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Naomi Levitt

University of Cape TownORCID

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A. K. Jenum, Kamlesh Khunti, L.K. Levitt, Laakso, Markku, Lawrence A Leiter, Levitt Ns, Levitt, Naomi, Maylene Shung King, Maylene Shung-King, N LEVITT

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University of Cape TownSouth African Medical Research CouncilSouth African Tuberculosis Vaccine InitiativeGroote Schuur HospitalUniversity of the Witwatersrand
NL

About

Naomi Levitt is an author at University of Cape Town specializing in medicine, public health, and diabetes.

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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

Leandra Abarca-Gómez, Ziad Abdeen, Zargar Abdul Hamid,

The Lancet

2017

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Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

Bin Zhou, Rodrigo M. Carrillo‐Larco, Goodarz Danaei,

The Lancet

2021

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Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults

Nowell H Phelps, Rosie Singleton, Bin Zhou,

The Lancet

2024

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Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Honor Bixby, James Bentham, Bin Zhou,

Nature

2019

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Risk Factors for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Death in a Population Cohort Study from the Western Cape Province, South Africa

Andrew Boulle, Mary‐Ann Davies, Hannah Hussey,

Clinical Infectious Diseases

2020

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Dexamethasone in the Last Week of Pregnancy Attenuates Hippocampal Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene Expression and Elevates Blood Pressure in the Adult Offspring in the Rat

Naomi Levitt, Robert S. Lindsay, Megan C. Holmes,

Neuroendocrinology

1996

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Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

Andrea Rodriguez‐Martinez, Bin Zhou, Marisa K. Sophiea,

The Lancet

2020

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Association of the triglyceride glucose index as a measure of insulin resistance with mortality and cardiovascular disease in populations from five continents (PURE study): a prospective cohort study

Patricio López‐Jaramillo, Diego Gómez-Arbeláez, Daniel Martínez-Bello,

The Lancet Healthy Longevity

2022

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Mobile Phone Text Messages to Support Treatment Adherence in Adults With High Blood Pressure (SMS-Text Adherence Support [StAR])

Kirsten Bobrow, Andrew Farmer, David Springer,

Circulation

2016

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Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Elevated Blood Pressure in Low Birth Weight, Nonobese, Young South African Adults: Early Programming of Cortisol Axis1

Naomi Levitt, Estelle V. Lambert, David Woods,

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

2000

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