{"id":3944,"date":"2024-05-04T01:27:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T23:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/?p=3944"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:18:10","slug":"the-prevalence-and-probability-of-hypertension-among-youth-15-34-years-old-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/the-prevalence-and-probability-of-hypertension-among-youth-15-34-years-old-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The prevalence and probability of hypertension among youth 15-34 years old, in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher:<\/strong> Lucas Banda, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<br \/><strong>Supervisor: <\/strong>Prof. Nicole de Wet-Billings, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<\/p><p>There is limited and not so latest information from nationally representative data that exist about the prevalence of hypertension among the youth 15-34 \u2018years olds\u2019 in South Africa, though the prevalence is over 30% among the adult population 15+ (Seedat, Rayner, and Veriava, 2014). Youth in South Africa are faced with challenges such as unemployment and environments that expose them to poor diet habits, to alcohol and sub-stance abuse (Peltzer and Phaswana-Mafuya, 2013). Thus, understanding the probability of hypertension among the youth, 15-34 years in South Africa, conditional to demographic, socioeconomic and behavioral factors is critical.<\/p><p><br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher: Lucas Banda, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Prof. Nicole de Wet-Billings, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg There is limited and not so latest information from nationally representative data that exist about the prevalence of hypertension among the youth 15-34 \u2018years olds\u2019 in South Africa, though the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4441,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions\/4441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}