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"I just wish that everything is in one place": facilitators and barriers to continuity of care among HIV-positive, postpartum women with a non-communicable disease in South Africa

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"I will leave the baby with my mother": Long-distance travel and follow-up care among HIV-positive pregnant and postpartum women in South Africa

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

scientific article

"You Must Know Where You Come From": South African Youths' Perceptions of Religion in Time of Social Change

scientific article

'I'd say I'm fat, I'm not obese': obesity normalisation in urban-poor South Africa

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

'We eat together; today she buys, tomorrow I will buy the food': adolescent best friends' food choices and dietary practices in Soweto, South Africa

scientific article

'You opened our eyes': care-giving after learning a child's positive HIV status in rural South Africa

scientific article

A comparison of the socio-economic determinants of growth retardation in South African and Filipino infants

scientific article

A complex behavioural change intervention to reduce the risk of diabetes and prediabetes in the pre-conception period in Malaysia: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

scientific article

A maternal "mixed, high sugar" dietary pattern is associated with fetal growth

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

A mixed methods exploration of patterns of healthcare utilization of urban women with non-communicable disease in South Africa

scientific article

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

scientific article

A protocol for monitoring fidelity of a preconception-life course intervention in a middle-income setting: the Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI), South Africa

scientific article published in 2022

A review of generalist and specialist community health workers for delivering adolescent health services in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article

Abdominal fat depots associated with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome risk factors in black African young adults

scientific article published on 5 October 2015

Accuracy of five plasma calibrated glucometers to screen for and diagnose gestational diabetes mellitus in a low resource clinic setting

scientific article published on 08 December 2018

Achieving accurate estimates of fetal gestational age and personalised predictions of fetal growth based on data from an international prospective cohort study: a population-based machine learning study

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

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

scientific article published on 19 March 2021

Adjusting Haemoglobin Values for Altitude Maximizes Combined Sensitivity and Specificity to Detect Iron Deficiency among Women of Reproductive Age in Johannesburg, South Africa

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

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

Adolescent Pregnancy and Attained Height among Black South African Girls: Matched-Pair Prospective Study

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

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

scientific article

Age and gender influence healthy eating and physical activity behaviours in South African adolescents and their caregivers: Transforming Adolescent Lives through Nutrition Initiative (TALENT)

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Age at menarche and the evidence for a positive secular trend in urban South Africa

scientific article published on January 2009

Alcohol use in early and late adolescence among the birth to twenty cohort in Soweto, South Africa

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

An analysis of retrospective and repeat prospective reports of adverse childhood experiences from the South African Birth to Twenty Plus cohort

scientific article published on 26 July 2017

Appetite regulation genes are associated with body mass index in black South African adolescents: a genetic association study

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

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

scientific article

Approaches for assessing the role of household socioeconomic status on child anthropometric measures in urban South Africa

scientific article published in January 2009

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

Are there short cuts to pubertal assessments? Self-reported and assessed group differences in pubertal development in African adolescents

scientific article

Assessing sugar-sweetened beverage intakes, added sugar intakes and body mass index before and after the implementation of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in South Africa

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Association Between Early Life Growth and Blood Pressure Trajectories in Black South African Children

scientific article published on 26 September 2016

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

scientific article published on December 2012

Association between maternal age at childbirth and child and adult outcomes in the offspring: a prospective study in five low-income and middle-income countries (COHORTS collaboration)

scientific article

Association of socioeconomic status change between infancy and adolescence, and blood pressure, in South African young adults: Birth to Twenty Cohort

scientific article

Associations between household and neighbourhood socioeconomic status and systolic blood pressure among urban South African adolescents

scientific article published on 11 April 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

Associations of physical activity and gross motor skills with executive function in preschool children from low-income South African settings

scientific article published on 10 March 2019

Attitudes and perceptions among urban South Africans towards sugar-sweetened beverages and taxation

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Autozygosity influences cardiometabolic disease-associated traits in the AWI-Gen sub-Saharan African study

