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Patterns and correlates of objectively measured free-living physical activity in adults in rural and urban Cameroon.
DEVELOPING COUNTR Epidemiology of chronic non communicable diseases physical activity Adult Age Distribution Alcohol Drinking Anthropometry Body Mass Index Cameroon Chronic Disease Educational Status Family Characteristics Female Humans Life Style Male Middle Aged Motor Activity obesity Rural Health Smoking Urban Health Urbanization
Association between circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D and cardiometabolic risk factors in adults in rural and urban settings.
Camille M Mba, Albert Koulman, Nita G Forouhi, Stephen J Sharp, Fumiaki Imamura, Kerry Jones, Sarah R Meadows, Felix Assah, Jean Claude Mbanya, Nick J Wareham
Aug 01, 2022
BACKGROUND: An inverse association between vitamin D status and cardiometabolic risk has been reported but this relationship may have been affected by residual confounding from adiposity and physical activity due to imprecise...
Association between circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D and cardiometabolic risk factors in adults in rural and urban settings.
Camille M Mba, Albert Koulman, Nita G Forouhi, Stephen J Sharp, Fumiaki Imamura, Kerry Jones, Sarah R Meadows, Felix Assah, Jean Claude Mbanya, Nick J Wareham
Sep 02, 2022
BACKGROUND: An inverse association between vitamin D status and cardiometabolic risk has been reported but this relationship may have been affected by residual confounding from adiposity and physical activity due to imprecise...
Analysis of Cameroon's Sectoral Policies on Physical Activity for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention.
Lambed Tatah, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Maylene Shung-King, Tolu Oni, James Woodcock, Amy Weimann, Nicole McCreedy, Trish Muzenda, Ishtar Govia, Jean Claude Mbanya, Felix Assah
Dec 22, 2021
Physical inactivity is increasing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), urbanisation and sedentary living are rapidly growing in tandem. Increasing active living requires the...
A Systematic Review Protocol of Opportunities for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention via Public Space Initiatives in African Cities.
Ebele RI Mogo, Taibat Lawanson, Louise Foley, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Felix Assah, Toluwalope Ogunro, Victor Onifade, Damilola Odekunle, Richard Unuigboje, Nfondoh Blanche, Rose Alani, Lia Chatzidiakou, Olalekan Popoola, Roderic Jones, Tolu Oni
Mar 28, 2022
Public spaces have the potential to produce equitable improvements in population health. This mixed-methods systematic review aims to understand the components of, determinants, risks, and outcomes associated with public space...
A Mixed-Methods Participatory Intervention Design Process to Develop Intervention Options in Immediate Food and Built Environments to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living among Children and Adolescents in Cameroon and South Africa.
The Lantern Vol. 66, No. 2, Spring 1999
Oana Nechita, Monica Stahl, Jill Gonzales, Mike Edwards, Benjamin Jackendoff, Leah Miller, Karen Hollinger, Jilda Hodges, Nathan Rosen, Ashley Claus, Robert Cerrone, Genevieve Romeo, Thomas Lipschultz, Jeffrey Church, Gregory Klein, Tom Howard, Corey Taylor, Carolyn Harfman, Daniel Gallagher, Andrew Gerchak, Lou Nemphos, Raquel Pidal, Paul Guidry
Jan 01, 0001
Dowry The Ballad of the Lonely Thinker Dissipation Parliament Light Reflecting Hood Tonight Decree Not Yet The Man in the Moon The Sound and/or Fury Uh Huh Watch The Futility of a Drizzle in a Worsening...
Ursinus College Collegeville Pennsylvania Lantern Literary Magazine poetry fiction Creative Nonfiction Arts and Humanities Creative Writing fiction illustration Nonfiction poetry
Published by: Ursinus College
Implications of COVID-19 control measures for diet and physical activity, and lessons for addressing other pandemics facing rapidly urbanising countries.
Tolu Oni, Lisa K Micklesfield, Pamela Wadende, Charles O Obonyo, James Woodcock, Ebele RI Mogo, Feyisayo A Odunitan-Wayas, Felix Assah, Lambed Tatah, Louise Foley, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Divya Bhagtani, Amy Weimann, Camille Mba, Nigel Unwin, Anna Brugulat-Panés, Karen J Hofman, Joanne Smith, Marshall Tulloch-Reid, Agnes Erzse, Maylene Shung-King, Estelle V Lambert, Nicholas J Wareham
Oct 19, 2020
At the time of writing, it is unclear how the COVID-19 pandemic will play out in rapidly urbanising regions of the world. In these regions, the realities of large overcrowded informal settlements, a high burden of infectious and...
