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(AOSIS, 2024-05-29)BACKGROUND : The high burden of cryptococcal meningitis (CM) among people living with HIV persists despite widespread access to antiretroviral therapy. Efforts to prevent CM among people living with HIV could be hindered ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-02)BACKGROUND : In 2021, the HIV prevalence among South African adults was 18% and more than 2 million people had uncontrolled HIV and, therefore, had increased risk of poor outcomes with SARS-CoV-2 infection. We investigated ...
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(Nature Research, 2024)BACKGROUND : Anthropometric data quality in large multicentre nutrition surveys is seldom adequately assessed. In preparation for the South African National Dietary Intake Survey (NDIS-2022), this study assessed site ...
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(MDPI, 2024-04)BACKGROUND : This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of wheezing and its association with environmental tobacco smoke exposure among rural and urban preschool children in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, an area ...
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(BMC, 2024-07)BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 vaccination programme in South Africa was rolled out in February 2021 via five delivery channels- hospitals, primary healthcare (PHC), fixed, temporary, and mobile outreach channels. In this study, ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as the Taylor & Francis Group), 2024)BACKGROUND : Studies show a high prevalence of osteoporosis and fracture risk in kidney transplant candidates and recipients. However, little is known about the prevalence of osteoporosis among transplant recipients and ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as the Taylor & Francis Group), 2024)OBJECTIVE : A study was undertaken to explore the portion size estimation accuracy of bean bags as low-cost volumetric portion size estimation aids for amorphous foods. DESIGNS : Three observational, cross-sectional ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as the Taylor & Francis Group), 2024)AIM : The purpose of this study was to investigate how a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of an adapted diabetes nutrition education programme (NEP) was received by adults with sub-optimally controlled (HbA1c of ≥ 8%) ...
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(Wiley, 2024-10)Post-natal growth influences short- and long-term preterm infant outcomes. Different growth charts, such as the Fenton Growth Chart (FGC) and INTERGROWTH-21st Preterm Post-natal Growth Standards (IG-PPGS), describe different ...
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(MDPI, 2023-03-21)Appropriate feeding practices are protective against malnutrition and poor growth. We compared feeding practices and growth in HIV-exposed-uninfected (HEU) and HIV-unexposeduninfected (HUU) between 6-12 months of age in ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-10)BACKGROUND : Early childhood dietary patterns have been identified as potential factors that can influence the development of asthma in children. The objective of the study was to determine the association between dietary ...
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Prevalence of asthma and wheeze among preschool and school-aged children in Africa : a meta-analysis (Wiley, 2024-06)Please read abstract in the article.
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(Wiley, 2024-06)Please read abstract in the article.
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(Oxford University Press, 2023-04-15)BACKGROUND : In this study, we compared admission incidence risk and the risk of mortality in the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 wave to previous waves. METHODS : Data from South Africa’s SARS-CoV-2 case linelist, national COVID-19 ...
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(BMC, 2024-01)BACKGROUND : The global Human Resources for Health (HRH) strategy emphasizes the need to invest in HRH to meet population needs and improve the provision of quality health care services. In South Africa, dietitians are ...
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(BMJ Publishing Group, 2023-05)OBJECTIVES : Identify factors (demographic and clinical) associated with a non-suppressed viral load (VL) of people living with HIV (PLHIV) on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Nigeria. DESIGN : Cross-sectional study. SETTING ...
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(Springer, 2022-02)INTRODUCTION : Dietary omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) may reduce the risk of dementia. Many studies have investigated PUFA supplementation in high-income countries, yet food-based randomized control trials using ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2023)OBJECTIVE : The study aimed to explore and describe the infant feeding experiences of mothers of children aged 3 to 24 months, living in two selected informal settlements in Tshwane, South Africa. DESIGN : This exploratory ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as the Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)OBJECTIVE : To describe the dietary intake and its quality of patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) by assessing the dietary variety (DVS), dietary diversity (DDS), nutrient adequacy ratio (NAR) ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2023-08)OBJECTIVES : Prenatal growth affects short- and long-term morbidity, mortality and growth, yet communication between prenatal and postnatal healthcare teams is often minimal. This paper aims to develop an integrated, ...