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The changing pattern of pathology in black South Africans

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Charles Isaacson

Abstract


With increasing urbanization and westernization of the Black people of South Africa, an alteration in the distribution of various diseases is silently taking place. Some changes accelerated after transformation in 1994.

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Charles Isaacson, University of Witwatersrand

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Keywords

urbanisation; westernization; pathology; cardiovascular disease; cancer; liver disease

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South African Medical Journal 2007;97(11):1187.

Article History

Date submitted: 2007-05-15
Date published: 2007-11-23

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