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Obesity and type 2 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africans – Is the burden in today’s Africa similar to African migrants in Europe? The RODAM study
BACKGROUND: Rising rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) are impending major threats to the health of African populations, but the extent to which they differ between rural and urban settings in Africa and upon migration to Europe is unknown. We assessed the burden of obesity and T2D among Ghan...
Autores principales: | Agyemang, Charles, Meeks, Karlijn, Beune, Erik, Owusu-Dabo, Ellis, Mockenhaupt, Frank P., Addo, Juliet, de Graft Aikins, Ama, Bahendeka, Silver, Danquah, Ina, Schulze, Matthias B., Spranger, Joachim, Burr, Tom, Agyei-Baffour, Peter, Amoah, Stephen K., Galbete, Cecilia, Henneman, Peter, Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin, Nicolaou, Mary, Adeyemo, Adebowale, van Straalen, Jan, Smeeth, Liam, Stronks, Karien |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5075171/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27769239 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0709-0 |
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