Editors
Editor-in-Chief (South Africa)
PROF AJ BRINK
Assistant Editor
Prof JAMES KER (JUN)
Regional Editor
DR A Dzudie
Regional Editor (Kenya)
Dr F Bukachi
Regional Editor (South Africa)
PROF R DELPORT
Topic Editors
Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
DR MM SATHEKGE
Heart Failure
Dr g visagie
Paediatric
dr s brown
Renal Hypertension
dr brian rayner
Surgical
dr f aziz
Adult Surgery
dr j rossouw
Electrophysiology and Pacing
dr a okreglicki
Epidemiology and
Preventionist
dr ap kengne
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
AFRICA
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED AND SABINET
VOL 22, NO 5. SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2011
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
233
from the editor’s Desk
AJ Brink
Letter to the Editor
233 Raynaud’s phenomenon
HD Solomons
Cardiovascular Topics
234 CEPHEUS SA: a South African survey on the under-treatment of hypercholesterolaemia
F Raal • C Schamroth • D Blom • J Marx • M Rajput • M Haus • R Hussain • F Cassim •
M Nortjé • G Vandenhoven • A-M Temmerman
241 The R563Q mutation of the epithelial sodium channel beta-subunit is associated with
hypertension
ESW Jones • EP Owen • JS Davidson • L van der Merwe • BL Rayner
245 Echocardiographic findings in children with Marfan syndrome
O Ozdemi̇
r • R Olgunturk • S Kula • FS Tunaogl
249 The relationship between indices of iron status and selected anthropometric
cardiovascular disease risk markers in an African population: the THUSA study
OR Aderibigbe • PT Pisa • RL Mamabolo • HS Kruger • HH Vorster
257 Effect of short-term isometric handgrip training on blood pressure in middle-aged
females
J Mortimer • AJ Mckune
261 Global cardiovascular risk profiles of untreated hypertensives in an urban, developing
community in Africa
MJ Maseko • GR Norton • OH Majane • N Molebatsi • AJ Woodiwiss
