… to Twenty, a birth cohort of South African urban children, to determine the relationship
between residential mobility and body mass index (BMI) amongst Black adolescents aged 15 (n=…

… the urban South African context, developed based on qualitative work conducted with the
cohort … of the known association between smoking, body weight and body composition(44). A …

… South Africa (SA) is undergoing rapid socioeconomic and … of obesity in South Africa, particularly
in the urban sector (formal … analysis of 97 prospective cohorts with 18 million participants…

… of urban Black South African adolescents from a rapidly transitioning urban environment that
can be generalised to other African … BP in children and adolescents varies according to age, …

… maternal age, birth weight, parity, smoking, term birth, height/body mass index at 16 years…
context of a cohort of South African adolescents born at the dawn of democracy in South Africa …

… type of environment that the Bt20 cohort were born into, because of the … status, socio-economic
status, heart rate, and blood pressure in African school children and adolescents. …

… in body weight differs by childhood socioeconomic status (… SES, upward social mobility and
adult body mass index (BMI), … be more advanced in urban areas in South Africa. Proximity to …

… Socio-economic status was measured using the Youth … , it may not correspond with body
fat percentage in different … as demonstrated in a cohort of African-American youth for whom …

… in these groups based on their body mass index (BMI). BMI of … among adolescents, young
adults, and adults in South Africa … urban and, therefore, this information is missing in this study. …

… with overweight/obesity among urban South African adults. … Body mass index (BMI) was
calculated as weight (kg) divided by … University of Cape Town for permission to use their cohort. …