Editors
Editor-in-Chief (South Africa)
PROF AJ BRINK
Assistant Editor
Prof JAMES KER (jun)
(South Africa)
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 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 22, NO 3. MAY / JUNE 2011
Editorials
117 HIV infection and cardiovascular risk in black South Africans
CMT Fourie • JM van Rooyen • AE Schutte
119 Cardiovascular disease prevention in women: are we up to date?
N Rapeport
122 The history of the Pan-African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR): the first 30 years,
1981–2011
DA Watkins • SI Omokhodion • BM Mayosi
Cardiovascular Topics
124 Relationship between Tei index of myocardial performance and left ventricular geometry
in Nigerians with systemic hypertension
AA Akintunde • PO Akinwusi • GO Opadijo
128 Isoflurane pre-treatment before cardiopulmonary bypass alleviates neutrophil
accumulation in dog lungs
G-Z Du • H Gao • J Liu • G-S Wu • X He • X-G Zeng • X-Y Hu • X-H Li
134 Is HIV-1 associated with endothelial dysfunction in a population of African ancestry
in South Africa?
C Fourie • J van Rooyen • M Pieters • K Conradie • T Hoekstra • A Schutte
Letter to the Editor
140 The metabolic syndrome, anthropometry and microalbumin
V Wiwanitkit
