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Adipokines and cardiometabolic function: How are they interlinked?

Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Huisman, Hugo Willem; Malan, Leone; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Schutte, Rudolph; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus (Elsevier, 2010)
Arterial stiffness profiles: investigating various sections of the arterial tree of African and caucasian people

Huisman, Hugo Willem; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Schutte, Rudolph; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus; Malan, Leoné; Reimann, Manja (Informa healthcare, 2011)

In Africans, arterial stiffness progression seems more pronounced compared to Caucasians. We compared the arterial stiffness profiles of different age groups and focused on muscular arteries and two more central arterial ...
Arterial stiffness, ambulatory blood pressure and low-grade albuminuria in non-diabetic African and caucasian men: the SABPA study

Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Glyn, Matthew Colin Patrick; Huisman, Hugo Willem; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Schutte, Rudolph; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus; Malan, Leoné (Nature Publishing Group, 2011)

Recent evidence suggests that low-grade urinary albumin excretion is a marker of early general attenuation of vascular function, but studies are limited to Caucasian population groups. We compared low-grade urinary albumin ...
The Association of Red Blood Cell Counts with Endothelin-1 in African and Caucasian Women

Schutte, Aletta; Fourie, Catharina; Huisman, Hugo; Van Rooyen, Johannes; Malan, Leone; Malan, Nicolaas; Schutte, Rudolph (Informa Healthcare, 2009)

The literature shows an increase in endothelin-1 with increased levels of erythrocytes. There are also indications that inflammation and elevated endothelin-1 levels interact with erythropoiesis. In this study, the association ...
Associations of cholesterol and glucose with cardiovascular dysfunction in black Africans: the SABPA study

Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Huisman, Hugo Willem; Lammertyn, Leandi; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Schutte, Rudolph; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus; Malan, Leoné (Informa healthcare, 2011)

The aim was to determine whether blood glucose or cholesterol is the more prominent contributor to cardiovascular dysfunction in 101 African men and 99 African women. We measured ambulatory daytime blood pressure (BP), ...
Blood glucose and nocturnal blood pressure in African and caucasian men: the SABPA study

Lammertyn, Leandi; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Schutte, Rudolph (Elsevier, 2011)

To investigate the relationship between nocturnal blood pressure and chronically elevated blood glucose to determine if these elevated blood glucose concentrations contribute to a non-dipping blood pressure, especially in ...
Blood glutathione and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in African Men : the SABPA Study

Schutte, Aletta; Fourie, Catharina; Huisman, Hugo; Van Rooyen, Johannes; Malan, Leone; Malan, Nicolaas; Schutte, Rudolph; Szabolcz, Péter (American Journal of Hypertension, Ltd., 2009)

Sub-Saharan Africans face an increasing burden of hypertension and related cardiac and cerebrovascular morbidity and mortality, making the identification of factors leading to early vascular abnormalities imperative. METHODS ...
Blood pressure variability is significantly associated with ECG left ventricular mass in normotensive Africans: the SABPA study

Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Huisman, Hugo Willem; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Schutte, Rudolph; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus; Malan, Leoné (Nature Publishing Group, 2011)

The prognostic significance of blood pressure (BP) variability has lately enjoyed considerable attention. The need for early markers of cardiovascular dysfunction is imperative in black South Africans who have a significant ...
Bone resorption and environmental exposure to cadmium in women: a population study

Schutte, Rudolph; Nawrot, Tim S; Richart, Tom; Thijs, Lutgarde; Vanderschueren, Dirk; Kuznetsova, Tatiana; Van Hecke, Etienne; Roels, Harry A; Staessen, Jan A (National Institute of Environmetal Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2008)

Background: Environmental exposure to cadmium decreases bone density indirectly through hypercalciuria resulting from renal tubular dysfunction. Objective: We sought evidence for a direct osteotoxic effect of cadmium ...
Classifying Africans with the Metabolic Syndrome

Schutte, Aletta E; Olckers, Antonel; Huisman, Hugo W; Van Rooyen, Johannes; Malan, Leone; Malan, Nicolaas T; Schutte, Rudolph (Thieme, 2009)