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Barriers to early presentation of breast cancer among women in Soweto, South Africa

scientific article

Birth weight, postnatal weight gain, and adult body composition in five low and middle income countries

scientific article published on 28 November 2011

Blood pressure tracking in urban black South African children: birth to twenty cohort

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

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

scientific article

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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Body composition in the Study of Women Entering and in Endocrine Transition (SWEET): A perspective of African women who have a high prevalence of obesity and HIV infection

scientific article published on 19 May 2015

Bone Mineral Density, Body Composition, and Mineral Homeostasis Over 24 Months in Urban South African Women With HIV Exposed to Antiretroviral Therapy

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Branched-chain and aromatic amino acids and cardiometabolic risk in Black African and Asian Indian populations

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

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

Cancer, chemotherapy, and HIV: Living with cancer amidst comorbidity in a South African township

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

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

scientific article

Challenging socioeconomic status: A cross-cultural comparison of early executive function

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Changes in Bone Mineral Density, Body Composition, Vitamin D Status, and Mineral Metabolism in Urban HIV-Positive South African Women Over 12 Months

scientific article

Changes in dietary habits and eating practices in adolescents living in urban South Africa: the birth to twenty cohort

scientific article published on 30 March 2012

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

scientific article

Changes in the Vα7.2+ CD161++ MAIT cell compartment in early pregnancy are associated with preterm birth in HIV-positive women

scientific article published on 07 April 2020

Childhood adiposity trajectories are associated with late adolescent blood pressure: birth to twenty cohort

scientific article

Childhood adversity during the post‐apartheid transition and <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 stress independently predict adult <scp>PTSD</scp> risk in urban <scp>S</scp>outh <scp>A</scp>frica: A biocultural analysis of the stress sensitization hypothesis

scientific article published in 2023

Children's daily travel to school in Johannesburg-Soweto, South Africa: geography and school choice in the Birth to Twenty cohort study

scientific article published on 17 July 2013

Chronic non-communicable disease and healthcare access in middle-aged and older women living in Soweto, South Africa

scientific article

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

Cohort Profile: Mandela's children: the 1990 Birth to Twenty study in South Africa

scientific article published on 12 March 2007

Cohort profile: the consortium of health-orientated research in transitioning societies

scientific article

Collecting maternal health information from HIV-positive pregnant women using mobile phone-assisted face-to-face interviews in Southern Africa

scientific article published on 10 June 2013

Commentary: The value of life course epidemiology in low- and middle-income countries: an ageing perspective.

scientific article published on August 2016

Community perspectives on maternal and child health during nutrition and economic transition in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Community readiness for adolescents' overweight and obesity prevention is low in urban South Africa: a case study

scientific article

Comparative Models of Biological and Social Pathways to Predict Child Growth through Age 2 Years from Birth Cohorts in Brazil, India, the Philippines, and South Africa

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

scientific article

Cross-sectional associations of physical activity and gross motor proficiency with adiposity in South African children of pre-school age

scientific article published on 26 December 2018

Current socio-economic measures, and not those measured during infancy, affect bone mass in poor urban South african children

scientific article

Deep clinical and biological phenotyping of the preterm birth and small for gestational age syndromes: The INTERBIO-21 st Newborn Case-Control Study protocol.

scientific article

Deep clinical and biological phenotyping of the preterm birth and small for gestational age syndromes: The INTERBIO-21st Newborn Case-Control Study protocol

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

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Depression and type 2 diabetes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

scientific article published on 13 January 2014

Designing feasible interventions for healthy pregnancies in low‐resource settings ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

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

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

Determinants of relative skeletal maturity in South African children

scientific article published on 30 October 2011

Developing Intervention Strategies to Optimise Body Composition in Early Childhood in South Africa

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

Developmental origins of health and disease in Africa-influencing early life

scientific article published in March 2018

Diabetes care among urban women in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative study

scientific article published on 26 December 2015

Dietary Habits and Eating Practices and Their Association with Overweight and Obesity in Rural and Urban Black South African Adolescents

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

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

scientific article

Dietary intake and breast cancer risk in black South African women: the South African Breast Cancer study

