Genetic risk scores for cardiometabolic traits in sub-Saharan African populations

K Ekoru, AA Adeyemo, G Chen… - International Journal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… is lacking in populations from continental Africa. In the … of cardiometabolic traits in sub-Saharan
Africans (AF) and to make comparisons with European Americans (EUR) and African

Genomics of cardiometabolic disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa

SN Adebamowo, F Tekola-Ayele, AA Adeyemo… - Public Health …, 2017 - karger.com
… of cardiometabolic traits challenging. A key advance in the drive to identify the genetic
contributions to cardiometabolic … of genetic variations across African populations have significant …

Association of HIV and ART with cardiometabolic traits in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

DG Dillon, D Gurdasani, J Riha, K Ekoru… - International journal …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
populations of European descent, these results suggest differences in cardiometabolic traits
… need for monitoring and managing cardiometabolic risk in HIV-infected populations in SSA. …

Anthropometric measures and their association with risk factors for cardio-metabolic diseases in Kenyan adults

F Lajeunesse-Trempe, R Dufour… - Annals of human …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
sub-Saharan African populations. Aim: To investigate the association between anthropometric
features, MS and other CMD risk factors in a populationfeatures and cardio-metabolic risk …

… Centre: a resource to study the interplay between genomic and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases in four sub-Saharan African countries

M Ramsay, N Crowther, E Tambo… - Global health …, 2016 - cambridge.org
… of CMDs in sub-Saharan African populations, and possibly … and cardiometabolic dysfunction
in diverse African populationscardiometabolic traits in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic …

[HTML][HTML] Deriving an optimal threshold of waist circumference for detecting cardiometabolic risk in sub-Saharan Africa

K Ekoru, GAV Murphy, EH Young, H Delisle… - International Journal of …, 2018 - nature.com
… most common cardiometabolic risk … populations, where cardiometabolic risk is characterised
by hypertriglyceridaemia, while low TG is a consistent characteristics of people of African

[HTML][HTML] Cardiometabolic disease risk factors in pre-and postmenopausal women from four sub-Saharan African countries: A cross-sectional study

RP Chikwati, NG Mahyoodeen, NG Jaff, M Ramsay… - Maturitas, 2023 - Elsevier
… Regression models in combined West African populations demonstrated that postmenopausal
… A major characteristic of the West African sites are much lower levels of CMD risk factors, …

The cardiometabolic syndrome in persons of the African diaspora: challenges and opportunities

DP Schuster, T Gaillard, K Osei - Journal of the cardiometabolic …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… years lost to CVD in sub-Saharan Africa will rise from 6.5 million … Are there features of CMS
unique to Africa? Is the disease … in AAs and other African populations could provide insights …

Evaluation of waist-to-height ratio to predict 5 year cardiometabolic risk in sub-Saharan African adults

LJ Ware, KL Rennie, HS Kruger, IM Kruger… - Nutrition, Metabolism …, 2014 - Elsevier
… Table 1 shows baseline characteristics of the participants (577 men, 942 women). … to
other populations in sub-Saharan Africa. As there are few prospective SSA population-based …

Prevalence of selected cardiometabolic risk factors among adults in urban and semi-urban hospitals in four sub-Saharan African countries

S Kingue, S Rakotoarimanana… - … journal of Africa, 2017 - journals.co.za
… Table 1 shows the general characteristics of the study population. A total of 844 adults (57.4%
were women and overall mean age was 52.6 ± 11.6 years) were included in the study, …