Browsing Research Output by Subject "renin"

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    • Coping mechanisms, perception of health and cardiovascular dysfunction in Africans 

      Malan, Leoné; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor; Wissing, Maria Philipina; Vorster, Hester Hendrina; Steyn, Hendrik Stefanus; Van Rooyen, Johannes Marthinus; Huisman, Hugo Willem (Elsevier, 2006)
      The purpose of this study was to compare active and passive coping strategies of Africans with perception of own health and cardiovascular data. The subjects included 236 apparently healthy Africans (men = 109; women = 127). ...

    • End-organ damage in urbanized Africans with low plasma renin levels: the SABPA study 

      Van Rooyen, Johannes, M.; Schutte, Aletta, E.; Huisman, Hugo, W.; Schutte, Rudolph; Fourie, Carla M.T.; Malan, Nicolaas T.; Malan, Leoné (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 ...

    • Plasma renin responses to mental stress and carotid intima-media thickness in black Africans: the SABPA study 

      Hamer, M.; Malan, L.; Schutte, A.E.; Huisman, H.W.; Van Rooyen, J.M.; Schutte, R.; Foirie, C.M.T.; Malan, N.T. (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) ...