This study was aimed to compare prevalences of the metabolic syndrome in Africans using five definitions as proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Group for the Study of Insulin Resistance (EGIR), ...
Comparison of central pressure estimates obtained from SphygmoCor, Omron HEM-9000AI and carotid applanation tonometry

Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Glyn, Matthew Colin Patrick; Huisman, Hugo Willem; Kips, Jan; Malan, Leone; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Schutte, Rudolph; Segers, Patrick; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus; Vermeersch, Sebastian; Van Bortel, Luc (Lipppincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2011)

Background: The Omron HEM-9000AI is the first automated tonometer to provide an estimate of central SBP (cSBP), which is considered to be more predictive of cardiovascular events than brachial pressure. However, considerable ...
Conventional and behavioral risk factors explain differences in sub-clinical vascular disease between black and Caucasian South Africans: the SABPA study

Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Huisman, Hugo Willem; Malan, Leone; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Schutte, Rudolph; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus; Hamer, M.; Seedat, Y.K. (Elsevier, 2011)

Conventional and behavioral risk factors explain differences in sub-clinical vascular disease between black and Caucasian South Africans: The SABPA study Objectives: There is an emerging burden of cardiovascular disease ...
Dimethylarginines: Their vascular and metabolic roles in Africans and Caucasians

Anderssohn, Maike; Böger, Rainer; Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Huisman, Hugo Willem; Malan, Leone; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Schutte, Rudolph; Schwedhelm, Edzard; Strimbeanu, Sebastian; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus (BioScintifica, 2010)
Ethnic-specific Correlations of Visfatin with circulating Markers of Endothelial Inflammation and Function

Schutte, Aletta; Huisman, Hugo; Van Rooyen, Johannes; Malan, Leone; Malan, Nicolaas; Schutte, Rudolph (Nature publishing group, 2009)

Sub-Saharan Africa is afflicted by high hypertension prevalence that is expected to rise even further along with increasing obesity rates. The present study aimed to investigate the role of visfatin in obesity and to explore ...
Genetic polymorphisms of beta(2)- and beta(3)- adrenergic receptor genes associated with characteristics of the metabolic syndrome in black South African women

Malan, Nicolaas T; Van Rooyen, Johannes W; Huisman, Hugo; Schutte, Aletta E; Brits, Marius; Schutte, Rudolph; Olckers, Antonel; Towers, G Wayne; Pretorius, Pieter J; Schwarz, P E H (Thieme Fachtzeitschriften, 2008)
The influence of cardiac and vascular responses on basesline cardiovascular parameters in black african children

Malan, Nicolaas; Van Rooyen, Johannes; Malan, Leone; Fourie, Catharina; Huisman, Hugo; Schutte, Aletta; Schutte, Rudolph (Allen Press Online Publishing, 2008)
Plasma renin responses to mental stress and carotid intima-media thickness in black Africans: The SABPA study

Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Huisman, Hugo Willem; Malan, Leone; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Schutte, Rudolph; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus; Hamer, M.; Seedat, Y.K. (Nature Publishing Group, 2011)

The renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system can be activated by sympathetic nervous input and is thought to have an important role in the prevalence of hypertension and cardiovascular risk in black Africans. We examined (1) ...
Serum calcium revisited: Associations with 24-h ambulatory blood pressure and cardiovascular reactivity in Africans

Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Huisman, Hugo Willem; Malan, Leone; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Schutte, Rudolph; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus (The Japanese Society of Hypertension, 2010)
Should obesity be blamed for the high prevalence rates of hypertension in black South African women?

Malan, Nicolaas T; Van Rooyen, Johannes M; Malan, Leone; Huisman, Hugo W; De Ridder, Johannes H; Schutte, Aletta E; Schutte, Rudolph; Van der Merwe, Annelize; Reimann, M; Schwarz, P E H (Nature Publishing Group, 2008)
A significant decline in IGF-I may predispose young Africans to subsequent cardiometabolic vulnerability

Fourie, Catharina Maria Theresia; Huisman, Hugo Willem; Louw, Roan; Malan, Leone; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Schutte, Rudolph; Van der Westhuizen, Francois Hendrikus; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus (The Endocrine Society, 2010)