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 23, NO 2. MARCH 2012
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
Editorial
61 New antithrombotic drugs: a revolution in stroke management
A Bryer
Cardiovascular Topics
63 Effect of sequential coronary artery bypass venous grafting on right ventricular functions
assessed by tissue Doppler echocardiography
G Ozerdem • N Katrancioglu • B Candemir • E Saricam • O Ozturk • O Berkan
67 Heart rate variability in physically active individuals: reliability and gender
characteristics
T Sookan • AJ Mckune
73 Left ventricular hypertrophy and geometry in type 2 diabetes patients with chronic kidney
disease. An echocardiographic study
MP Bayauli • FB Lepira • PK Kayembe • JR M’buyamba-Kabangu
78 The relationship between cortisol, C-reactive protein and hypertension in African and
Causcasian women: the POWIRS study
CM Tolmay • L Malan • JM van Rooyen
85 End digit preference in blood pressure measurement in a hypertension specialty clinic in
southwest Nigeria
OE Ayodele • EO Sanya • OO Okunola • AA Akintunde
90 Echocardiographic diagnoses in HIV-infected patients presenting with cardiac symptoms
at Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
P Chillo • M Bakari • J Lwakatare
98 Experimental malaria: the
in vitro
and
in vivo
blood pressure paradox
CR Nwokocha • MI Nwokocha • DU Owu • IO Ajayi • AB Ebeigbe
