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 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 4. JULY / AUGUST 2010
Editorial
183 The cost of coping: a cardio-neuro-metabolic risk for black South Africans?
L Malan • NT Malan • A Du Plessis • MP Wissing • JC Potgieter • YK Seedat
From the Editor’s Desk
185 Advance publications
AJ Brink
Cardiovascular Topics
186 Assessment of right ventricular systolic function using tricuspid annular-plane systolic
excursion in Nigerians with systemic hypertension
KM Karaye • AG Habib • S Mohammed • M Rabiu • MN Shehu
190 News from the American Diabetes Association (ADA): Update from Orlando, USA,
25–29 June 2010
J Aalbers
192 Value of trans-oesophageal echocardiography as a method of encouraging patients with
chronic atrial fibrillation to use anticoagulation therapy
A Bakalli • L Kamberi • G Dragusha • N Zeqiri • F Gashi • L Prekpalaj
196 Concurrent resistance and aerobic training as protection against heart disease
I Shaw • BS Shaw • GA Brown • JF Cilliers
200 Prevalence of microalbuminuria in hypertensive patients and its associated
cardiovascular risk in clinical cardiology: Moroccan results of the global i-SEARCH
survey – a sub-analysis of a survey with 21 050 patients in 26 countries worldwide
R Habbal • AR Sekhri • M Volpe • i-Search Investigators
206 Coping and metabolic syndrome indicators in urban black South African men:
the SABPA study
A Du Plessis • L Malan • NT Malan