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

Disadvantages of having an adolescent mother

scientific article published in November 2016

Does vitamin D status track through adolescence?

scientific article

Dolutegravir plus Two Different Prodrugs of Tenofovir to Treat HIV

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Double-duty solutions for optimising maternal and child nutrition in urban South Africa: a qualitative study

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

Drivers of disparities in stage at diagnosis among women with breast cancer: South African breast cancers and HIV outcomes cohort

scientific article published in 2023

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

Early Life Factors and Longitudinal Blood Pressure Trajectories Are Associated With Elevated Blood Pressure in Early Adulthood

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Early Life Growth Predictors of Childhood Adiposity Trajectories and Future Risk for Obesity: Birth to Twenty Cohort

scientific article published on 18 May 2017

Early Life Growth Predicts Pubertal Development in South African Adolescents

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Eating attitudes in a group of 11-year-old urban South African girls

scientific article

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 adiposity, season, diet and calcium or vitamin D supplementation on the vitamin D status of healthy urban African and Asian-Indian adults

scientific article published on 30 May 2014

Effect of ethnicity and sex on the growth of the axial and appendicular skeleton of children living in a developing country

scientific article

Effectiveness of home-based nutritional counselling and support on exclusive breastfeeding in urban poor settings in Nairobi: a cluster randomized controlled trial

scientific article

Effectiveness of personalised, home-based nutritional counselling on infant feeding practices, morbidity and nutritional outcomes among infants in Nairobi slums: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 27 December 2013

Energy, macro- and micronutrient intake among a true longitudinal group of South African adolescents at two interceptions (2000 and 2003): the Birth-to-Twenty (Bt20) Study

scientific article published on 05 March 2007

Environmental lead exposure and pubertal trajectory classes in South African adolescent males and females

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

Environmental lead exposure and socio-behavioural adjustment in the early teens: the birth to twenty cohort

scientific article published on 3 December 2011

Environmental, Social, and Structural Constraints for Health Behavior: Perceptions of Young Urban Black Women During the Preconception Period-A Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

Epigenetic modification of the pentose phosphate pathway and the IGF-axis in women with gestational diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Erratum to: Ethnicity and bone: a South African perspective

scholarly article published in Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism

Estimating the pathways through which maternal education affects stunting: evidence from an urban cohort in South Africa

scientific article

Ethical issues in genomic research on the African continent: experiences and challenges to ethics review committees

scientific article published on 21 August 2014

Ethnic Differences in Bone Acquisition

Ethnic and sex differences in skeletal maturation among the Birth to Twenty cohort in South Africa

scientific article

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

scientific article

Ethnicity and bone: a South African perspective ⬇️

scientific article published on April 26, 2011

Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of a Measure of Ethnic Identity Among Black South African Youth

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

Evaluating youth-friendly health services: young people's perspectives from a simulated client study in urban South Africa

scientific article

Examining the relationships between body image, eating attitudes, BMI, and physical activity in rural and urban South African young adult females using structural equation modeling ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

Factors affecting actualisation of the WHO breastfeeding recommendations in urban poor settings in Kenya

scientific article published on 17 December 2014

Factors influencing enrollment: a case study from Birth to Twenty, the 1990 birth cohort in Soweto-Johannesburg

scientific article published on 11 December 2008

Factors influencing the vitamin D status of 10-year-old urban South African children

scientific article

Fathers' Financial Support of Children in a Low Income Community in South Africa

scientific article

Fracture patterns and bone mass in South African adolescent–mother pairs: the Birth to Twenty cohort ⬇️

scientific article published on August 14, 2013

Gaps in Guidelines for the Management of Diabetes in Low- and Middle-Income Versus High-Income Countries-A Systematic Review

scientific article published in May 2018

Gaps in Hypertension Guidelines in Low- and Middle-Income Versus High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

scientific article

Gender differences in sociodemographic and behavioural factors associated with BMI in an adult population in rural Burkina Faso - an AWI-Gen sub-study

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Gender norms and health: insights from global survey data

