Elizabeth C Swart
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Recent Articles
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Annan R, Agyapong N, Aidoo R, Apprey C, Aduku L, Swart E
Public Health Nutr
. 2025 Feb;
:1-36.
PMID: 39910992
Objectives: This paper explores the characteristics of Ghanaian households' consumption of obesogenic versus protective foods, including their retail, distribution, and origin. Design: A household food consumption survey was conducted using...
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Abdool Karim S, Frank T, Khan A, Tlhako M, Joni S, Swart E
BMC Nutr
. 2025 Jan;
11(1):17.
PMID: 39838488
Background: Ultra-processed products (UPPs), high in sugar, fat and sodium, contribute to increasing burdens of obesity and non-communicable diseases in South Africa (SA). Increased consumption and acceptability of UPPs is...
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Ross A, Swart E, Chetty J, Jumat M, Frank T, van Graan A
Public Health Nutr
. 2024 Dec;
:1-14.
PMID: 39721801
Objective: In response to increasing hypertension rates, South Africa implemented a regulation which set a maximum total sodium content for certain packaged food categories. We assess changes in reported sodium...
4.
Nguyen J, Do D, Swart E, Lee T, Peasah S, Patel U, et al.
Med Care
. 2024 Dec;
63(1):1-8.
PMID: 39642014
Objective: This study sought to identify: (1) the demographic and clinical characteristics of very high-cost users (defined as patients with pharmaceutical expenditures that were equal to or greater than the...
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Solomon S, Frank T, Ng S, Swart E
Public Health Nutr
. 2024 Nov;
27():e254.
PMID: 39539015
Objectives: Over recent decades, the commercial ultra-processed food industry has grown, making snacks high in energy, added sugar, saturated fat and sodium affordable and accessible to consumers. Dietary patterns high...
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Frank T, Ng S, Lowery C, Thow A, Swart E
Public Health Nutr
. 2024 Jan;
27(1):e41.
PMID: 38204376
Objective: Given the rapidly changing food environment and proliferation of ultra-processed foods (UPF) in South Africa (SA), this study aimed to critically evaluate dietary quality and adequacy of low-income adults...
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Essman M, Zimmer C, Carpentier F, Swart E, Smith Taillie L
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act
. 2022 Oct;
19(1):136.
PMID: 36307849
Background: In April 2018, South Africa implemented the Health Promotion Levy (HPL), one of the first sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes to be based on each gram of sugar (beyond 4 ...
8.
Bercholz M, Ng S, Stacey N, Swart E
Econ Hum Biol
. 2022 Mar;
46:101136.
PMID: 35358759
Growing global concern about obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases has raised interest in fiscal policy as a tool to reduce this disease burden and its social costs, especially excise taxes...
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Swart E, van der Merwe M, Williams J, Blaauw F, Viljoen J, Schenck C
Nutrients
. 2022 Mar;
14(6).
PMID: 35334828
The purpose of this study was to investigate and describe the nutritional status, dietary intake and dietary diversity of waste pickers in South Africa, a socioeconomically vulnerable group who makes...
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Ross A, Swart E, Frank T, Lowery C, Ng S
Public Health Nutr
. 2022 Mar;
:1-26.
PMID: 35249582
Objective: In response to concern over rising sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption, in April 2018, South Africa became the first Sub-Saharan African country to implement an SSB tax. We assess changes...