Editors
Editor-in-Chief (South Africa)
PROF AJ BRINK
Assistant Editor
Prof JAMES KER (JUN)
Regional Editor
DR A Dzudie
Regional Editor (Kenya)
Dr F Bukachi
Regional Editor (South Africa)
PROF R DELPORT
Topic Editors
Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
DR MM SATHEKGE
Heart Failure
Dr g visagie
Paediatric
dr s brown
Renal Hypertension
dr brian rayner
Surgical
dr f aziz
Adult Surgery
dr j rossouw
Electrophysiology and Pacing
dr a okreglicki
Epidemiology and
Preventionist
dr ap kengne
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
AFRICA
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED AND SABINET
VOL 23, NO 1. FEBRUARY 2012
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
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Editorial
AJ Brink
Cardiovascular Topics
5 The 30-year cardiovascular risk profile of South Africans with diagnosed diabetes,
undiagnosed diabetes, pre-diabetes or normoglycaemia: the Bellville, South Africa
pilot study
TE Matsha • MS Hassan • M Kidd • RR Erasmus
12 Contractile effect of
Sclerocarya birrea
(A Rich) Hochst (Anacardiaceae) (Marula)
leaf aqueous extract on rat and rabbit isolated vascular smooth muscles
T Mawoza • Jao Ojewole • Pmo Owira
18 Amlodipine attenuates oxidative stress in the heart and blood of high-cholesterol
diet rabbits
I Salehi • M Mohammadi • F Mirzaei • Fg Soufi
23 Interaction between dyslipidaemia, oxidative stress and inflammatory response in
patients with angiographically proven coronary artery disease
D Tayal • B Goswami • S Tyagi • M Chaudhary • V Mallika
28 Cardiovascular, cortisol and coping responses in urban Africans: the SAPBA study
D Meyburgh • L Malan • JM van Rooyen • JC Potgieter
34 Prediction of early postoperative atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: is it possible?
The value of interatrial conduction time for the prediction of early postoperative atrial
fibrillation using intra-operative transoesophageal echocardiography
M Karaca • Mi Demirbas • S Biceroglu • A Çevik • Y Cetin • M Arpaz • H Yilmaz
37 An evaluation of ankle–brachial blood pressure index in adult Nigerians with sickle cell
anaemia
NI Oguanobi • Bjc Onwubere • Og Ibegbulam • So Ike • Ec Ejim • O Agwu
