Migrants face heart disease risk
09 September 2016 - 09:57
Heart disease and migration to cities go hand in hand, a scientific study has found. Diabetes, obesity, alcohol use and hypertension - four of the primary factors in cardiovascular disease - were higher among Xhosa people in the Cape Town township of Langa than they were in Mount Frere, in the Eastern Cape.
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