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ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
www.cvja.co.zaCONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
Vol 26, No 2, MARCH/APRIL 2015
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
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From the Editor’s Desk
P Commerford
Cardiovascular Topics
52 Association of
Helicobacter pylori
infection with the metabolic syndrome among
HIV-infected black Africans receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy
B Longo-Mbenza • T Apalata • M Longokolo • MM Mambimbi • E Mokondjimobe • T Gombet •
B Ellenga • B Buassa-bu-Tsumbu • GM Dipa • EL Luila • AN Okwe
57 Knowledge, attitude and behaviour regarding dietary salt intake among medical
students in Angola
P Magalhães • EJR Sanhangala • IM Dombele • HSN Ulundo • DP Capingana • ABT Silva
63 Diagnostic disparity and identification of two
TNNI3
gene mutations, one novel and one
arising
de novo
, in South African patients with restrictive cardiomyopathy and focal
ventricular hypertrophy
JM Mouton • AS Pellizzon • A Goosen • CJ Kinnear • PG Herbst • PA Brink • JC Moolman-Smook
Review Article
70 HIV-associated large-vessel vasculopathy: a review of the current and emerging
clinicopathological spectrum in vascular surgical practice
B Pillay • PK Ramdial • DP Naidoo
Conference Proceedings
82 Development of the roadmap and guidelines for the prevention and management of
high blood pressure in Africa: proceedings of the PASCAR Hypertension Task Force
meeting: Nairobi, Kenya, 27 October 2014
A Dzudie • D Ojji • BC Anisiuba • BAS Abdou • R Cornick • A Damasceno • A Kane • AO
Mocumbi • A Mohamed • G Nel • E Ogola • B Onwubere • H Otieno • B Rainer • A Schutte •
IT Ali • M Twagirumukiza • N Poulter • B Mayosi • on behalf of the PASCAR Hypertension Task
Force members