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Iron loading, alcohol and mortality: a prospective study
(Elsevier, 2019)
Background & aims
The relationship between total body iron and cardiovascular disease remains controversial and information absent in black sub-Saharan Africans in whom alcohol consumption tends to be high. The level of ...
The oxidative stress profile and its relation to vascular function in a bi-ethnic cohort: the SABPA study
(Karger, 2019)
Oxidative stress and inflammation
has been implicated in arterial stiffness, and hypertension development. Oxidative stress may interfere with normal vascular function by inactivation of NO and/or the production of ...
Retinal vessel caliber and vessel reaction to light flicker in true normotensive young healthy black and white adults: the African-PREDICT study
(Karger, 2019)
A detrimental shift in cardiovascular disease risk
factors and a higher mortality level are reported in some black
populations. The retinal microvasculature provides insight into
the pathogenesis of systemic vascular ...