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Determining the waist circumference cut off which best predicts the metabolic syndrome components in urban Africans: the SABPA study
(Thieme Publications, 2011)
Various studies have shown that the relationship between waist circumference (WC) and abdominal obesity is age, gender as well as ethnicity-dependent. WC criteria for Sub Saharan Africans have not been defined by the ...
Depressive symptoms and sub-clinical atherosclerosis in Africans: role of metabolic syndrome, inflammation and sympathoadrenal function
(Elsevier, 2011)
Depressive symptoms have been consistently associated with sub-clinical atherosclerosis and future risk of coronary heart disease events. However, the pathways linking depression and coronary atherosclerosis are poorly ...
Sympathetic nervous activity, depressive symptoms, and metabolic syndrome in black Africans: the sympathetic activity and ambulatory blood pressure in Africans study
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
The aim of this study was to examine the association between sympathetic nervous activity, depressive symptoms, and metabolic syndrome in a sample of black and Caucasian Africans. The sample consisted of healthy men and ...
Depressive symptoms and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure in Africans: the SABPA study
(Hindawi, 2012)
Disturbances in circadian rhythm might play a central role in the neurobiology of depression. We examined the association
between depressive symptoms and 24-hour ambulatory BP in a sample of 405 (197 black and 208 Caucasian) ...
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 ...
Ethnic-specific correlations of Visfatin with circulating markers of endothelial inflammation and function
(Wiley, 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 ...
The influence of cardiac and vascular responses on basesline cardiovascular parameters in black african children
(Allen Press Online Publishing, 2008)
Background: The prevalence of hypertension
among Black adults in South Africa is high.
Because cardiovascular reactivity can be used
to predict hypertension in later life, we
attempted to determine whether cardiac ...
Hyperuricaemia is an independent factor for the metabolic syndrome in a sub-Saharan African population: a factor analysis
(Elsevier, 2008)
Objective
To assess the risk factor pattern of the metabolic syndrome and its association with insulin resistance and hyperuricaemia in a sub-Saharan African population with different levels of urbanisation.
Methods
Four ...
Use of metabolomics to elucidate the metabolic perturbation associated with hypertension in a black South African male cohort: the SABPA study
(Elsevier, 2015)
There is concern about the increasing burden of essential hypertension in urban–dwelling black South Africans, especially
males. Several studies have investigated urbanization and hypertension in South Africans, but ...
Using MutPred derived mtDNA load scores to evaluate mtDNA variation in hypertension and diabetes in a two-population cohort: the SABPA study
(Elsevier, 2017)
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation has been implicated in many common complex diseases, but inconsistent and contradicting results are common. Here we introduce a novel mutational load hypothesis, which also considers the ...