Contributors
Phyllis Tawiah:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2641-8865
Role: ConceptualizationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Paulina Boadiwaa Mensah:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0570-5662
Role: Formal analysisRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Solomon Gyabaah:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5941-9733
Role: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Atinuke Olusola Adebanji: Role: Formal analysisRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Emmanuel Konadu:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7682-766X
Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Writing – review & editing
Isaac Amoah:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5342-5825
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Mario Ulises Pérez-Zepeda: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLOS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
18
April
2024
Publication date Collection: 2024
Volume: 19
Issue: 4
Electronic Location Identifier: e0295520
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences,
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
[2
]
University Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
[3
]
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana
[4
]
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science
and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
[5
]
School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi,
Ghana
[6
]
Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science
and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Instituto Nacional de Geriatria, MEXICO
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-23-09911
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295520
PMC ID: 11025960
PubMed ID: 38635683
SO-VID: 4be2c01c-ea69-4c29-8c71-7f5be41f58b2
Copyright © © 2024 Tawiah et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 25
April
2023
Date
accepted
: 22
November
2023
Page count
Figures: 5,
Tables: 4,
Pages: 19
Funding
Funded by:
funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000049, National Institute on Aging;
Award ID: grants R01-AG034479 and R21-AG034263
The authors would like to state that this work was a secondary analysis of the WHO
SAGE WAVE 1 data. Even though funding was provided for the data collection, the authors
of this manuscript received no funding for this present work.
Categories
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
People and Places
Subject:
Geographical Locations
Subject:
Africa
Subject:
Ghana
Subject:
People and Places
Subject:
Population Groupings
Subject:
Age Groups
Subject:
Adults
Subject:
Elderly
Subject:
People and places
Subject:
Geographical locations
Subject:
Africa
Subject:
South Africa
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Physiological Parameters
Subject:
Body Weight
Subject:
Body Mass Index
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Physiological Parameters
Subject:
Body Weight
Subject:
Obesity
Subject:
Earth Sciences
Subject:
Geography
Subject:
Human Geography
Subject:
Urban Geography
Subject:
Urban Areas
Subject:
Social Sciences
Subject:
Human Geography
Subject:
Urban Geography
Subject:
Urban Areas
Subject:
Earth Sciences
Subject:
Geography
Subject:
Geographic Areas
Subject:
Urban Areas
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Vascular Medicine
Subject:
Angina
Subject:
People and Places
Subject:
Population Groupings
Subject:
Age Groups
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