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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)
Publishing Consultant
Mike Gibbs
AFRICA
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
www.cvja.co.zaCONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
VOL 24, NO 2. MARCH 2013
In Memoriam
3 Professor Andries Jacob Brink
L Opie
4 Tribute to the late Professor Oluwole Ademola Adebo
SI Omokhodion
Editorial
5 Impact of HIV on the incidence of pre-eclampsia
J Moodley
Cardiovascular Topics
6 Clinical characteristics and outcomes of atrial fibrillation and flutter at the Aga Khan
University Hospital, Nairobi
J Shavadia • G Yonga • H Otieno • A Jinah • A Moriasi • S Mwanzi
10 Cardioprotective and anti-hypertensive effects of
Prosopis glandulosa
in rat models of
pre-diabetes
B Huisamen • C George • D Dietrich • S Genade • A Lochner
17 Low prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm in the Seychelles population aged 50 to
65 years
P Yerly • G Madeleine • W Riesen • P Bovet
19 Comparative evaluation of warfarin utilisation in two primary healthcare clinics in the
Cape Town area
XW Njovane • PS Fasinu • B Rosenkranz