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Ten-year risk of fatal cardiovascular disease and its association with metabolic risk factors among waste pickers in South Africa

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death among non-communicable diseases in South Africa. Several metabolic risk factors contribute to the development of CVD. Informal workers such as waste pickers could be unhealthy lifestyle naive, and most public health research on C...

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Autores principales: Made, Felix, Nonterah, Engelbert A., Tlotleng, Nonhlanhla, Ntlebi, Vusi, Naicker, Nisha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8272349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34246223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-021-02150-y