A high burden of adverse life events and poor coping mechanisms experienced by urban-dwelling black South Africans

• Nasheeta Peer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nasheeta.peer@mrc.ac.za

  Affiliations Non-communicable Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), Durban, South Africa, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town (UCT), Cape Town, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2131-8344

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• Carl Lombard,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Biostatistics Unit, SAMRC, Tygerberg, South Africa, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

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• Krisela Steyn †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Naomi Levitt

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town (UCT), Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Medicine, Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa

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