Obesity is a major public health issue, affecting both developed and developing societies.
Obesity increases the risk for heart disease, stroke, some cancers, and type II diabetes …

Rapid urbanization in Africa has been linked to the growing burden of noncommunicable
diseases (NCDs). Urbanization processes have amplified lifestyle risk factors for NCDs …

Human gut microbiome research focuses on populations living in high-income countries and
to a lesser extent, non-urban agriculturalist and hunter-gatherer societies. The scarcity of …

Purpose The increasing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) attributable to high
body mass index (BMI) represents both a threat and an opportunity for intervention …

The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is growing swiftly in low-resourced
countries resulting in deleterious health resembling the NCDs burden in high-resourced …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology has profoundly transformed current
healthcare systems globally, owing to advances in hardware and software research …

Background Tanzania is one of the developing countries experiencing an increasing trend
of overweight and obesity among adults. Working adults have been identified as a high-risk …

Methods We used cross-sectional data from the 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health
Survey (KDHS). Data on body mass index for 13,048 women (aged 15–49 y) were analyzed …

Background Disease and lifestyle patterns have been changing rapidly especially in Africa
due to transformation in economic development and urbanization. Research on the …

Background There has been remarkable progress in the treatment of HIV throughout sub-
Saharan Africa, but there are few data on the prevalence and overlap of other significant …