Publications

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Self-reported hypertension prevalence, risk factors, and knowledge among South Africans aged 24 to 40 years old

Asanda Mtintsilana, Witness Mapanga, Ashleigh Craig, Siphiwe N. Dlamini & Shane A. Norris, 2025, Journal of Human Hypertension, 39(2), 177-187

DOI: 10.1038/s41371-024-00957-8

Type: article

Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa

Dylan G. Maghini, Ovokeraye H. Oduaran, Lucier A. Ingasia Olubayo, Jane A. Cook, Shane A. Norris, Natalie Smyth, Theophilous Mathema, Carl W. Belger, Godfred Agongo, Palwendé R. Boua, Solomon S.R. Choma, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Isaac Kisiangani, Given R. Mashaba, Lisa Micklesfield, Shukri F. Mohamed, Engelbert A. Nonterah, Shane A. Norris, Hermann Sorgho, Stephen Tollman, Floidy Wafawanaka, Furahini Tluway, Michèle Ramsay, Jakob Wirbel, Ami S. Bhatt & Scott Hazelhurst, 2025, Nature, 638(8051), 718–728

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08485-8

Type: article

Retention in the Bukhali trial in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative analysis using self-determination theory

Catherine E. Draper, Nosibusiso Tshetu, Nokuthula Nkosi, Stephen Lye & Shane A. Norris, 2025, BMJ Global Health, 10(2)

DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-017729

Type: article

Cohort Profile: Africa Wits-INDEPTH partnership for Genomic studies (AWI-Gen) in four sub-Saharan African countries

et al & Shane A. Norris, 2025, International Journal of Epidemiology, 54(1)

DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyae173

Type: article

Recompensation in MASLD-related cirrhosis via metabolic bariatric surgery

Gong Feng, Yu Han, Wah Yang, Scott Shikora, Kamal Mahawar, Tan To Cheung, Giovanni Targher, Christopher D. Byrne, Virginia Hernandez-Gea, Herbert Tilg & Ming-Hua Zheng, 2025, Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 36(2), 118-132

DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2024.05.009

Type: article

Obesity phenotypes and dyslipidemia in adults from four African countries: an H3Africa AWI-Gen study

Engelbert A. Nonterah, Godfred Agongo, Nigel J. Crowther & Shane A. Norris, 2025, PLoS ONE, 20(1 January)

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0316527

Type: article

A survey of perceptions and behavioural responses towards the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa

Takana M. Silubonde, Catherine E. Draper & Shane A. Norris, 2025, African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 17(1)

DOI: 10.4102/phcfm.v17i1.4702

Type: article