Editors
Editor-in-Chief (South Africa)
PROF AJ BRINK
Assistant Editor
Prof JAMES KER (JUN)
Regional Editor (Cameroon)
Prof JC Mbanya
Regional Editor (Kenya)
Dr F Bukachi
Regional Editor (South Africa)
PROF R DELPORT
Editorial Board
prof PA Brink
Experimental & Laboratory Cardiology
PROF V CORFIELD
Molecular Cardiology
PROF R DELPORT
Chemical Pathology
PROF MR ESSOP
Haemodynamics, Heart Failure & Valvular
Heart Disease
DR OB FAMILONI
Clinical Cardiology
DR V GRIGOROV
Invasive Cardiology & Heart Failure
PROF J KER (SEN)
Hypertension, Cardiomyopathy,
Cardiovascular Physiology
DR J LAWRENSON
Paediatric Heart Disease
PROF A LOCHNER
Biochemistry/Laboratory Science
PROF BM MAYOSI
Chronic Rheumatic Heart Disease
DR MT MPE
Cardiomyopathy
PROF DP NAIDOO
Echocardiography
PROF B RAYNER
Hypertension/Society
PROF MM SATHEKGE
Nuclear Medicine/Society
PROF YK SEEDAT
Diabetes & Hypertension
PROF H DU T THERON
Invasive Cardiology
International Advisory
Board
PROF DAVID CELEMAJER
Australia (Clinical Cardiology)
PROF KEITH COPELIN FERDINAND
USA (General Cardiology)
DR SAMUEL KINGUE
Cameroon (General Cardiology)
DR GEORGE A MENSAH
USA (General Cardiology)
PROF WILLIAM NELSON
USA (Electrocardiology)
DR ULRICH VON OPPEL
Wales (Cardiovascular Surgery)
PROF PETER SCHWARTZ
Italy (Dysrhythmias)
PROF ERNST VON SCHWARZ
USA (Interventional Cardiology)
Publishing Consultant
Mike Gibbs
AFRICA
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED AND SABINET
VOL 21, NO 1. JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2010
Editorial
3 Do inhibitors of the renin–angiotensin system prevent chronic kidney disease?
B Rayner
Cardiovascular Topics
9 The simplified modification-of-diet-in-renal-disease equation as a predictor of renal
function after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
MJ Swart • AM Bekker • JJ Malan • A Meiring • Z Swart • G Joubert
13 Tracking of lipids in schoolchildren: a four-year follow-up, population-based study in
Sousse (Tunisia)
I Harrabi • J Maatoug • R Gaha • K Limam • AS Essoussi • H Ghannem
17 The effect of ambient temperature on blood pressure in a rural West African adult
population: a cross-sectional study
SK Kunutsor • JW Powles
21 Relationship between left ventricular geometric pattern and systolic and diastolic
function in treated Nigerian hypertensives
AA Akintunde • OB Familoni • PO Akinwusi • OG Opadijo
26 A prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors among a rural Yoruba south-western
Nigerian population: a population-based survey
OO Oladapo • L Salako • O Sodiq • K Shoyinka • K Adedapo • AO Falase
32 Cardiac abnormalities and facial anthropometric measurements in children from the
Free State and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa with chromosome 22q11.2
microdeletion
SC Brown • BD Henderson • DA Buys • M Theron • MA Long • F Smit
