Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 31 No 3 (May/June 2020)

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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 31, No 3, MAY/JUNE 2020
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
113 Cardiovascular care in sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 crisis: lessons from the
global experience
K Lukhna • B Cupido • J Hitzeroth • A Chin • M Ntsekhe
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
116 The effects of aquatic and land exercise on resting blood pressure and post-exercise
hypotension response in elderly hypertensives
FADM Júnior • SG Gomes • FF da Silva • PM Souza • EC Oliveira • DB Coelho •
RM Nascimento-Neto • W Lima • LK Becker
123 Cardiovascular assessment after treatment for retinopathy of prematurity:
a comparative study between anti-VGEF agent (aflibercept) and laser
E Cilsal • EA Sukgen
130 A primary aldosteronism-like phenotype identified with the aldosterone-to-angiotensin
II ratio in black men: the SABPA study
JM van Rooyen • M Poglitsch • HW Huisman • LF Gafane-Matemane • Y Breet • L Malan
136 The effect of beta-blockers on foetal birth weight in pregnancies in women with
structural heart disease: a prospective cohort study
J Baard • F Azibani • A Osman • W Dowling • B Rayner • K Sliwa
142 Prevalence of hypertension and selected cardiovascular risk factors among
adolescents in selected rural and urban secondary schools in Botswana
M Mokgwathi • JC Mwita
147 Association between galectin-3 levels and isolated coronary artery ectasia
G Aciksari • T Uygun • A Atici • K Aciksari • AE Toprak • I Onur • Y Yılmaz • ME Cekin •
E Yalçınkaya • Er Aydin • M Caliskan