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Research Articles (Internal Medicine): Recent submissions
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(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2019-01-01)BACKGROUND : The World Health Organization recommends that antiretroviral therapy (ART) programs in resource-limited settings develop third-line ART policies. South Africa developed a national third-line ART program for ...
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(MedPharm Publications, 2019)OBJECTIVE : To inform the adaptation of an intervention from a primary healthcare setting to a tertiary setting, the dietary and related self-management challenges and education programme preferences of adults with type ...
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(New Media Publishing, 2019-04)One of the acknowledged problems is that the elderly has not been represented enough in randomised clinical trials of myocardial infarction (MI) management. Now, 40 years since the first percutaneous coronary ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2020-08)Highly active anti-retroviral treatment (HAART) is currently the most effective treatment for HIV/AIDS. Additionally, HIV positive patients receiving HAART have a better health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Cancers ...
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(Elsevier, 2020-12)The Sub-Saharan countries, particularly South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV, accompanied by the largest antiretroviral treatment (ART) programme in the world. The Highly Active Antiretroviral ...
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(MedPharm Publications, 2020)BACKGROUND : A patient-centred approach with self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) has emerged as the preferred approach in monitoring and managing blood glucose. The success of SMBG in diabetes treatment and management ...
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(BMC, 2020-07)BACKGROUND: Ralstonia species are Gram-negative bacilli of low virulence. These organisms are capable of causing healthcare associated infections through contaminated solutions. In this study, we aimed to determine the ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-08-20)INTRODUCTION : Bacillus species are often considered as contaminants when cultured from clinical samples. Bacillus cereus may be a pathogen in certain circumstances and is known to cause musculoskeletal infections. This ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-07)Chronic heart failure is common, debilitating, and often the culmination of pervasive cardiovascular insults that systematically undermine the heart’s circulatory capacity and invoke counterproductive neuro-hormonal ...
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(OASIS, 2019-03)Globally more than 1 billion people have hypertension and it is predicted that because of ageing populations and increasing sedentary lifestyles, this figure will rise to about 1.5 billion by 2025. Elevated blood pressure ...
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(Medpharm Publications, 2019-12)In general, heart failure is the end-stage manifestation of cardiovascular disease and is an important and increasing cause of morbidity worldwide. Acute heart failure, whether of new onset or an exacerbation of chronic ...
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(NISC (Pty), Medpharm Publications, and Informa UK Limited, 2021)OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to adapt a diabetes nutrition education programme (NEP) developed for a primary healthcare setting for implementation in a tertiary healthcare setting. This manuscript describes ...
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(SEEd Medical Publishers, 2019-01-16)Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) originates from an acquired genetic defect in a multipotent hematopoietic stem cell that becomes stem-cell-like in its ability to survive, expand, and self-renew. PNH is a rare ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-10-17)BACKGROUND : In South Africa, much of diabetes care takes place at primary healthcare (PHC) facilities where screening for diabetic complications is often low. Clinics require access to equipment, resources and a functional ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2019-07)The early detection and management of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) present an ideal opportunity to decrease perinatal complications and adverse long-term health outcomes in mothers and their offspring. This review ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2019-07)Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with adverse maternal, fetal and perinatal complications. Without appropriate glucose management, women with GDM and their offspring have an increased risk of developing ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2019-07)The prevalence of non-communicable diseases in South Africa (SA) is increasing. Alarmingly, SA is one of the nations with the most obese people in the world. The incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2019-12-20)INTRODUCTION : There is a risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT) during pregnancy and breastfeeding. The aim of this study was to assess vertical transmission of HIV among pregnant women who initially had ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2019)BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE : Recently, several studies have reported that DNA methylation changes in tissue are reflected in blood, sparking interest in the potential use of global DNA methylation as a biomarker for gestational ...
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(Wiley, 2020-12)AIMS : To compare the age at diagnosis and prevalence of islet autoantibody [glutamic acid decarboxylase (65 kDa) 65 and islet antigen 2] positivity in black and white participants with type 1 diabetes in South Africa, and ...
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