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Body composition and physical activity as mediators in the relationship between socioeconomic status and blood pressure in young South African women: a structural equation model analysis

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  • Richard J Munthali MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mercy Manyema MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rihlat Said-Mohamed MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Juliana Kagura MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Stephen Tollman MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kathleen Kahn MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • F Xavier Gómez-Olivé MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lisa K Micklesfield MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • David Dunger MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Department of Paediatrics, MRL Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, NIHR Cambridge Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Shane A Norris MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Richard J Munthali; munthali{at}aims.ac.za
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Munthali RJ, Manyema M, Said-Mohamed R, et al
Body composition and physical activity as mediators in the relationship between socioeconomic status and blood pressure in young South African women: a structural equation model analysis
BMJ Open 2018;8:e023404. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023404

Publication history

  • Received April 10, 2018
  • Revised November 8, 2018
  • Accepted November 9, 2018
  • First published December 19, 2018.
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July 20, 2019
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