ABSTRACT
The numbers of patients treated for seven types of carcinoma during 1977 at 10 hospitals in South Africa have been reviewed. The total number of patients admitted to the 10 hospitals in 1977 was 286 373. Slightly more than 1%, namely 3 409, of these patients suffered from carcinoma of the cervix, oesophagus, breast, lung, liver, stomach or colon. Carcinoma of the cervix was commonest among Black patients and carcinoma of the colon among Whites. The relative incidence of the different types of carcinoma among Whites was almost the opposite of the sequence among Blacks.
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Neoplasms/epidemiology , Black People , Breast Neoplasms/epidemiology , Colonic Neoplasms/epidemiology , Esophageal Neoplasms/epidemiology , Female , Humans , India/ethnology , Liver Neoplasms/epidemiology , Lung Neoplasms/epidemiology , South Africa , Stomach Neoplasms/epidemiology , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/epidemiology , White PeopleSubject(s)
Morbidity , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Middle Aged , Rural Population , South AfricaSubject(s)
Black or African American , Cholesterol/blood , Urea/blood , Uric Acid/blood , Humans , Rural Population , Urban Population , White PeopleSubject(s)
Black or African American , Hypertension/epidemiology , Black People , Female , Humans , Male , Rural Population , South AfricaSubject(s)
Black People , Hypertension/epidemiology , Adolescent , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , NamibiaABSTRACT
An endemic goitre area was discovered at Masebuko, KwaZulu. Sixty cases of palpable euthyroid enlargement are reported and compared with a control group of 60 persons in a non-endemic area.
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Goiter/epidemiology , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Female , Goiter/etiology , Humans , Male , South AfricaABSTRACT
Myocardial infarction has been found to be a significantly frequent cause of unexpected sudden death in Black males in Pretoria and its vicinity. A study of 758 autopsies performed for unexplained sudden death in Blacks revealed 39 fatal infarcts in 511 males but only 1 in 247 females. The condition became evident in the third decade, rose sharply in the fourth and declined gradually thereafter.
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Black People , Death, Sudden/etiology , Myocardial Infarction/mortality , Adult , Age Factors , Aged , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Sex Factors , South AfricaABSTRACT
Sugar-cane juice ws not found to have a protective factor with regard to glucose tolerance curves.
Subject(s)
Sucrose/metabolism , Adult , Blood Glucose/analysis , Female , Glucose Tolerance Test , Humans , Insulin/blood , Male , PoaceaeSubject(s)
Calculi/etiology , Thrombophlebitis/complications , Vascular Diseases/etiology , Age Factors , Black People , Humans , South Africa , Veins , White PeopleABSTRACT
Phleboliths were sought in pelvic radiographs of some 1 500 patients of whom about half were White and half were Black. A marked difference was found, and many more phleboliths occured in the White group. It may be that the younger group of Blacks exhibit more phleboliths than do the older folk. Phleboliths may be found to serve as a 'marker' for a developing Western pattern of diseases.
