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Highlights the urgent need to address the rising burden of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors, such as hypertension and obesity, in South Africa.
Over the past few decades, the burden of high blood pressure has shifted from high-income to low-income and middle-income countries, including sub-Saharan Africa.1 Raised blood pressure is accompanied by rising obesity trends, with 68% of South African women and 31% of men being overweight or obese.2 In South Africa, the age-standardised death rates for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are now higher than those of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis combined,3,4 with cardiovascular disease being the leading category of NCDs.
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