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
SUBJECT 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 5. JUNE 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
241 New global target on non-communicable diseases: a call to action for the global
cardiovascular disease community
J Ralston
Cardiovascular Topics
245 Feeding the emergence of advanced heart disease in Soweto: a nutritional survey of
black African patients with heart failure
S Pretorius • K Sliwa • V Ruf • K Walker • S Stewart
252 Treatment of subaortic stenosis in hearts with single-ventricle physiology
B Saritas • E Ozker • C Vuran • Ç Gunaydin • C Ayabakan • R Turkoz
255 Early diastolic functional abnormalities in normotensive offspring of Nigerian
hypertensives
AM Adeoye • AA Adebiyi • OO Oladapo • OS Ogah • A Aje • DB Ojji • AK Adebayo •
KC Ochulor • EO Enakpene • AO Falase
260 Obesity and blood pressure level of adolescents in Abeokuta, Nigeria
IO Senbanjo • KA Oshikoya
265 Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension among adults 50 years
and older in Dakar, Senegal
E Macia • P Duboz • L Gueye
270 Control of cardiovascular risk in black Africans with type 2 diabetes in Senegal
(Contrôle du risque cardio-vasculaire chez les diabétiques de type 2 noirs africains
au Sénégal)
NV Yaméogo • A Mbaye • M Ndour • LJ Kagambega • H Diomande • R Hakim • A Thiam •
A Diallo • SN Diop • D Diagne • B Diack • A Kane
274 Robotically controlled ablation for atrial fibrillation: the first real-world experience in
Africa with the Hansen robotic system
F Lorgat • E Pudney • H van Deventer • S Chitsaz
