Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 30 No 1 (January/February 2019)

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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 30, No 1, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019
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
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
3 Right-sided hearts
C Greig • DG Buys • SC Brown
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
5 A retrospective review of right-sided hearts at a South African tertiary hospital
N Beringer • A Cilliers
9 Clinical and echocardiographic correlates of pulmonary hypertension among heart
failure patients in Lagos, south-western Nigeria
OA Kushimo • AC Mbakwem • JNA Ajuluchukwu • CE Amadi
15 Management of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in South Africa:
the International ChoLesterol management Practice Study (ICLPS)
DJ Blom • F Raal • A Amod • P Naidoo • Y-y (E) Lai • for the ICLPS SA study group
24 Ellisras Longitudinal Study 2017: The relationship between waist circumference,
waist-to-hip ratio, skinfolds and blood pressure among young adults in Ellisras,
South Africa (ELS 14)
RB Sebati • KD Monyeki • MS Monyeki • B Motloutsi • AL Toriola • MJL Monyeki
29 Outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndrome in a referral hospital in
sub-Saharan Africa
MH Varwani • M Jeilan • M Ngunga • A Barasa
34 Aldosterone and renin in relation to surrogate measures of sympathetic activity:
the SABPA study
LF Gafane-Matemane • JM van Rooyen • R Schutte • AE Schutte
41 The value of community outreach for a University: a synthesis of trends in higher
education. The case of the University of Limpopo (ELS 45)
H Siweya • KD Monyeki