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Browsing Research Articles (Internal Medicine) by UP Author "Rheeder, Paul"
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Webb, Elizabeth M.; Rheeder, Paul; Wolvaardt, Jacqueline Elizabeth (Liz) (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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Muchiri, Jane Wanjiku; Gericke, Gerda J.; Rheeder, Paul (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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Dias, Stephanie Charmaine; Adam, Sumaiya; Abrahams, Yoonus; Rheeder, Paul; Pheiffer, Carmen (Public Library of Science, 2021-03)DNA methylation is increasingly recognized as a potential biomarker of metabolic disease. However, there is limited information on the impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection on the candidacy of DNA ...
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Dias, Stephanie Charmaine; Adam, Sumaiya; Rheeder, Paul; Louw, Johan; Pheiffer, Carmen (MDPI Publishing, 2019-11-20)Increasing evidence implicate altered DNA methylation in the pathophysiology of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). This exploratory study probed the association between GDM and peripheral blood DNA methylation patterns ...
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Joseph, Darren; Ker, James A.; Rheeder, Paul; Ueckermann, Veronica (University of Leicester, 2017-03-07)PURPOSES : Elevated cardiac troponins have been shown to be associated with mortality in critical care, but its utility is not well established, especially in the setting of renal failure. This study aimed to examine the ...
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Adam, Sumaiya; Pheiffer, Carmen; Dias, Stephanie Charmaine; Rheeder, Paul (Taylor and Francis, 2018)BACKGROUND : We investigated the association between markers of insulin resistance, chronic inflammation, and adipokines and GDM. METHODS : In our case-cohort study in Johannesburg we included women with GDM and controls. ...
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Boswell, Michael; Maimela, T.C.R. (Tshegofatso); Hameiri-Bowen, Dan; Riley, George; Malan, Albertus; Steyn, Nickietta; Nolutshungu, Nomonde; De Villiers, Talita R.; De Beer, Zelda; Mathabathe, John; Tshabalala, Khanyisile; Abdullah, Fareed; Ramlall, Rajiev; Heystek, Marthinus J.; Basu, Debashis; Rheeder, Paul; Ueckermann, Veronica; Van Hougenhouck-Tulleken, W.G. (Wesley) (AOSIS, 2023-01-27)BACKGROUND : HIV infection causes immune dysregulation affecting T-cell and monocyte function, which may alter coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pathophysiology. OBJECTIVES : We investigated the associations among ...
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Ker, James A.; Oosthuizen, H.; Rheeder, Paul (Clinics Cardiv, 2008-03)BACKGROUND: Many clinical guidelines have adopted a multifactorial cardiovascular risk assessment to identify high-risk individuals for treatment. The framingham risk chart is a widely used risk engine to calculate the ...
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Abdullah, Fareed; Myers, J.; Basu, Debashis; Tintinger, Gregory; Ueckermann, Veronica; Mathebula, M.; Ramlall, R.; Spoor, S.; De Villiers, T.; Van der Walt, Z.; Cloete, Jeane; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Rheeder, Paul; Paruk, Fathima; Engelbrecht, Adel; Lalloo, Vidya; Myburg, M.; Kistan, J.; Van Hougenhouck-Tulleken, W.G. (Wesley); Boswell, Michael T.; Gray, G.; Welch, R.; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Jassat, W. (Elsevier, 2022-03)INTRODUCTION : The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019 is a global pandemic that is threatening the health and wellbeing of people worldwide. To date there have been more ...
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Morris-Paxton, Angela A.; Rheeder, Paul; Ewing, Rose-Marie G.; Ewing, Dillon (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-04-11)BACKGROUND : Non-communicable diseases, mainly cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases, are responsible for approximately 63% of all deaths occurring worldwide in any given year. The ...
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Ngassa Piotie, Patrick; Van Zyl, Danie G.; Rheeder, Paul (SEMDSA, 2015-01)OBJECTIVE : The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of micro- or macroalbuminuria in type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients, and to examine the relationship with the diabetes control parameters such as haemoglobin ...
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Adam, Sumaiya; Dias, Stephanie Charmaine; Rheeder, Paul; Pheiffer, Carmen (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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Muchiri, Jane Wanjiku; Gericke, Gerda J.; Rheeder, Paul (Cambridge University Press, 2016-01)OBJECTIVE : To evaluate the effect of a participant-customised nutrition education programme on glycated Hb (HbA(1c)), blood lipids, blood pressure, BMI and dietary behaviours in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. ...
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Muchiri, Jane Wanjiku; Gericke, Gerda J.; Rheeder, Paul (Springer, 2021-06)PURPOSE : This study evaluated the effectiveness of an adapted social-cognitive theory underpinned diabetes nutrition education program (NEP) on: clinical (HbA1c, BMI, blood lipids, blood pressure) and selected dietary ...
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Adam, Sumaiya; Rheeder, Paul (Wiley, 2018-04)OBJECTIVE : To investigate the performance of the Roche Accuchek Active glucometer in diagnosing gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) versus the gold-standard laboratory test. METHODS : In a prospective cohort observational ...
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Van Zyl, Danie G.; Rheeder, Paul; Delport, Eluned F. (Advance Access, 2012-04)OBJECTIVE: To determine if Ringer’s lactate is superior to 0.9% sodium chloride solution for resolution of acidosis in the management of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). DESIGN: Parallel double blind randomized ...
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Ker, James A.; Rheeder, Paul; Van Tonder, R. (Clinics Cardiv, 2007-01)The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of the metabolic syndrome in a specific group of people. The ATP III criteria were used to identify the metabolic syndrome in a group of 1 410 corporate executives belonging ...
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Dias, Stephanie Charmaine; Adam, Sumaiya; Van Wyk, Nastasja; Rheeder, Paul; Louw, Johan; Pheiffer, Carmen (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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Pieters, Marlien; Covic, Namukolo; Van der Westhuizen, Francois Hendrikus; Nagaswami, Chandrasekaran; Baras, Yelena; Loots, Du Toit; Jerling, Johann C.; Elgar, Dale; Edmondson, Kathryn S.; Van Zyl, Danie G.; Rheeder, Paul; Weisel, John W. (Schattauer, 2008-04)Diabetic subjects have been shown to have altered fibrin network structures.One proposed mechanism for this is non-enzymatic glycation of fibrinogen due to high blood glucose.We investigated whether glycaemic control would ...
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Pieters, Marlien; Van Zyl, Danie G.; Rheeder, Paul; Jerling, Johann C.; Loots, Du Toit; Van der Westhuizen, Francois Hendrikus; Gottsche, Louise T.; Weisel, John W. (Elsevier, 2007)Evidence exists for a relationship between glycaemic control and macrovascular disease. Non-enzymatic glycation of proteins may explain this relationship in part. We investigated the effect of blood glucose control, under ...
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