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Editors
Editor in Chief
(South Africa)
Prof Pat Commerford
Assistant Editor
Prof JAMES KER (JUN)
Regional Editor
DR A Dzudie
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)
SUBJECT Editors
Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
DR MM SATHEKGE
Heart Failure
Dr g visagie
Paediatric
dr s brown
Paediatric Surgery
Dr Darshan Reddy
Renal Hypertension
dr brian rayner
Surgical
dr f aziz
Adult Surgery
dr j rossouw
Epidemiology and Preventionist
dr ap kengne
Pregnancy-associated Heart
Disease
Prof K Sliwa-hahnle
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
Vol 26, No 1, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015
3 From the Editor’s Desk
P Commerford
Cardiovascular Topics
4 In vitro effects of sodium nitroprusside and leptin on norepinephrine-induced
vasoconstriction in human internal mammary artery
O Burma • M Ozcan • E Kaca • A Uysal • E Şahna • A Ayar
8 Abdominal aortic stiffness as a marker of atherosclerosis in childhood-onset asthma:
a case–control study
Z Ülge • F Gülen • RA Özyürek
13 Is the relationship of body mass index to severity of coronary artery disease different
from that of waist-to-hip ratio and severity of coronary artery disease? Paradoxical
findings
AF Zand Parsa • B Jahanshahi
17 Effect of hypothermia in patients undergoing simultaneous carotid endarterectomy and
coronary artery bypass graft surgery
Y Ozen • E Aksoy • S Sarikaya • E Aydin • O Altas • MB Rabus • K Kirali
21 Circulating adhesion molecules and arterial stiffness
ID Kilic • G Findikoglu • YI Alihanoglu • BS Yildiz • S Uslu • S Rota • H Evrengul
25 Redo off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting via a left thoracotomy
I Duvan, • S Ates • BE Onuk • M Kurtoglu • HY Karagoz
29 Social support and management of hypertension in south-west Nigeria
PE Osamor
34 Comparison between superficial femoral artery stenting and bypass surgery in severe
lower-limb ischaemia: a retrospective study
J Islam • JV Robbs