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Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
www.cvja.co.zaCONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
Vol 30, No 4, JULY/AUGUST 2019
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
EDITORIAL
191 Searching the lipidome for answers to prevent and treat non-communicable diseases
L van den Berg, C Walsh
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
193 Ellisras Longitudinal Study 2017: Elevated serum levels of carboxymethyl-lysine,
an advanced glycation end-product, are associated with higher odds of developing
endothelial dysfunction in black South African patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
(ELS 29)
MA Mogale • CM Mhlanga • SS Gololo • A Adu
198 Performance of HAS-BLED and CRUSADE risk scores for the prediction of
haemorrhagic events in patients with stable coronary artery disease
E Yildirim • O Uku • MN Bilen • O Secen
203 Atherosclerotic plaque in HIV-positive patients presenting with acute coronary
syndromes
A Vachiat • K McCutcheon • N Tsabedze • D Zachariah • P Manga
208 Natural cocoa inhibits maternal hypercholesterolaemia-induced atherogenesis in
rabbit pups
RM Blay • SK Adjenti • KK Adutwum-Ofosu • BA Hottor • J Ahenkorah • B Arko-Boham • FK Addai
216 Unmasking right ventricular dysfunction in chronic rheumatic mitral regurgitation
R Meel • F Peters • E Libhaber • MR Essop
222 The effect of perindopril on echocardiographic parameters, NYHA functional class and
serum NT-proBNP values in patients with diastolic heart failure
U Yuksek • L Cerit • NK Eren • O Ergene
228 Plasma phospholipid fatty acid patterns are associated with adiposity and the
metabolic syndrome in black South Africans: a cross-sectional study
AA Ojwang • HS Kruger • M Zec • C Ricci • M Pieters • IM Kruger • E Wentzel-Viljoen • CM Smuts