Search strategy and terms guide
| Search | Search terms | Number of hits |
| #1 | Metabolic syndrome OR syndrome X OR insulin resistance syndrome | |
| #2 | Hypertension OR high blood pressure | |
| #3 | Type 2 diabetes mellitus OR type 2 diabetes OR diabetes Mellitus OR non-insulin dependent diabetes OR adult onset diabetes | |
| #4 | Human Immunodeficiency Virus OR Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Virus OR AIDS Virus OR HIV Seronegativities OR Seronegativity, HIV OR HIV Seropositivities OR Seropositivity, HIV | |
| #5 | #1 OR #2 OR #3 AND #4 | |
| #6 | African filter((((Angola OR Benin OR Botswana OR ‘Burkina Faso’ OR Burundi OR Cameroon OR ‘Cape Verde’ OR ‘Central African Republic’ OR Chad OR Comoros OR Congo OR ‘Democratic Republic of Congo’ OR Djibouti OR ‘Equatorial Guinea’ OR Eritrea OR Ethiopia OR Gabon OR Gambia OR Ghana OR Guinea OR ‘Guinea Bissau’ OR ‘Ivory Coast’ OR ‘Cote d’Ivoire’ OR Kenya OR Lesotho OR Liberia OR Madagascar OR Malawi OR Mali OR Mauritania OR Mauritius OR Mozambique OR Namibia OR Niger OR Nigeria OR Principe OR Reunion OR Rwanda OR ‘Sao Tome’ OR Senegal OR Seychelles OR ‘Sierra Leone’ OR Somalia OR ‘South Africa’ OR Sudan OR Swaziland OR Tanzania OR Togo OR Uganda OR ‘Western Sahara’ OR Zambia OR Zimbabwe OR ‘Central Africa’ OR ‘Central African’ OR ‘West Africa’ OR ‘West African’ OR ‘Western Africa’ OR ‘Western African’ OR ‘East Africa’ OR ‘East African’ OR ‘Eastern Africa’ OR ‘Eastern African’ OR ‘South African’ OR ‘Southern Africa’ OR ‘Southern African’ OR ‘sub Saharan Africa’ OR ‘sub Saharan African’ OR ‘sub Saharan Africa’ OR ‘sub Saharan African’ NOT ‘guinea pig’ NOT ‘guinea pigs’ NOT ‘aspergillus niger’)))) | |
| #7 | # 5 AND # 6 Limits: 01/01/1990 to 28/02/2017 in English and French on humans |