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    • Smoking and vascular dysfunction in Africans and caucasians from South Africa 

      Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus; Zatu, Mandlenkosi Caswell (Clinics Cardive, 2011)
      Background: Smoking is an important modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, with limited research having been done in Africans. We aimed to determine the association between smoking and measurements of vascular ...
    • 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 ...