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    Low serum testosterone and increased diastolic ocular perfusion pressure: a risk for retinal microvasculature 

    Malan, Nico T.; Smith, Wayne; Von Känel, Roland; Hamer, Mark; Schutte, Alta E.; Malan, Leoné (Verlag Hans Huber Hogrefe Ag, 2015)
    Summary: Background: Low levels of testosterone in men and changes in retinal microvascular calibre are both associated with hypertension and cardiovascular disease risk. Sex hormones are also associated with blood flow ...
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    Cohort profile: sympathetic activity and ambulatory blood pressure in Africans (SABPA) prospective cohort study 

    Malan, Leoné; Hamer, Mark; Steyn, Hendrik S.; Malan, Nicolaas T.; Frasure-Smith, Nancy (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 ...
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    Association between nutritional awareness and diet quality: evidence from the observation of cardiovascular risk factors in Luxembourg (ORISCAV–LUX) study 

    Alkerwi, Ala'a; Sauvageot, Nicolas; Malan, Leoné; Shivappa, Nitin; Hébert, James R. (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 ...
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    The protective role of oestradiol against silent myocardial ischemia and hypertension risk in South African men: the SABPA study 

    Malan, Nicolaas T.; Von Känel, Roland; Steyn, Hendrik S.; Kruger, Ruan; Malan, Leoné (Elsevier, 2017)
    "Background: Oestradiol has a protective effect on coronary artery health in women but the effect it has on men, is controversial. A translational approach was followed to assess whether sex hormone levels are associated ...
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    Three-year changes of prothrombotic factors in Africans with a high clinical suspicion of obstructive sleep apnea 

    Von Känel, Roland; Malan, Nico T.; Hamer, Mark; Lambert, Gavin W.; Schlaich, Markus; Reimann, Manja; Malan, Leoné (Schattauer Publishers, 2016)
    A hypercoagulable state might be one important mechanism linking obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with incident myocardial infarction and stroke. However, previous studies on prothrombotic factors in OSA are not uniform and ...
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    Emotional stress as a risk for hypertension in sub-Saharan Africans: Are we ignoring the odds? 

    Malan, Leoné; Malan, Nico T. (Springer Link, 2017)
    "Globally most interventions focus on improving lifestyle habits and treatment regimens to combat hypertension as a non-communicable disease (NCD). However, despite these interventions and improved medical treatments, blood ...
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    Cornell product relates to albuminuria in hypertensive black adults independently of blood pressure: the SABPA study 

    Schutte, Rudolph; Huisman, Hugo W.; Ware, Lisa J.; Mels, Catherina M.C.; Smith, Wayne; Malan, Nicolaas T.; Malan, Leoné; Van Rooyen, Johannes M.; Fourie, Carla M.T.; Kruger, Ruan; Botha, Shani; Schutte, Aletta E. (Elsevier, 2015)
    Evidence of the relationship between left ventricular hypertrophy and urinary albumin excretion is contradictory and limited in black adults in whom hypertensive heart disease is common. We aimed to investigate the ...
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    Ethnic disparity in defensive coping endothelial responses: the SABPA study 

    Scheepers, Jacobus De Wet; Malan, Leoné; De Kock, Andrea; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Cockeran, Marike; Von Känel, Roland (Elsevier, 2015)
    Objectives: Defensive coping (DefS) in Blacks has been associated with greater cardiovascular risk than in their White counterparts. We examined associations between endothelial function mental stress responses and markers ...
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    Defensive coping and renovascular disease risk. Adrenal fatigue in a cohort of Africans and Caucasians: the SABPA study 

    De Kock, Andrea; Malan, Leoné; Hamer, Mark; Cockeran, Marike; Malan, Nico T. (Elsevier, 2015)
    Background: Defensive coping is an established cardiovascular risk factor in Africans. Additionally, chronic, excessive or inadequate hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis (HPAA) stress responses could either increase or ...
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    Comparison of Telomere Length in Black and White Teachers From South Africa: the Sympathetic Activity and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans Study 

    Von, Kanel Roland; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Hamer, Mark; Malan, Leoné (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2015)
    Objective: Telomere length is a marker of biological aging that has been linked to cardiovascular disease risk. The black South African population is witnessing a tremendous increase in the prevalence of cardiovascular ...
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