List of works by Lisa K. Micklesfield

"Just because you're pregnant, doesn't mean you're sick!" A qualitative study of beliefs regarding physical activity in black South African women

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A comparison of body composition estimates using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and air-displacement plethysmography in South African neonates.

scientific article published on June 2016

A model for promoting physical activity among rural South African adolescent girls

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A pilot investigation of load-carrying on the head and bone mineral density in premenopausal, black African women

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A scoping review examining physical activity measurement and levels in the first 2 years of life.

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Adiposity Mediates the Association between the Dietary Inflammatory Index and Markers of Type 2 Diabetes Risk in Middle-Aged Black South African Women

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

Adiposity Phenotypes and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Adults from Sub–Saharan Africa: An H3Africa AWI–Gen Study

scientific article published on 19 March 2021

Adolescent Levers for a Diet and Physical Activity Intervention Across Socioecological Levels in Kenya, South Africa, Cameroon, and Jamaica: Mixed Methods Study Protocol

scientific article published in 2021

Africa in transition: growth trends in children and implications for nutrition

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Alterations in the metabolism of phospholipids, bile acids and branched-chain amino acids predicts development of type 2 diabetes in black South African women: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

An Exercise Intervention to Unravel the Mechanisms Underlying Insulin Resistance in a Cohort of Black South African Women: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial and Baseline Characteristics of Participants.

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

Antiretroviral Therapy, Especially Efavirenz, Is Associated with Low Bone Mineral Density in HIV-Infected South Africans

scientific article published on 3 December 2015

Application of Intervention Mapping to develop a community-based health promotion pre-pregnancy intervention for adolescent girls in rural South Africa: Project Ntshembo (Hope)

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Are South African Mothers Moving? Patterns and Correlates of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Pregnant Black South African Women

scientific article published on 7 February 2017

Association between infant nutrition and anthropometry, and pre-pubertal body composition in urban South African children

scientific article published on December 2012

Associations of linear growth and relative weight gain during early life with adult health and human capital in countries of low and middle income: findings from five birth cohort studies

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

Body Image Satisfaction, Eating Attitudes and Perceptions of Female Body Silhouettes in Rural South African Adolescents

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Body composition and physical activity as mediators in the relationship between socioeconomic status and blood pressure in young South African women: a structural equation model analysis

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Bone health in elite Kenyan runners

scientific article published on 13 April 2017

Bone mineral density and body composition of South African cricketers.

scientific article published on 21 September 2011

Bone mineral density and lifetime physical activity in South African women

scientific article published on 10 September 2003

Bone status after cessation of use of injectable progestin contraceptives.

scientific article published on 9 November 2007

C679X loss-of-function variant is associated with lower fasting glucose in black South African adolescents: Birth to Twenty Plus Cohort

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Light-Intensity Physical Activity Are Independently Associated with Reduced Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Urban Black South African Women: A Cross-Sectional Study

scientific article published on 13 November 2015

Cardiorespiratory fitness levels and associations with physical activity and body composition in young South African adults from Soweto

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Changes in eating attitudes, body esteem and weight control behaviours during adolescence in a South African cohort

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Childhood Obesity Prevention in Africa: A Systematic Review of Intervention Effectiveness and Implementation

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

Classical Cardiovascular Risk Factors and HIV are Associated With Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Adults From Sub-Saharan Africa: Findings From H3Africa AWI-Gen Study

scientific article published on 13 July 2019

Comparison of body fatness measurements by near-infrared reactance and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in normal-weight and obese black and white women

scientific article published on 2 November 2009

Comparisons of body size, composition, and whole body bone mass between North American and South African children

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Compliance With Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Guidelines and Associations With Abdominal Adiposity in a Sample of Infants and Toddlers From Soweto, South Africa

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Decreased Vigorous Physical Activity in School-Aged Children with Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Johannesburg, South Africa

scientific article published on 24 February 2016

Demographic, socio-economic and behavioural correlates of BMI in middle-aged black men and women from urban Johannesburg, South Africa

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Describing objectively measured physical activity levels, patterns, and correlates in a cross sectional sample of infants and toddlers from South Africa.

