The emergence of cardiovascular disease during urbanisation of Africans

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 1 A, 2002, Pages 239-243

  Vorster, H H ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Black South Africans; Hypertension; Ischaemic heart disease; Non communicable disease; Nutrition transition; Obesity; Stroke; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; FIBRINOGEN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HOMOCYSTEINE;

BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIET; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MORTALITY; OBESITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; REVIEW; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING HABIT; SOUTH AFRICA; STROKE; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLOOD; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; MALE; METABOLISM; NEGRO; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

ANIMALIA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL; DIET; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 0036463833     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2001299     Document Type: Review

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