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
SUBJECT 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 7. AUGUST 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
From the Editor’s DesK
364 New impact factor and PubMed Central service from the
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
AJ Brink
Cardiovascular Topics
365 Management of acute coronary syndrome in South Africa: insights from the ACCESS
(Acute Coronary Events – a Multinational Survey of Current Management Strategies) registry
C Schamroth • ACCESS South Africa investigators
371 Social drift of cardiovascular disease risk factors in Africans from the North West
Province of South Africa: the PURE study
PT Pisa • R Behanan • HH Vorster • A Kruger
379 Target-organ damage and cardiovascular complications in hypertensive Nigerian Yoruba
adults: a cross-sectional study
OO Oladapo • L Salako • L Sadiq • K Shoyinka • K Adedapo • AO Falase
384 William Nelson ECG Quiz
385 Prevalence of cardiac dyssynchrony and correlation with atrio-ventricular block and QRS
width in dilated cardiomyopathy: an echocardiographic study
JB Anzouan-Kacou • MP Ncho-Mottoh • C Konin • AR N’Guetta • KA Ekou • BJ Koffi • KE Soya •
ME Tano • R Abouo-N’Dori
389 Different lipid profiles according to ethnicity in the Heart of Soweto study cohort of
de novo
presentations of heart disease
K Sliwa • JG Lyons • MJ Carrington • S Lecour • AD Marais • FJ Raal • S Stewart
396 Effect of perindopril on pulse-wave velocity and endothelin-1 in black hypertensive patients
E Osuch • WJ du Plooy • SH du Plooy • LH Böhmer
400 The effect of the metabolic syndrome on the risk and outcome of coronary artery bypass
graft surgery
MJ Swart • WH de Jager • JT Kemp • PJ Nel • SL van Staden • G Joubert
