Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 32 No 4 (JULY/AUGUST 2021)

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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 32, No 4, JULY/AUGUST 2021
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
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
177 Covid-19 and cardiovascular disease
PJ Commerford
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
178 Value of peripheral blood neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio for clinical diagnosis and
prognosis of elderly patients with chronic heart failure and atrial fibrillation
C Yang • H Yang • S Feng • J Qin
182 Assessing volumetric changes in abdominal aortic aneurysms following endovascular
repair
Y Gunerhan • M Isik • Y Dereli • O Tanyeli • C Kadıyoran • MS Iyisoy • N Gormus
188 An epidemiological study to define the recent clinical characteristics and outcomes of
infective endocarditis in southern Turkey
A Acibuca • M Yilmaz • S Okar • E Kursun • O Acilar • A Tekin • YZ Demiroglu • IH Muderrisoglu
193 Experience of cardiac implantable electronic device lead removal from a South African
tertiary referral centre
P Mkoko • NX Mdakane • G Govender • J Scherman • A Chin
198 Knowledge, attitude and practice towards therapeutic lifestyle changes in the
management of hypertension in Khartoum State
AA Abdalla
204 The discrepancy of aromatase expression in epicardial adipose tissue between CHD
and non-CHD patients
Y Li • W Cheng • B Zhao • D Ma • X Wei • S Zhang
208 Long-term blood pressure trajectories and associations with age and body mass index
among urban women in South Africa
ME Wandai • SOM Manda • J Aagaard-Hansen • SA Norris