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Time-to-onset of treatment for hypertension and hyperlipidaemia in South African diabetes mellitus patients: a survival analysis using medicine claims data
(Wiley, 2019)
What is known and objective
Hypertension and hyperlipidaemia have high prevalence among diabetics and increase patients’ risk of cardiovascular diseases, ultimately affecting prognosis negatively. Medicine claims data ...
Recent advances in understanding hypertension development in sub-Saharan Africa
(Nature, 2017)
Consistent reports indicate that hypertension is a particularly common finding in black populations. Hypertension occurs at
younger ages and is often more severe in terms of blood pressure levels and organ damage than in ...
Prevalence of hypertension in older people in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Wolters Kluwer, 2017)
Objective: The prevalence of hypertension in older people living on the African continent has not been comprehensively assessed. We aimed to provide accurate estimates of hypertension prevalence and variations by major ...
Depression symptoms facilitated fibrinolytic dysregulation and future coronary artery disease risk in a black male cohort: the sympathetic activity and ambulatory blood pressure in Africans study
(Wolters Kluwer, 2017)
Background: Hypercoagulation is associated with coronary artery disease (CAD). Whether depression symptoms dysregulate inflammatory and hemostatic markers in an African cohort is not known; therefore, we assessed the ...
Cardiovascular proteomics
(Elsevier, 2020)
Cardiovascular diseases are the major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. They develop over long periods of time, and are typically caused by multiple factors, and interaction with the environment. Proteomics allows ...
Defensive coping facilitated a smaller cortisol-to-estradiol ratio and a higher hypertension risk: the SABPA study
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Objectives: Taxing psychosocial stress and defensive coping have been associated with hypoactivity in cortisol, a vasoconstrictive agent. Estradiol has vasodilatory properties with cardio- and neuroprotective effects. It ...
Is the cardiovascular health of South Africans today comparable with African Americans 45 years ago?
(Wolters Kluwer, 2019)
Objectives: Hypertension occurs frequently among
black populations around the world. In the United
States (US) health system, interventions since the 1960s
resulted in improvements in hypertension awareness,
management ...
Development of the certificate course in the management of hypertension in Africa (CCMH-Africa): proceedings of the first Continental Faculty Meeting, Nairobi, Kenya, 25-26 Feb 2018
(Clinics Cardive, 2018)
Background: In response to the call by the World Health Organisation to reduce premature deaths from non-commu- nicable diseases by 25% by the year 2025 (25×25), the Pan-African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR), in partner- ...
Coping and metabolic syndrome indicators in urban black South African men: the SABPA study
(Clinics Cardiv Publishing, 2010)
Urbanisation is associated with obesity, hypertension anddevelopment of the metabolic syndrome (MS). We aimed toassess the use of different coping styles and their influenceon increases in MS indicators and target end-organ ...
The contribution of the C-824T tyrosine hydroxylase polymorphism to the prevalence of hypertension in a South African cohort: the SABPA study
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
The C-824T single nucleotide polymorphism in the promoter region of the tyrosine hydroxylase gene has been associated with hypertension. It is well documented that African South Africans exhibit a higher prevalence of ...