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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Urban Black Women"”.
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The Relationships Between Health Literacy, Self-Efficacy and Readiness for Change to Health Promotion Behaviors in Urban Black Women
<p>Problem: Black women have been shown to experience higher rates of morbidity and mortality as a result of stroke, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and overweight or obesity than women of other races/ethnicities. The ability to avert certain health problems, such as cardiovascular …
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Investigation of weight management-related focus areas in middle-class overweight/obese Black (Zulu) women to advise healthy weight loss intervention development
… and Health Survey (1998 and 2003) revealed that urban black women had the highest prevalence of overweight/obesity and central obesity across all population and gender groups. This trend was confirmed by the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES-1) who reported …
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The impact of body fat and its distribution on risk factors for cardiovascular disease in black South African women
… prevalence of obesity is high, particularly in urban black women. Early detection of overweight and obese individuals is essential for the management of obesity and its related co-morbidities; however, there is no ethnic-specific field measure of body fat percent validated for use in black South …