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The association of 25(OH)D with blood pressure, pulse pressure and carotid–radial pulse wave velocity in African women
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
High susceptibility of the African population to develop cardiovascular disease obliges us to investigate possible
contributing risk factors. Our aim was to determine whether low 25(OH)D status is associated with increased ...
Cohort profile: sympathetic activity and ambulatory blood pressure in Africans (SABPA) prospective cohort study
(Oxford Univ Press, 2015)
Adapting to an over–demanding stressful urban environment may exhaust the psychophysiological resources to cope with these demands, and lead to sympathetic nervous system dysfunction. The evidence that an urban–dwelling ...
Association between nutritional awareness and diet quality: evidence from the observation of cardiovascular risk factors in Luxembourg (ORISCAV–LUX) study
(Mdpi Ag, 2015)
This study examined the association between nutritional awareness and diet quality, as indicated by energy density, dietary diversity and adequacy to achieve dietary recommendations, while considering the potentially ...
Validation of the Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI) in a multicultural context: the SABPA study
(UP, 2018)
The aim of this study was to validate the Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI) for use in a South African context. The process of
scale validation also sheds significant light on this culturally diverse group of participants’ ...
Blood pressure variability is significantly associated with ECG left ventricular mass in normotensive Africans: the SABPA study
(Nature Publishing Group, 2011)
The prognostic significance of blood pressure (BP) variability has lately enjoyed considerable attention. The need for early markers of cardiovascular dysfunction is imperative in black South Africans who have a significant ...
Arterial stiffness, ambulatory blood pressure and low-grade albuminuria in non-diabetic African and caucasian men: the SABPA study
(Nature Publishing Group, 2011)
Recent evidence suggests that low-grade urinary albumin excretion is a marker of early general attenuation of vascular function, but studies are limited to Caucasian population groups. We compared low-grade urinary albumin ...
Baroreceptor sensitivity, cardiovascular responses and ECG left ventricular hypertrophy in men: the SABPA study
(Informa Health care, 2011)
Aim. Research has shown a significant relationship between hypertension and attenuated baroreceptor sensitivity (BRS), which in turn reflects alterations of autonomic control of the cardiovascular system. The objective of ...
Copeptin relates to a fatty liver and measures of obesity in a South African population with mixed ethnicities
(Springer, 2019)
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Elevated copeptin, a vasopressin marker, is linked to metabolic disease, and obese rats with low-vasopressin concentration had a decreased risk of liver steatosis. We here investigated the association between ...
Depressive symptoms and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure in Africans: the SABPA study
(Hindawi, 2012)
Disturbances in circadian rhythm might play a central role in the neurobiology of depression. We examined the association
between depressive symptoms and 24-hour ambulatory BP in a sample of 405 (197 black and 208 Caucasian) ...
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and morning surge in blood pressure in adult black and white South Africans
(Wiley, 2020)
We examined whether there were differences in the circadian variation in blood pressure and the morning surge in blood pressure between black and white Africans. Clinic and ambulatory blood pressure data obtained from the ...