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Genetic diversity in black South Africans from Soweto

scientific article

Genetic factors influencing bone mineral content in a black South African population ⬇️

scientific article published on 09 March 2013

Genetic risk score for adult body mass index associations with childhood and adolescent weight gain in an African population

Genetic substructure and complex demographic history of South African Bantu speakers

scientific article published on 07 April 2021

Genetic variants in CYP (-1A2, -2C9, -2C19, -3A4 and -3A5), VKORC1 and ABCB1 genes in a black South African population: a window into diversity

scientific article published in December 2011

Genetic variants in SEC16B are associated with body composition in black South Africans

scientific article published on 19 July 2018

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

Gestational diabetes mellitus in Africa: a systematic review

scientific article

Growth patterns in early childhood and final attained stature: data from five birth cohorts from low- and middle-income countries

scientific article

H3Africa AWI-Gen Collaborative Centre: a resource to study the interplay between genomic and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases in four sub-Saharan African countries

scientific article published on 22 November 2016

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

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

Health Pregnancy, Healthy Baby: testing the added benefits of pregnancy ultrasound scan for child development in a randomised control trial

scientific article published on 06 January 2020

Health and social scientists need to weigh in.

scientific article published on June 2007

Health system experiences of breast cancer survivors in urban South Africa

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Height-for-age z scores increase despite increasing height deficits among children in 5 developing countries

scientific article

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published in October 2017

High prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and insulin resistance 6 years after hyperglycemia first detected in pregnancy in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

How well do adolescents determine portion sizes of foods and beverages?

scientific article published on January 2006

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 adopting the WHO 2006 Child Growth Standards: case study from urban South Africa, the Birth to Twenty cohort

scientific article published on January 2009

In urban South Africa, 16 year old adolescents experience greater health equality than children

scientific article published on 06 June 2013

In-migration and Living Conditions of Young Adolescents in Greater Johannesburg, South Africa

scientific article

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

Infant programming of bone size and bone mass in 10-year-old black and white South African children

scientific article

Influence of catch-up growth on glucose tolerance and beta-cell function in 7-year-old children: results from the birth to twenty study

scientific article

Influence of socioeconomic status on changes in body size and physical activity in ageing black South African women.

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Innate lymphoid cells are reduced in pregnant HIV positive women and are associated with preterm birth

scientific article published on 06 August 2020

Insights into the genetics of blood pressure in black South African individuals: the Birth to Twenty cohort

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Integrated management of type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes within multi-morbidity conditions in Africa: a systematic review protocol

Integrating the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV into primary healthcare services after AIDS denialism in South Africa: perspectives of experts and health care workers - a qualitative study

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

International gestational age-specific centiles for umbilical artery Doppler indices: a longitudinal prospective cohort study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

Intervention strategies to improve nutrition and health behaviours before conception.

scientific article

Interventions to prevent maternal obesity before conception, during pregnancy, and post partum.

scientific article published on 12 October 2016

Inventory on the dietary assessment tools available and needed in Africa: a prerequisite for setting up a common methodological research infrastructure for nutritional surveillance, research and prevention of diet-related non-communicable diseases

scientific article published on 08 December 2014

Investigation into longitudinal dietary behaviours and household socio-economic indicators and their association with BMI Z-score and fat mass in South African adolescents: the Birth to Twenty (Bt20) cohort

scientific article published on 17 July 2012

Involvement of stakeholders in determining health priorities of adolescents in rural South Africa

scientific article published on 15 March 2016

Is puberty starting earlier in urban South Africa?

scientific article

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

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices about influenza illness and vaccination: a cross-sectional survey in two South African communities

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

Lead exposure is associated with a delay in the onset of puberty in South African adolescent females: findings from the Birth to Twenty cohort

scientific article published on 7 August 2010

Life History theory hypotheses on child growth: Potential implications for short and long-term child growth, development and health

