High risk of metabolic syndrome among black South African women with severe mental illness
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چکیده
From 1990 to 2013, there was an 81% increase in deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with more women dying from CVD than men.1 Obesity, hypertension, dysglycemia and dyslipidaemia are individual as well as inter-related risk factors for CVD. When these risk factors are clustered together, they are known as the metabolic syndrome (MetS).2 MetS has clinical utility because its presence doubles the risk of developing CVD within the next 5–10 years,2 with reports of women from SSA having a higher age-adjusted standardised mortality from CVD than women from other developing and developed regions.1 Black women have a higher prevalence of obesity and MetS compared to black men in the general population of South Africa.3
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