The South African window.
Southern Africa presents some fine opportunities to examine the relation of lifestyle to chronic disease. A cross-cultural comparison of disease is the only feasible way to study many of the chronic diseases. Biomedical scientists have an obligation to undertake this. If they do not, there is the dreadful expectation that the rising cultures will soon suffer the same diseases which the members of the highest socio-economic classes must now endure.
D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000209:etiology; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000209:etiology; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000209:etiology; D004032:Diet; D004813:Epidemiology; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity; D005082:Physical Exertion; D012306:Risk; D013019:South Africa