A Health Status Update on Women in African Countries: Current Statistics, Critical Dilemmas, and Key Correlations

A Smith-Hunter, M Carzo, G Hunter - … on Current Business Issues in African …, 2023 - Springer
… to 2018, this study provides insights into the … obesity rates in Africa are as follow: Libya (32%),
Egypt (32%), and South Africa (28.30%). The top three countries with the lowest obesity

[PDF][PDF] COLLEGE OF NATURAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

T Tamiru - 2017 - core.ac.uk
… st century that increase the prevalence of diabetes parallels that of obesity. Obesity is excess
storage … The role of ACE I/D polymorphism in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus and its …

[PDF][PDF] Comparison of growth and body composition of infants born to mothers with, and those without, gestational diabetes mellitus

M Ngobeni - wiredspace.wits.ac.za
diabetes mellitus (GDM) is based on the presence of risk factors. Gestational diabetes mellitus
is … like obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and cardiovascular disease for both the …

Specific cut-off points for waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio as predictors of cardiometabolic risk in Black subjects: a cross-sectional study in Benin and Haiti

A El Mabchour, H Delisle, C Vilgrain… - Diabetes, metabolic …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
… The prevalence of overall obesity based on a BMI ≥30 kg/m 2 was 15.2% (24% in women
vs 6.4% in men; P<0.001). Metabolic characteristics of study subjects by sex are presented in …

Reforestation and the state of health of populations in Tessekere, Senegal

P Duboz, G Boëtsch, A Guissé, D Goffner… - Regional environmental …, 2019 - Springer
… to obesity and diabetes, etc.). The present study, therefore, sets out to analyze the prevalence
… independent factors associated with prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, and overweight/…

[PDF][PDF] Priscilla Duboz, Gilles Boëtsch, Aliou Guissé, Deborah Goffner, Jean-Luc

PS Peiry, E Macia - researchgate.net
… Kengne AP, Echouffo-Tcheugui JB, Sobngwi E, Mbanya JC (2013) New insights on diabetes
mellitus and obesity in Africapart 1: prevalence, pathogenesis and comorbidities. Heart 99(…

A snapshot of cardiovascular diseases in Africa in the new millennium

AP Kengne, BM Mayosi - Cardiovascular journal of Africa, 2013 - journals.co.za
… CVD from a global perspective, and the neglected CVDs, … into the pathogenesis and
management of cardiomyopathies … to prevent and control diabetes and obesity in Africa are still …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of a reduction in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption on the burden of type 2 diabetes in Brazil: A modeling study

LB Nucci, AEM Rinaldi, AF Ramos, A Itria… - Diabetes Research and …, 2022 - Elsevier
… where T2DM is mediated by BMI and the obesity prevalence in Brazil is increasing. However,
the limitation of estimating the prevalence and incidence of T2DM mediated by the BMI is …

Managing diabetes in urban Ghana: is it affordable?

F Pei - 2015 - search.proquest.com
… associated with diabetes in Ghana, despite diabetes's costly … diabetes patient (s) in urban
Ghana. Methods: Questionnaire-based interviews were conducted with 40 diabetes patients

The biochemical effects of Hypoxis hemerocallidea in the kidney and liver of streptozotocin-induced diabetic male Wistar rats

M Goboza - 2015 - etd.cput.ac.za
… have also been implicated in the pathogenesis of diabetes. Dietary constituents, smoking, …
indicated as the best form of therapy in obese diabetic patients with body mass index (BMI) …