Editors
Editor-in-Chief (South Africa)
PROF AJ BRINK
Assistant Editor
Prof JAMES KER (JUN)
Regional Editor (Cameroon)
Prof JC Mbanya
Regional Editor (Kenya)
Dr F Bukachi
Regional Editor (South Africa)
PROF R DELPORT
Editorial Board
prof PA Brink
Experimental & Laboratory Cardiology
PROF V CORFIELD
Molecular 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)
Publishing Consultant
Mike Gibbs
AFRICA
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED AND SABINET
VOL 21, NO 2. MARCH / APRIL 2010
Editorial
69 Bioequivalence: tried and tested
R Schall • L Endrenyi
Cardiovascular Topics
72 AMP kinase activation and glut4 translocation in isolated cardiomyocytes
I Webster • SO Friedrich • A Lochner • B Huisamen
79 Correlates of left ventricular mass in hypertensive Nigerians: an echocardiographic study
OS Ogah • A Bamgboye
86 Medication adherence, self-care behaviour and knowledge on heart failure in urban South
Africa: the Heart of Soweto study
V Ruf • S Stewart • S Pretorius • M Kubheka • C Lautenschläger • P Presek • K Sliwa
93 Blood pressure response to an exercise treadmill test, and echocardiographic left
ventricular geometry in Nigerian normotensive diabetics
EA Ajayi • MO Balogun • OA Akintomide • RA Adebayo • OE Ajayi • RT Ikem • SA Ogunyemi •
AT Oyedeji
97 Factors associated with mortality when chronic beta-blocker therapy is withdrawn in the
peri-operative period in vascular surgical patients: a matched case–control study
BM Biccard
103 Inflammation and dyslipidaemia: a possible interplay between established risk factors in
North Indian males with coronary artery disease
B Goswami • M Rajappa • B Singh • PC Ray • S Kumar • V Mallika
