Browsing by Author "Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia"
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Adipokines and cardiometabolic function: how are they interlinked?
Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Huisman, Hugo Willem; Schutte, Rudolph; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus; Malan, Leoné; Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor (Elsevier, 2010)Objective Adipokines contribute directly to the coexistence of insulin resistance and endothelial dysfunction. Most studies focus on a single adipokine. We therefore investigated the independent relationships of leptin, ... -
HIV infection and cardiovascular risk in black South Africans
Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus (Clinics Cardive, 2011) -
The influence of HIV infection on vascular function in an African population
Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia (North-West University, 2010)The prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, is marginalized in South Africa by the overwhelming prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV infection and/or the ... -
Is HIV-1 infection associated with endothelial dysfunction in a population of African ancestry in South Africa?
Conradie, Karin Ronel; Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Hoekstra, Tiny; Pieters, Marlien; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus (Clinics Cardive, 2011)The chronic infection status suffered by HIV-infected individuals promotes chronic arterial inflammation and injury, which leads to dysfunction of the endothelium, atherosclerosis and thrombosis. Although HIV-1 subtype C ... -
Lipid abnormalities in a never-treated HIV-1 subtype C-infected African population
Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Kruger, Annamarie; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus (SpringLink, 2010) -
Ontwikkeling van 'n siftingstegniek waarmee porievorming, alfa-effekte en lise van die venoom van die skerpioengenus, Parabuthus, onderskei kan word
Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia (North-West University (South-Africa), 2000)Scorpions of the genus Parabuthus Pocock, 1890, including Parabuthus granulatus (Ehrenberg, 1831 ), which is regarded as the most venomous in the country, are widely distributed in southern Africa. Venom of these ... -
The usefulness of Y-glutamyltransferase as a marker of cardiovascular function in Africans and caucasians: the SABPA study
Huisman, Hugo Willem; Schutte, Rudolph; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Glyn, Matthew Colin Patrick; Malan, Leoné (Informa HealthcareTaylor & Francis, 2012)Aim. Serum γ-glutamyltransferase (GGT) is increasingly regarded as a marker of vascular function. However, the usefulness of this marker is in dispute. Gender and ethnic differences, as well as the serum level range where ...