Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 28 No 6 (November/December 2017)

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CONTENTS
Vol 28, No 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017
377 A survey of non-communicable diseases and their risk factors among university
employees: a single institutional study
EI Agaba • MO Akanbi • PA Agaba • AN Ocheke • ZM Gimba • S Daniyam • EN Okeke
384 Letter to the editor
385 Relationship between coronary tortuosity and plateletcrit coronary tortuosity and plateletcrit
L Cerit • Z Cerit
389 The effect of iloprost and sildenafil, alone and in combination, on myocardial
ischaemia, and nitric oxide and irisin levels
S Aydin • T Kuloglu • S Aydin • M Yardim • D Azboy • Z Temizturk • AK Kalkan • MN Eren
REVIEW ARTICLE
397 The effect of lifestyle interventions on maternal body composition during pregnancy
in developing countries: a systematic review
ED Watson • S Macaulay • K Lamont • PJ-L Gradidge • S Pretorius • NJ Crowther • E Libhaber
IMAGES IN CARDIOLOGY
404 Unusually aggressive immature neo-intimal hyperplasia causing in-stent restenosis
K McCutcheon • AS Triantafyllis • J Bennett • T Adriaenssens
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
406 NT-pro BNP and plasma-soluble ST2 as promising biomarkers for hypertension,
hypertensive heart disease and heart failure in sub-Saharan Africa
A Dzudie • BS Dzekem • AP Kengne
408 congress NEWS
PUBLISHED ONLINE (Available on and in PubMed)
CASE REPORTS
e1 Efficacy of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in a sub-aortic aneurysm case
R Meel • R Nethononda • F Peters • M Essop
e4 Miller–Fisher syndrome after coronary artery bypass surgery
M Aldag • S Albeyoglu • U Ciloglu • H Kutlu • L Ceylan