Interethnic physiological and pathological diversities in southern African populations.
The African continent accommodates a diversity of races--Arabs, Berbers, Nilo-Saharan, Bantu, Pygmies, as well as immigrant white and Indian populations, especially in Central, East and Southern Africa. In these populations and sub-populations, differences prevail in physiological variables, in biological disorders, in measurements made by laboratory and associated means, and in disease patterns. A salient question is: which differences will persist, and which become modified or even disappear as a result of progressive urbanisation, a rise in prosperity, and changes in lifestyle, particularly when these occur in populations previously poor or who have lived in a rural traditional manner.
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Department of Tropical Pathology, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
D044383:Black People; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D008019:Life Style / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D009017:Morbidity; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012923:Social Class; D013019:South Africa / Q000208:ethnology; D014506:Urban Renewal