covid-19 Diet informal settlements Non-communicable diseases physical activity Policy urbanisation Betacoronavirus Built environment covid-19 Communicable Disease Control Coronavirus Infections Diet Exercise Food Supply Health Behavior Humans Pandemics Pneumonia Viral Risk Factors SARS-CoV-2 Urban Population Urbanization
Associations of serum folate and holotranscobalamin with cardiometabolic risk factors in rural and urban cameroon
Camille Mba, Albert Koulman, Nita Forouhi, F Imamura, F Assah, JC Mbanya, Nicholas Wareham
Jan 10, 2022
A low intake of fruit and vegetables and a high intake of meat are associated with higher cardiometabolic disease risk; however much prior research has relied on subjective methods for dietary assessment and focused on Western...
The global diet and activity research (GDAR) network
Tolu Oni, Felix Assah, Agnes Erzse, Louise Foley, Ishtar Govia, Karen J Hofman, Estelle Victoria Lambert, Lisa K Micklesfield, Maylene Shung-King, Joanne Smith, Eleanor Turner-Moss, Nigel Unwin, Pamela Wadende, James Woodcock, Jean Claude Mbanya, Shane A Norris, Charles O Obonyo, Marshall Tulloch-Reid, Nicholas J Wareham, GDAR network
Nov 16, 2020
BACKGROUND: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death globally. While upstream approaches to tackle NCD risk factors of poor quality diets and physical inactivity have been trialled in high income countries...
Diet Global Health LMICs Non-communicable diseases partnerships physical activity Upstream determinants Adolescent Africa South of the Sahara Caribbean Region Developing Countries Diet Global Health Health Policy Humans Income International Cooperation Noncommunicable Diseases Public Health Research Risk Factors
Drosophila phosphatidylinositol-4 kinase fwd promotes mitochondrial fission and can suppress Pink1/parkin phenotypes.
Animals Cytoskeletal Proteins Disease Models Animal Drosophila Proteins Drosophila melanogaster GTP-Binding Proteins Gene Expression Regulation Humans Locomotion Mitochondria Mitochondrial Dynamics mitophagy Mutant Proteins Nerve Degeneration Parkinson Disease Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases
Associations of serum folate and holotranscobalamin with cardiometabolic risk factors in rural and urban cameroon
A low intake of fruit and vegetables and a high intake of meat are associated with higher cardiometabolic disease risk; however much prior research has relied on subjective methods for dietary assessment and focused on Western...
cardiometabolic risk factors holotranscobalamin serum folate Adult Animal Proteins Dietary Biomarkers Cameroon cardiometabolic risk factors Cross-Sectional Studies Eating Female Folic Acid Fruit Health Promotion Humans Male Metabolic Syndrome Middle Aged Rural Population Transcobalamins Urban Population Vegetables
Anonymity, Systems Characteristics, and Feedback Provision in Online Learning Communities
The growing ubiquity of the Internet has attracted various studies on the various issues concerning online communities for education. These studies assume that systems characteristics do not play any major role in the behaviours...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
David Hume, Adam Smith, and William Hamilton of Bangour
Felix Waldmann
Jan 10, 2019
National Library of Scotland, MS 23159.7 is a thirty-two line poem in the hand of David Hume (1711–76), the philosopher. The poem is conserved within a collection of manuscripts devised to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1838...
The Mystery of Pandora
Domestic violence against women has been a serious social and public health problem faced by contemporary society. This type of violence has grown in recent years, placing the woman not only as a victim of the aggressor but also...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Collaborative Filtering Recommender System for Timely Arrival Problem in Road Transport Networks Using Viterbi and the Hidden Markov Algorithms
In this study, a timely arrival recommender system (TARS) using Viterbi and hidden Markov Model (HMM) was developed. Ratings from current road users were used as inputs and trained to provide recommendations to prospective road...
Systems & Software Design Computer Science and Information Technology Systems and Software Engineering
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
JOHN LOCKE AND THE TOLERATION OF CATHOLICS
Abstract The following Communication presents a newly discovered manuscript by John Locke. The manuscript dates from 1667–8 and it deserves notice as the most significant example of Locke's...
Politics, development and the instrumentalisation of (de)centralisation in Sierra Leone
Felix Marco Conteh
Mar 27, 2017
The politics of decentralisation reforms in Sierra Leone are unpredictable and instructive. This article, based on fieldwork, analyses party politics within the context of decentralisation, arguing that the imperatives of...
Spaces for contestation
Across mineral-rich sub-Saharan Africa, it has become increasingly common for mining companies to support development schemes in host communities where resource extraction takes place. The negotiation of so-called ‘community...
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