarajan, Wu, Lai Har, Ho, Camille, Shishani, Kawkab, Jaarsma, Tiny   +5 more
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