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    Double product and end-organ damage in African and Caucasian men: the SABPA study

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    2013
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    Schultz, A.J.
    Schutte, A.E.
    Schutte, R.
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    Background: Increasing urbanisation in sub-Saharan African countries is causing a rapid increase in cardiovascular disease. Evidence suggests that Africans have higher blood pressures and a higher prevalence of hypertension-related cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, compared to Caucasians. We investigated double product (systolic blood pressure×heart rate), a substantial measure of cardiac workload, as a possible cardiovascular risk factor in African and Caucasian men. Material and methods: The study consisted of 101 urbanised African and 101 Caucasian male school teachers. We measured 24 h ambulatory blood pressure and the carotid cross-sectional wall area, and determined left ventricular hypertrophy electrocardiographically by means of the Cornell product. Urinary albumin and creatinine were analysed to obtain the albumin-to-creatinine ratio. Results: Africans had higher 24 h, daytime and nighttime systolic- and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate and resultant double product compared to the Caucasians. In addition, markers of end-organ damage, albuminto- creatinine ratio and left ventricular hypertrophy were higher in the Africans while cross-sectional wall area did not differ. In Africans after single partial and multiple regression analysis, 24 h systolic blood pressure, but not double product or heart rate, correlated positively with markers of end-organ damage (cross-sectional wall area: β=0.398, P=0.005; left ventricular hypertrophy: β=0.455, Pb0.001; albuminto- creatinine ratio: β=0.280, P=0.012). No associations were evident in Caucasian men. Conclusions: Double product may not be a good marker of increased cardiovascular risk when compared to systolic blood pressure in African and Caucasian men.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10394/14064
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22465346/
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167527312002197
    https://www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com/article/S0167-5273(12)00219-7/fulltext
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