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Browsing Research Articles (Clinical Epidemiology) by UP Author "Rheeder, Paul"
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Terblanche, Alta J.; Green, Robin J.; Rheeder, Paul; Wittenberg, Dankwart F. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2008-04)OBJECTIVES: To determine the efficacy and safety of adjunctive corticosteroid therapy in clinical Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PCP) in infants exposed to HIV infection. DESIGN: Double-blind randomised placebo-controlled ...
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Van Vuuren, A.; Rheeder, Paul; Hak, E. (Cambridge University Press, 2009-07)This study primarily aimed to estimate the association between influenza vaccination and the occurrence of hospitalization for acute respiratory or cardiovascular diseases, or all-cause death during the influenza season ...
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Muchiri, Jane Wanjiku; Gericke, Gerda J.; Rheeder, Paul (OpenJournals, 2009-06)This review article highlights the key factors that need consideration in planning an effective nutrition education programme for adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus in resource-poor settings. Type 2 diabetes is increasing ...
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Vorster, Mariza; Sathekge, Mike Machaba; Rheeder, Paul (Clinics Cardiv, 2010-05)OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine whether taking oral erythromycin prior to SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging with Tc99m-sestamibi would reduce the amount of interfering extra-cardiac activity and improve the image ...
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Ker, James A.; Rheeder, Paul; Van Tonder, R. (Clinics Cardiv, 2007-01)The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of the metabolic syndrome in a specific group of people. The ATP III criteria were used to identify the metabolic syndrome in a group of 1 410 corporate executives belonging ...
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Pieters, Marlien; Covic, Namukolo; Van der Westhuizen, Francois Hendrikus; Nagaswami, Chandrasekaran; Baras, Yelena; Loots, Du Toit; Jerling, Johann C.; Elgar, Dale; Edmondson, Kathryn S.; Van Zyl, Danie G.; Rheeder, Paul; Weisel, John W. (Schattauer, 2008-04)Diabetic subjects have been shown to have altered fibrin network structures.One proposed mechanism for this is non-enzymatic glycation of fibrinogen due to high blood glucose.We investigated whether glycaemic control would ...
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Pieters, Marlien; Van Zyl, Danie G.; Rheeder, Paul; Jerling, Johann C.; Loots, Du Toit; Van der Westhuizen, Francois Hendrikus; Gottsche, Louise T.; Weisel, John W. (Elsevier, 2007)Evidence exists for a relationship between glycaemic control and macrovascular disease. Non-enzymatic glycation of proteins may explain this relationship in part. We investigated the effect of blood glucose control, under ...
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Rheeder, Paul; Van Zyl, Danie G.; Webb, Elize M.; Worku, Zeleke (South African Medical Association, 2007-03)Sir James Paget, reflecting on his experiences at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London during 1835 - 1854, noted: ‘Some of the self-select of the pupils, making themselves into a kind of club, had a small room over a baker’s ...
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Rheeder, Paul; Venn, Marie; De Korte, Ewald; Van Zyl, Danie G. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2008-12)BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to investigate levels of foot care knowledge among patients attending the diabetes clinic at Pretoria Academic Hospital by comparing the knowledge of patients with ‘at risk’ feet ...
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Olckers, Antonel; Towers, Wayne G.; Van der Merwe, Annelize; Schwarz, Peter E.H.; Rheeder, Paul; Schutte, Aletta E. (Elsevier, 2007-05)Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is currently one of the fastest growing noncommunicable diseases in the world. It is induced by the pathogenic interaction between insulin resistance and secretion. This group of clinically ...
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Westaway, Margaret S.; Rheeder, Paul; Guloba, Geoffrey (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2008-09)No abstract available.
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Geyser, M.M. (Mimi); Rheeder, Paul (Medpharm Publications, 2008-07)BACKGROUND: Research into asthma is proceeding at an unprecedented rate and yet we live with a disease that escalates in prevalence and severity, despite a greater understanding of its pathophysiology and the necessary ...
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Rheeder, Paul (Medpharm Publishers, 2006-11)This article reports on the prevalence of diabetes in South Africa and gives projections for the epidemic proportions that this disease may take by the year 2030.
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