Publications

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Building knowledge, optimising physical and mental health and setting up healthier life trajectories in South African women (Bukhali): a preconception randomised control trial part of the Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI)

Shane A Norris, Catherine E Draper, Alessandra Prioreschi, CM Smuts, Lisa Jayne Ware, CindyLee Dennis, Philip Awadalla, D Bassani, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Laurent Briollais, D William Cameron, Tobias Chirwa, B Fallon, CM Gray, Jill Hamilton, J Jamison, Heather Jaspan, Jennifer Jenkins, Kathleen Kahn, AP Kengne, Estelle V Lambert, Naomi Levitt, Marie-Claude Martin, Michele Ramsay, Daniel Roth, Stephen Scherer, Daniel Sellen, Wiedaad Slemming, Deborah Sloboda, M Szyf, Stephen Tollman, Mark Tomlinson, Suzanne Tough, Stephen G Matthews, Linda Richter & Stephen Lye, 2022, BMJ Open, 12(4)

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059914

Type: article

Waist circumference thresholds predicting incident dysglycaemia and type 2 diabetes in Black African men and women

J.H. Goedecke, K.A. Nguyen, C. Kufe, M. Masemola, T. Chikowore, A.E. Mendham, S.A. Norris, N.J. Crowther, F. Karpe, T. Olsson, A.P. Kengne & L.K. Micklesfield, 2022, Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 24(5), 918-927

DOI: 10.1111/dom.14655

Type: article

The diagnostic accuracy of HbA_1c, compared to the oral glucose tolerance test, for screening for type 2 diabetes mellitus in Africa — A systematic review and meta-analysis

T. Chivese, J. Hirst, J.T. Matizanadzo, M. Custodio, A. Farmer, S. Norris & N. Levitt, 2022, Diabetic Medicine, 39(4)

DOI: 10.1111/dme.14754

Type: article

Perspectives on gestational diabetes mellitus in South Africa

V. Nicolaou, N. Levitt, K. Huddle, L. Soepnel & S.A. Norris, 2022, South African Medical Journal, 112(3), 196-200

DOI: 10.7196/SAMJ.2022.v112i3.16024

Type: article

Prevalence and socio-structural determinants of tobacco exposure in young women: Data from the Healthy Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) study in urban Soweto, South Africa

L.M. Soepnel, A. Kolkenbeck-Ruh, S.H. Crouch, C.E. Draper, L.J. Ware, S.J. Lye & S.A. Norris, 2022, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 232

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109300

Type: article

Stem cell-based therapies for musculoskeletal regeneration

Rahul Tare, 2022, Physiology News, Spring (March) 2022(125), 24

DOI: 10.36866/pn.125.24

Type: article

Short- and long-read metagenomics of urban and rural South African gut microbiomes reveal a transitional composition and undescribed taxa

Fiona B. Tamburini, Dylan Maghini, Ovokeraye Oduaran, Ryan Brewster, Michaella R. Hulley, Venesa Sahibdeen, Shane A. Norris, Stephen Tollman, Kathleen Kahn, Ryan G. Wagner, Alisha N. Wade, Floidy Wafawanaka, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Rhian Twine, Zané Lombard, Godfred Agongo, Marianne Alberts, Stuart Ali, Gershim Asiki, Vukosi Baloyi, Palwendé Romuald Boua, Jean-Tristan Brandenburg, Francisco Camiña Ceballos, Tinashe Chikowore, Solomon Choma, Ananyo Choudhury, Nigel Crowther, Cornelius Debpuur, Mwawi Gondwe, Scott Hazelhurst, Kathleen Kahn, Christopher Khayeka-Wandabwa, Isaac Kisiangani, Catherine Kyobutungi, Zané Lombard, Given Mashaba, Felistas Mashinya, Theo Mathema, Lisa Micklesfield, Shukri Mohamed, Busisiwe Mthembu, Freedom Mukomana, Engelbert Nonterah, Shane A. Norris, Ovokeraye Oduaran, Abraham R. Oduro, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Michèle Ramsay, Osman Sankoh & Dhriti Sengupta, 2022, Nature Communications, 13

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27917-x

Type: article