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Describing the diurnal relationships between objectively measured mother and infant physical activity.

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

Determinants of bone size and strength in 13-year-old South African children: the influence of ethnicity, sex and pubertal maturation

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Determinants of change in body weight and body fat distribution over 5.5 years in a sample of free-living black South African women

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Diagnostic ability of obesity measures to identify metabolic risk factors in South African women

scientific article published on 20 May 2011

Dietary intake and body composition in HIV-positive and -negative South African women

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Different adiposity indices and their association with blood pressure and hypertension in middle-aged urban black South African men and women: findings from the AWI-GEN South African Soweto Site.

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Does vitamin D status track through adolescence?

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Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and anthropometric estimates of visceral fat in Black and White South African Women

scientific article published on 17 September 2009

Dual-energy X-ray performs as well as clinical computed tomography for the measurement of visceral fat

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Early life and current determinants of bone in South African children of mixed ancestral origin.

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Eating attitudes, body image satisfaction and self-esteem of South African Black and White male adolescents and their perception of female body silhouettes

scientific article published on January 2014

Effect of different antiretroviral drug regimens on body fat distribution of HIV-infected South African women.

scientific article published on 18 January 2013

Effect of exercise training on insulin sensitivity, hyperinsulinemia and ectopic fat in black South African women: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Erratum to: A pilot investigation of load-carrying on the head and bone mineral density in premenopausal, black African women

scholarly article published in Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism

Erratum to: Ethnicity and bone: a South African perspective

scholarly article published in Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism

Ethnic Differences in Bone Acquisition

Ethnic differences in microvascular function in apparently healthy South African men and women.

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Ethnic differences in peripheral skeletal development among urban South African adolescents: A ten-year longitudinal pQCT study

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Ethnic-specific cut-points for sarcopenia: evidence from black South African women.

scientific article published on 21 January 2015

Ethnicity and bone: a South African perspective

scientific article published on 26 April 2011

Factors associated with menstrual dysfunction and self-reported bone stress injuries in female runners in the ultra- and half-marathons of the Two Oceans.

scientific article published on 11 May 2007

Fat redistribution and accumulation of visceral adipose tissue predicts type 2 diabetes risk in middle-aged black South African women: a 13-year longitudinal study

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

Food purchasing behaviour of shoppers from different South African socio-economic communities: results from grocery receipts, intercept surveys and in-supermarkets audits

scientific article published on 02 July 2020

Genomic and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases in Africa: methods used for Phase 1 of the AWI-Gen population cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Has the prevalence of stunting in South African children changed in 40 years? A systematic review

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

Heterogeneity of fracture pathogenesis in urban South African children: the birth to twenty cohort

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High prevalence of HIV and non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

scientific article published in October 2017

Impact of social norms and social support on diet, physical activity and sedentary behaviour of adolescents: a scoping review

scientific article published on 25 March 2015

Implications of COVID-19 control measures for diet and physical activity, and lessons for addressing other pandemics facing rapidly urbanising countries

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Incidence and prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus with HIV infection in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Insulin resistance is associated with lower acetylcholine-induced microvascular reactivity in nondiabetic women.

scientific article published on 24 January 2014

Kidney damage and associated risk factors in rural and urban sub-Saharan Africa (AWI-Gen): a cross-sectional population study

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Longitudinal Changes in Body Fat and Its Distribution in Relation to Cardiometabolic Risk in Black South African Women.

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

Longitudinal patterns of physical activity, sedentary behavior and sleep in urban South African adolescents, Birth-To-Twenty Plus cohort

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Maternal and early life influences on calcaneal ultrasound parameters and metacarpal morphometry in 7- to 9-year-old children

Meeting physical activity guidelines is associated with reduced risk for cardiovascular disease in black South African women; a 5.5-year follow-up study.

