Emerging trends in non-communicable disease mortality in South Africa, 1997 – 2010

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 477-484

  Nojilana, B ^a   Bradshaw, D ^a   Pillay van Wyk, V ^a   Msemburi, W ^a   Laubscher, R ^a   Somdyala, N I M ^a   Joubert, J D ^a   Groenewald, P ^a   Dorrington, R E ^b   Matzopoulos, Richard ^c   Nannan, Nadine ^c   Neethling, Ian ^c   Nicol, Edward ^c   Prinsloo, Megan ^c   Rossouw, Anastasia ^c   Sithole, Nomfuneko ^c   Bateman, Eric ^c   Bobrow, Kirsty ^c   Bryer, Alan ^c   Steyn, Krisela ^c   Levitt, Naomi ^c   more..

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREAST CANCER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPILEPSY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; NEPHRITIS; NEPHROSIS; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; POPULATION GROWTH; SOUTH AFRICA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 84964792496     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: 20785135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106i5.10674     Document Type: Article

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