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Blunted neuro-endocrine responses linking depressive symptoms and ECG left ventricular hypertrophy in black Africans: the SABPA study
(Wolters Kluwer, 2014)
Objective: Chronic psychosocial stress as experienced in an urban environment plays an important role in the aetiology of depression-related cardiovascular risk. It is uncertain whether acute mental stress responses aggravate ...
Psychosocial stress but not hypertensive status associated with angiogenesis in Africans
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)
Aim. Increased angiogenic factors [vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A) and angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2)] have been associated with vascular dysfunction and hypertension. Black Africans undergoing rapid urbanization ...
Depression, cardiometabolic function and left ventricular hypertrophy in African men and women: the SABPA study
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Depressive symptoms are associated with an increased risk for developing cardiovascular diseases, driven by its link to the metabolic syndrome (MetS). This phenomenon, however, still needs to be investigated in the African ...
Low testosterone and hyperkinetic blood pressure responses in a cohort of South African men: the SABPA study
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Hypertension (HT) and the metabolic syndrome are major problems in Africa. The role of sex hormones in the cardiovascular profile of black Africans in South Africa has not been studied. Our objective was to study the ...
Serum calcium revisited: associations with 24-h ambulatory blood pressure and cardiovascular reactivity in Africans
(Nature, 2010)
Sub-Saharan Africans face an increasing burden of hypertension. Although controversial, recent experimental evidence strongly suggests that serum calcium contributes to elevated blood pressure through increased vascular ...
Arterial stiffness profiles: investigating various sections of the arterial tree of African and caucasian people
(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 ...
Sex hormones associated with subclinical kidney damage and atherosclerosis in South African men: the SABPA study
(Kluwer, 2012)
Background: Hypertension and increased blood glucose are associated with subclinical kidney damage, atherosclerosis and with low testosterone values. Low testosterone in men is often accompanied by increased levels of ...
Silent ischemia is associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in African males: the sympathetic activity and ambulatory blood pressure in Africans study
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
Silent myocardial ischemia is a predictor of subclinical atherosclerosis driven by increased cardiovascular risk markers, although still unknown in Africans. The aim of this study was to assess if cardiovascular risk markers ...
Ethnicity-specific changes in cardiac troponin t in response to acute mental stress and ethnicity-specific cutpoints for the R wave of the aVL lead: the SABPA study
(Oxford Univ Press, 2019)
Acute mental stressor–induced cardiac stress responses might contribute to excessive myocardial strain and resultant cardiovascular episode risk. We assessed ethnicity-specific acute cardiac stress (by measuring cardiac ...
End-organ damage in urbanized Africans with low plasma renin levels: the SABPA study
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether active renin concentration is associated with markers of end-organ damage in urbanized Africans. This study forms part of the Sympathetic Activity and Ambulatory Blood ...