“…In South Africa and some other countries in SubSaharan Africa, among Africans, changes in diet and other environmental factors particularly among urban dwellers have evoked large rises in the occurrences of some chronic disorders and disease of lifestyle but hardly any rises in others. Thus, major increases have occurred in obesity in women, hypertension and diabetes in both sexes and cerebrovascular disease (Walker 1996;Walker & Segal 1997). Judging from the experiences of the various populations described, it seems likely that, within the next generation, a marked rise in the occurrence of Coronary Heart Disease in urban African population would be inevitable (Walker et al, 2002).…”