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- ItemOpen AccessEthnic-specific associations between abdominal and gluteal fat distribution and the metabolic complications of obesity : implications for the use of liposuction(2011) Hayes, Philip Michael; Goedecke, JuliaMore than three-quarters (77%) of the 40.5 million people living in South Africa are black African, of which more than 40% are urbanised. Black African women living in urban areas have a significantly higher prevalence (62%) of overweight than urban black males (28%) or white females (53%). It was previously thought that obesity in black South African women was not associated with deleterious metabolic sequelae and was termed "healthy" obesity...