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Metacarpal Growth During Adolescence in a Longitudinal South African Cohort.

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Patterns, levels and correlates of self-reported physical activity in urban black Soweto women

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Physical Activity and Its Association With Body Mass Index: A Cross-Sectional Analysis in Middle-Aged Adults From 4 Sub-Saharan African Countries

scientific article published in March 2023

Physical activity and sedentary behavior among adolescents in rural South Africa: levels, patterns and correlates

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Physical activity and the risk for gestational diabetes mellitus amongst pregnant women living in Soweto: a study protocol

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Protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis of sex hormones and diabetes risk in ageing men and women of African ancestry

scientific article published on 03 January 2019

Quantitative ultrasound in relation to risk factors for low bone mineral density in South African pre-menopausal women.

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Radial and tibial bone indices in athletes participating in different endurance sports: a pQCT study.

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Radial bone size and strength indices in male road cyclists, mountain bikers and controls.

scientific article published on 8 July 2014

Regional Patterns and Association Between Obesity and Hypertension in Africa: Evidence From the H3Africa CHAIR Study

scientific article published on 16 March 2020

Regional and Sex Differences in the Prevalence and Awareness of Hypertension: An H3Africa AWI-Gen Study Across 6 Sites in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 13 March 2017

Regional and sex-specific variation in BMI distribution in four sub-Saharan African countries: The H3Africa AWI-Gen study

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Body Image Disturbances Among South African Mothers and Their Daughters Living in Soweto, Johannesburg

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Results From South Africa's 2016 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth

scientific article published on November 2016

Self-Reported Physical Activity in Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Rural South Africa: Levels and Correlates

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

Site-Specific Bone Mineral Density Is Unaltered Despite Differences in Fat-Free Soft Tissue Mass Between Affected and Nonaffected Sides in Hemiplegic Paralympic Athletes with Cerebral Palsy: Preliminary Findings

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

Socio-cultural, environmental and behavioural determinants of obesity in black South African women.

scientific article published on 19 September 2013

Stunting in infancy, pubertal trajectories and adult body composition: the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort, South Africa

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

Targeted proteomics of appendicular skeletal muscle mass and handgrip strength in black South Africans: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 09 June 2022

The Influence of Objectively Measured Physical Activity During Pregnancy on Maternal and Birth Outcomes in Urban Black South African Women

scientific article published on 7 March 2018

The Potential for Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Transport Systems in Africa and the Caribbean: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review and Meta-Study

scientific article published in 2023

The Role of Body Fat and Fat Distribution in Hypertension Risk in Urban Black South African Women

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The Role of Lifestyle and Psycho-Social Factors in Predicting Changes in Body Composition in Black South African Women

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

The association between body composition, 25(OH)D, and PTH and bone mineral density in black African and Asian Indian population groups.

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The association between high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and metabolic risk factors in black and white South African women: a cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on 7 May 2018

The associations between adult body composition and abdominal adiposity outcomes, and relative weight gain and linear growth from birth to age 22 in the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort, South Africa

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

The effect of exercise on obesity, body fat distribution and risk for type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 09 September 2014

The effect of loading and ethnicity on annual changes in cortical bone of the radius and tibia in pre-pubertal children.

scientific article published on 9 October 2015

The global diet and activity research (GDAR) network: a global public health partnership to address upstream NCD risk factors in urban low and middle-income contexts

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

The multimorbidity profile of South African women newly diagnosed with breast cancer

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Ultrasound bone measurements in pre-adolescent girls: interaction between ethnicity and lifestyle factors

scientific article published in June 2004

Understanding the Relationship between Socio-Economic Status, Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour, and Adiposity in Young Adult South African Women Using Structural Equation Modelling

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Validity and responsiveness of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) in assessing physical activity during pregnancy

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Waist circumference, BMI, and visceral adipose tissue in white women and women of African descent

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