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Browsing Research Articles (University of Pretoria) by Subject "Obesity"
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(New Media Publishing, 2018-09)There are some mistaken beliefs that exist about bariatric surgery and obesity. Here are 15 common ones.
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(MDPI, 2021-04-01)The interaction between obesity, cardiometabolic disorders and COVID-19 represents a syndemic that requires both social intervention and a multipharmacological approach. The risks associated with diabetes, obesity and ...
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(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2021-09)BACKGROUND : Black/African American women in the United States are more likely to live in neighborhoods with higher social vulnerability than other racial/ethnic groups, even when adjusting for personal income. Social ...
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(Elsevier, 2015-09)BACKGROUND & AIMS : The prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has increased with the obesity pandemic. We analyzed the transcriptional profiles of subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) and visceral adipose ...
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(International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019-09)African American women are a ected by earlier onset of age-associated health deteriorations and obesity disproportionally, but little is known about the mechanism linking body mass index (BMI) and biological aging among ...
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(Sage, 2023-03)We investigated the associations between paternal co-residence and asthma, obesity, and blood pressure among children aged 3–5 years. Mother/child dyads (N = 250) self-identified as African American or Black. Mothers ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010)No abstract available.
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(Nature Research, 2022-11-01)The mechanisms that underlie exercise-induced adaptations in adipose tissue have not been elucidated, yet, accumulating studies suggest an important role for microRNAs (miRNAs). This study aimed to investigate miRNA ...
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(MedPharm Publications, 2015)Heart failure is a global problem. It is estimated that approximately 38 million people worldwide experience heart failure, and this number is growing because of the ageing of nations’ populations, but also because patients ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2023-06)BACKGROUND : Diabetes and obesity in pregnancy have been associated with increased rates of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes compared with women with normoglycaemia and normal weight. OBJECTIVE : To investigate the ...
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(Psychological Society of South Africa, 2010)The experience of early traumatic exposure, obesity and finally the paradoxical forced behavioural intervention experienced by a small group of five different participants (three women and two men) who underwent bariatric ...
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(Wiley, 2015-01)One cause of obesity and related diseases like type-2 diabetes is overconsumption of cereal foods with readily available carbohydrates, resulting in hyperglycaemia and ultimately insulin resistance. A strategy to combat ...
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(MDPI Publishing, 2018-01-29)The aim of this study was to investigate differences/similarities in dietary habits and eating practices between younger and older, rural and urban South African adolescents in specific environments (home, community and ...
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(Bentham Science Publishers, 2014)This second part of the theme issue focuses more specifically on the role of obesity, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, leukocytes and microglial activation in ischemic stroke.
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(Frontiers Media, 2022-06-17)Polyphenols are one of the most abundant classes of secondary metabolites in plants and particularly relevant in leafy vegetables, fruits, berries, tea, and other beverages, with a wide range of health-promoting activities ...
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(Clute Institute for Academic Research, 2012-12)South Africa, like many other countries, is struggling with raising levels of obesity and the resultant health problems. Furthermore, as elsewhere in the world, this country is experiencing an ever-increasing need for ...
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(Medknow Publications, 2022-01)BACKGROUND : Ficus thonningii extracts exhibit hypoglycaemic, hypolipidaemic and antioxidant activitiese investigated the potential of methanolic F. thonningii stem-bark extracts (MEFT) to protect growing Sprague-Dawley ...
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(SpringerOpen Journal, 2015-04)The current lack of consensus on the relationships between hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity frustrates efforts to design good policies and programs to deal with the many problems. Disputes over terminology ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2018-10-25)Identifying a blood circulating cellular biomarker that can be used to assess severity of disease and predict the time to culture conversion (TCC) in patients with multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) would facilitate ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010)Obesity, which is described clinically by a body mass index (BMI) of > 30 kg/m2 is increasing at an alarming rate, and is recognised as a chronic disease by the World Health Organization (WHO). This epidemic decreases ...
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