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Cardiovascular autonomic function tests in an African population
... study population. Epidemiological studies on BP in the African population describe a significant increase in BP when Africans move from rural to urban areas ...study population was rural or ...
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Inferences of Demography and Selection in an African Population of Drosophila melanogaster
... an African population to date and our results highlight the need to thoroughly explore the demographic history of presumed ancestral populations of this ...this population as well as refining ...
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A cross sectional study of vascular risk factors in a rural South African population : data from the Southern African Stroke Prevention Initiative (SASPI)
... plus) population in rural Southern Africa, and found a pattern that is fairly typical of that hypothesised for populations early in health transition ...the population, but the HDL/ total cholesterol ratio ...
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Sonographic Estimation of Visceral Adipose Tissue in an African Population
... Purpose: To establish normal values of sonographically-quantified visceral adipose tissue (VAT) in an African population and to correlate results with biomarkers. Patients and Methods: 100 male and 150 ...
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Helicobacter pylori Infection in an Urban African Population
... ulation from which they were drawn, but our analysis may be limited by two other factors. First, gastric biopsies were not taken, as this was not the purpose for which the endoscopies were carried out. Second, the ELISA ...
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Prevalence and factors associated with probable HIV dementia in an African population: A cross sectional study of an HIV/AIDS clinic population
... The International HIV Dementia Scale (IHDS) [5] scale was used for measuring probable HIV dementia. This is a bed side screening tool for HIV associated de- mentia. It can be used in a clinic setting and only re- quires ...
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Prevalence and characteristics of aquagenic pruritus in a young African population
... There have been frequent complaints of pruritus after bathing among young adults in this environment which oftentimes history, physical examination and investiga- tions are not revealing of any pathology. Olumide and ...
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... most African nations; a relatively young African population, with ...most African nations; hot or high temperatures and high humidity in most African nations; low levels of testing, ...
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African Sequence Variation Accounts for Most of the Sequence Polymorphism in Non-African Drosophila melanogaster
... other African population samples may contain this al- probability to falsely classify variants to be of European ...ple African populations need to be analyzed before firm When more than a single ...
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Saminadin-Peter, Sarah S. (2008): Evolution of gene expression and gene-regulatory sequences in Drosophila melanogaster. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie
... derived population. In combination with the ancestral African population, this provides a comprehensive picture of expression variability in the ...
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Population genetics of Anopheles funestus, the African malaria vector, Kenya
... the population divergence ob- served between ...impact population size of vector populations ...recent population decline of ...funestus population dynamics. Certainly, the factors driving the ...
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Cardiovascular disease, diabetes and established risk factors among populations of sub-Saharan African descent in Europe: a literature review
... of African descent in ...and African Caribbeans than in their European counterparts in the UK ...A population-based study of multiethnic middle-aged men and women in the UK found slightly lower ...
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Influence of socioeconomic status on changes in body size and physical activity in ageing black South African women
... settings [41], and this may be another reason for the greater difference in volume of physical activity observed in urban African women [33]. Women in urban settings sit for longer periods as a consequence of less ...
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Insulin resistance and associated factors among HIV-infected patients in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross sectional study from Cameroon
... identified associated factors. Second, our sampling method was not random and we recruited our patients from only one site, this can be a source of bias and may hamper the generalization of our findings to the entire ...
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Origin of the subscapular artery in the South African Black population
... There is great variability in the branching patterns of the axillary artery (AA). Racial differences have been reported to play a role in this variability. The subscapular artery (SA) is the largest and most variable ...
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Molecular epidemiology of African sleeping sickness
... Keywords: African trypanosomiasis; Trypanosoma brucei; sleeping sickness; molecular.. epidemiology; epidemics; microsatellites; genetics; population structure..[r] ...
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Molecular epidemiology of Giardia duodenalis in an endangered carnivore - the African painted dog
... characterisation of Giardia isolates obtained in a captive population of African painted dogs 564. over a 3 year period.[r] ...
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Possible causes of divergent population trends in sympatric African herbivores
... a population crash when wildebeest were unable to access floodplains on the lake edge and were stuck between water and riparian woodland, where they suffered high predation pressure from lion ...a ...
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Dyslipidaemia in a Black African diabetic population: burden, pattern and predictors
... Several reasons could explain the high prevalence of dyslipidaemia reported in our study and other similar African studies. Low rates of screening for dyslipidaemia and use of LLD have been noted in the majority ...
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Perinatal health outcomes of East African immigrant populations in Victoria, Australia: a population based study
... internationally. Three describe birth outcomes for Ethiopian-born women [10, 22, 23], three are of Somali- born women [8, 24, 25], and one report [26] focuses on outcomes for women from three of the Horn of Africa ...
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