Obesity and type 2 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africans - Is the burden in today's Africa similar to African migrants in Europe? The RODAM study

BMC Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Agyemang, Charles ^a   Meeks, Karlijn ^a   Beune, Erik ^a   Owusu Dabo, Ellis ^b   Mockenhaupt, Frank P ^c   Addo, Juliet ^d   de Graft Aikins, Ama ^e   Bahendeka, Silver ^f   Danquah, Ina ^g   Schulze, Matthias B ^g   Spranger, Joachim ^c   Burr, Tom ^h   Agyei Baffour, Peter ^b   Amoah, Stephen K ^c,i   Galbete, Cecilia ^g   Henneman, Peter ^j   Klipstein Grobusch, Kerstin ^k,l   Nicolaou, Mary ^a   Adeyemo, Adebowale ^m   van Straalen, Jan ^j   Smeeth, Liam ^d   Stronks, Karien ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^f UGANDA MARTYRS UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^g GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^h Source BioScience   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ ResearchGate   (Germany)

^j ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^k UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^l UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^m NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Ethnic minority groups; Europe; Migrants; Obesity; Sub Saharan Africa; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; GHANAIAN; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MALE; MIGRANT; NETHERLANDS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; URBAN POPULATION; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGED; BLACK PERSON; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 84992028323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0709-0     Document Type: Article

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