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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, H3Africa Supplement, 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
EditoriaL
S3 H3Africa comes of age
GA Mensah • EK Peprah • UKA Sampson • RS Cooper
Cardiovascular Topics
S6 Mortality from cardiovascular diseases in sub-Saharan Africa, 1990–2013:
a systematic analysis of data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
GA Mensah • GA Roth • UKA Sampson • AE Moran • VL Feigin • MH Forouzanfar •
M Naghavi • CJL Murray • for the GBD 2013 Mortality and Causes of Death collaborators
S11 Familial clustering of risk factors for cardiovascular disease among first-degree
relatives of patients with chronic kidney disease in a sub-Saharan African population
Y Raji • O Mabayoje • T Bello
S15 Strategic investments in non-communicable diseases (NCD) research in Africa:
the GSK Africa NCD Open Lab
MD Hall • AM Dufton • RM Katso • SA Gatsi • PM Williams • ME Strange
S18 NHLBI perspectives on the growth of heart, lung, blood and sleep conditions in Africa:
global and domestic insights, challenges and opportunities
GH Gibbons • UKA Sampson • NL Cook • GA Mensah