TY - JOUR AU - Agyemang, Charles AU - Meeks, Karlijn AU - Beune, Erik AU - Owusu-Dabo, Ellis AU - Mockenhaupt, Frank P. AU - Addo, Juliet AU - de Graft Aikins, Ama AU - Bahendeka, Silver AU - Danquah, Ina AU - Schulze, Matthias B. AU - Spranger, Joachim AU - Burr, Tom AU - Agyei-Baffour, Peter AU - Amoah, Stephen K. AU - Galbete, Cecilia AU - Henneman, Peter AU - Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin AU - Nicolaou, Mary AU - Adeyemo, Adebowale AU - van Straalen, Jan AU - Smeeth, Liam AU - Stronks, Karien PY - 2016 DA - 2016/10/21 TI - Obesity and type 2 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africans – Is the burden in today’s Africa similar to African migrants in Europe? The RODAM study JO - BMC Medicine SP - 166 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Rising rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) are impending major threats to the health of African populations, but the extent to which they differ between rural and urban settings in Africa and upon migration to Europe is unknown. We assessed the burden of obesity and T2D among Ghanaians living in rural and urban Ghana and Ghanaian migrants living in different European countries. SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0709-0 DO - 10.1186/s12916-016-0709-0 ID - Agyemang2016 ER -