Editors
Acting Editor in Chief
(South Africa)
Prof PA 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
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
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)
AFRICA
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
VOL 24, NO 3. APRIL 2013
EditoriaL
51 Acute ischaemic stroke: highlighting the need for early intervention
G Modi
Cardiovascular Topics
52 The prevalence and distribution of non-communicable diseases and their risk factors in
Kasese district, Uganda
CK Mondo • MA Otim • G Akol • R Musoke • J Orem
58 Modulation of haemodynamics, endogeneous antioxidant enzymes, and
pathophysiological changes by selective inhibition of angiotensin II type 1 receptors in
pressure-overload rats
G Moinuddin • MN Inamdar • KS Kulkarni • C Kulkarni
66 Hypertension and associated factors in older adults in South Africa
K Peltzer • N Phaswana-Mafuya
72 Neonatal circulatory failure due to acute hypertensive crisis: clinical and
echocardiographic clues
J Louw • S Brown • L Thewissen • A Smits • B Eyskens • R Heying • B Cools • E Levtchenko •
K Allegaert • M Gewillig
76 Decreased vascular contractility induced by hemin is associated with a reduced
rho-kinase activity
B Awede • M-C Lemaire • P Bonnet • V Eder
80 Cardiovascular complications in newly diagnosed rheumatic heart disease patients at
Mulago Hospital, Uganda
E Okello • Z Wanzhu • C Musoke • A Twalib • B Kakande • P Lwabi • NB Wilson • CK Mondo •
R Odoi-Adome • J Freers