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

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

Low birthweight and subsequent emotional and behavioural outcomes in 12-year-old children in Soweto, South Africa: findings from Birth to Twenty

scientific article published on 11 May 2009

Material and Relational Difficulties: The Impact of the Household Environment on the Emotional Well-Being of Young Black Women Living in Soweto, South Africa ⬇️

scholarly article

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

Maternal and neonatal outcomes following a diabetic pregnancy within the context of HIV

scientific article published on 15 September 2019

Maternal height and child growth patterns

scientific article published on 07 March 2013

Maternal perspectives on infant feeding practices in Soweto, South Africa

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Maternal postnatal depression and children's growth and behaviour during the early years of life: exploring the interaction between physical and mental health

scientific article published on 26 July 2010

Maternal prenatal stress and later child behavioral problems in an urban South African setting

scientific article published on March 2010

Maternal traditional dietary pattern and antiretroviral treatment exposure are associated with neonatal size and adiposity in urban, black South Africans

scientific article published on 30 July 2018

Measuring body composition in low-resource settings across the life course

scientific article published on 7 April 2016

Menopausal symptoms, menopausal stage and cognitive functioning in black urban African women

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Metabolic and Body Composition Risk Factors Associated with Metabolic Syndrome in a Cohort of Women with a High Prevalence of Cardiometabolic Disease

scientific article

Metacarpal Growth During Adolescence in a Longitudinal South African Cohort.

scientific article

Mobile Messaging Support Versus Usual Care for People With Type 2 Diabetes on Glycemic Control: Protocol for a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Modelling residential mobility: factors associated with the movement of children in Greater Johannesburg, South Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 August 2011

Multi-level modelling of longitudinal child growth data from the Birth-to-Twenty Cohort: a comparison of growth models

scientific article

Non-communicable disease syndemics: poverty, depression, and diabetes among low-income populations

scientific article published on March 2017

Nutrient Patterns and Body Composition Parameters of Black South African Women

scientific article published on 22 December 2020

Nutrient patterns and their association with socio-demographic, lifestyle factors and obesity risk in rural South African adolescents

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

Nutritional status and HIV in rural South African children ⬇️

scientific article published on March 25, 2011

Obesity, hypertension, and tobacco use associated with left ventricular remodeling and hypertrophy in South African women: Birth to Twenty Plus Cohort

scientific article published in 2022

Obesogenic Environments: Access to and Advertising of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Soweto, South Africa, 2013.

scientific article

Objectively Measured Physical Activity in South African Children Attending Preschool and Grade R: Volume, Patterns, and Meeting Guidelines

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Obstacles to intergenerational communication in caregivers' narratives regarding young people's sexual and reproductive health and lifestyle in rural South Africa

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

Patient-Centred Care for Patients With Diabetes and HIV at a Public Tertiary Hospital in South Africa: An Ethnographic Study

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

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

scientific article

Perceptions of diet, physical activity, and obesity-related health among black daughter-mother pairs in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative study

scientific article

Perinatal outcomes associated with maternal HIV and antiretroviral therapy in pregnancies with accurate gestational age in South Africa

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Perspectives on intimate relationships among young people in rural South Africa: the logic of risk

scientific article

Physical Activity Levels, Food Insecurity and Dietary Behaviours in Women from Soweto, South Africa

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

Physical activity in early childhood education and care settings in a low-income, rural South African community: an observational study

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Postnatal depressive symptoms and child psychological development at 10 years: a prospective study of longitudinal data from the South African Birth to Twenty cohort

scientific article

Potential effectiveness of Community Health Strategy to promote exclusive breastfeeding in urban poor settings in Nairobi, Kenya: a quasi-experimental study

scientific article published on 28 December 2015

Pre-existing morbidity profile of women newly diagnosed with breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa: African Breast Cancer-Disparities in Outcomes (ABC-DO) study

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Pre-pregnancy community-based intervention for couples in Malaysia: application of intervention mapping

scientific article

Predictors of adolescent weight status and central obesity in rural South Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on February 28, 2011

Predictors of postnatal depression in an urban South African cohort

scientific article

Prenatal and adolescent blood lead levels in South Africa: child, maternal and household risk factors in the Birth to Twenty cohort

scientific article

Prenatal care and child growth and schooling in four low- and medium-income countries

scientific article

Prevalence and determinants of overweight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults in Malaysia

scientific article published on 18 December 2014

Prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in women of childbearing age in Africa during 2000-2016: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in women of childbearing age in Africa during 2000-2016: protocol of a systematic review and meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 13 December 2016

