Insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome in obese black South African women : a focus on risk factors / by Elmarié Jonker
Introduction: High rates of obesity occur in black South African women, up to double the rate in whites. Concern about the potential health burden of obesity in these women as well as a lack of understanding of the underlying mechanisms of obesity, motivated the POWIRS study (Profiles of Women with...
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North-West University
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/671 |