Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 28 No 3 (May/June 2017)

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ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
Vol 28, No 3, MAY/JUNE 2017
Editors
Editor-in-Chief
(South Africa)
Prof Pat Commerford
Assistant Editor
Prof JAMES KER (JUN)
Regional Editor
DR A Dzudie
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)
SUBJECT Editors
Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
DR MM SATHEKGE
Heart Failure
Dr g visagie
Paediatric
dr s brown
Paediatric Surgery
Dr Darshan Reddy
Renal Hypertension
dr brian rayner
Surgical
dr f aziz
Adult Surgery
dr j rossouw
Epidemiology and Preventionist
dr ap kengne
Pregnancy-associated Heart
Disease
Prof K Sliwa-hahnle
Editorial
139 Radiation safety: time to act
SC Brown
Cardiovascular Topics
141 Resveratrol did not alter blood pressure in rats with nitric oxide synthase-inhibited
hypertension
M Aydin • B Gungor • AS Akdur • HE Aksulu • C Sılan • I Susam • AK Cabuk • G Cabuk
147 Prevalence of selected cardiometabolic risk factors among adults in urban and
semi-urban hospitals in four sub-Saharan African countries
S Kingue • S Rakotoarimanana • N Rabearivony • FL Bompera
154 Assessment of myocardial repolarisation parameters in patients with familial
Mediterranean fever
K Karaman • M Karayakalı • E Erken • A Demirta ş • M Öztürk • F Altunka ş • A Arısoy •
OE Turan • K Ceyhan • A Çelik
159 Saliva/serum ghrelin, obestatin and homocysteine levels in patients with ischaemic
heart disease
N Kilic • N Dagli • S Aydin • F Erman • Y Bek • O Akin • SS Kilic • HK Erdemli • H Alacam
165 The effects of treatment in patients with childhood asthma on the elastic properties
of the aorta
O Bektaş • ZY Günaydin • A Karagöz • R Akgedik • A Bayramoğ lu • A Kaya
170 Training community health workers to screen for cardiovascular disease risk in the
community: experiences from Cape Town, South Africa
T Puoane • S Abrahams-Gessel • TA Gaziano • N Levitt
176 Effects of Ramadan intermittent fasting on North African children’s heart rate and
oxy-haemoglobin saturation at rest and during sub-maximal exercise
MA Fenneni • I Latiri • A Aloui • S Rouatbi • K Chamari • H Ben Saad