Progression to type 2 diabetes mellitus and associated risk factors after hyperglycemia first detected in pregnancy: A cross-sectional study in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Psychological and physical co-morbidity among urban South African women

scientific article

Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vulnerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adolescence and early adulthood in Soweto, South Afri

scientific article published in 2022

Pubertal Development and Prepubertal Height and Weight Jointly Predict Young Adult Height and Body Mass Index in a Prospective Study in South Africa

scientific article published on 22 June 2016

Qualitative study exploring healthy eating practices and physical activity among adolescent girls in rural South Africa

scientific article

Quality indicators for the diagnosis and surgical management of breast cancer in South Africa

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

Race, Ethnicity, and Osteoporosis

Rapid infant weight gain and advanced skeletal maturation in childhood

scientific article

Reconsidering Priorities for Digital Maternal and Child Health: Community-centered Perspectives from South Africa

scientific article published on 04 October 2023

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

Regression equations to estimate percentage body fat in African prepubertal children aged 9 y.

scientific article published in July 2004

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

Relationships Between Maternal Factors and Weight Loss Attempts Among Urban Male and Female Adolescents Living in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Reliability and validity of last menstrual period for gestational age estimation in a low-to-middle-income setting

scientific article published on 06 September 2018

Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa

scientific article published in June 2014

Residential mobility, socioeconomic context and body mass index in a cohort of urban South African adolescents

scientific article

Response by Naidoo et al to Letter Regarding Article "Early Life Factors and Longitudinal Blood Pressure Trajectories Are Associated With Elevated Blood Pressure in Early Adulthood: BT20 Cohort"

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Responses to hypothetical health scenarios overestimate healthcare utilization for common infectious syndromes: a cross-sectional survey, South Africa, 2012

article

Rural-urban variations in age at menarche, adult height, leg-length and abdominal adiposity in black South African women in transitioning South Africa

scientific article

Sanitation and diarrhoea in infancy and CRP level at 18 years: the birth-to-twenty plus cohort

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Screen Time and Sleep of Rural and Urban South African Preschool Children

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Secular trends in skeletal maturity in South Africa: 1962-2001.

scientific article

Sex differences in obesity incidence: 20-year prospective cohort in South Africa

scientific article published on 19 May 2015

Short- and long-read metagenomics of urban and rural South African gut microbiomes reveal a transitional composition and undescribed taxa

scientific article published on 22 February 2022

Size at birth, weight gain in infancy and childhood, and adult blood pressure in 5 low- and middle-income-country cohorts: when does weight gain matter?

scientific article published on 18 March 2009

Size at birth, weight gain in infancy and childhood, and adult diabetes risk in five low- or middle-income country birth cohorts

scientific article published on 18 November 2011

Socio-economic influences on anthropometric status in urban South African adolescents: sex differences in the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort

scientific article

Socio-economic predictors of stunting in preschool children--a population-based study from Johannesburg and Soweto.

scientific article published on June 2009

South African Birth to Twenty Project

South African Breast Cancer and HIV Outcomes Study: Methods and Baseline Assessment

scientific article

South African-ness Among Adolescents: The Emergence of a Collective Identity within the Birth to Twenty Cohort Study

scientific article published on February 2008

Staging reproductive aging using Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop + 10 in black urban African women in the Study of Women Entering and in Endocrine Transition

scientific article published on November 2014

Stress begets stress: the association of adverse childhood experiences with psychological distress in the presence of adult life stress.

scientific article published on 5 July 2018

Studying a population undergoing nutrition transition: a practical case study of dietary assessment in urban South African adolescents

scientific article

Stunting at 2 years in relation to body composition at 9 years in African urban children

scientific article published on January 2005

Stunting at 24 Months Is Not Related to Incidence of Overweight through Young Adulthood in an Urban South African Birth Cohort

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

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

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