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  1. Correction to: Heart rate variability, the dynamic nature of the retinal microvasculature and cardiac stress: providing insight into the brain–retina–heart link: the SABPA study
  2. Coping facilitated troponin T increases and hypo-responsivity in the copeptin-HPA-axis during acute mental stress in a black cohort: The SABPA study
  3. Relation of the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system with potential cardiac injury and remodelling: the SABPA study
  4. Heart rate variability, the dynamic nature of the retinal microvasculature and cardiac stress: providing insight into the brain–retina–heart link: the SABPA study
  5. Coping and Cardiac Troponin T – A Risk for Hypertension and Sub-Clinical ECG Left Ventricular Hypertrophy: The SABPA Study
  6. BDNF increases associated with constant troponin T levels and may protect against poor cognitive interference control: The SABPA prospective study
  7. 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
  8. Implementing a new variant load model to investigate the role of mtDNA in oxidative stress and inflammation in a bi-ethnic cohort: the SABPA study
  9. Longitudinal changes of cardiac troponin and inflammation reflect progressive myocyte stretch and likelihood for hypertension in a Black male cohort: The SABPA study
  10. Validation of the Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI) in a multicultural context: The SABPA study
  11. Prospective associations between cardiac stress, glucose dysregulation and executive cognitive function in Black men: The Sympathetic activity and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans study
  12. Cultural coping as a risk for depression and hypertension: the SABPA prospective study
  13. Retinal Vasculature Reactivity During Flicker Light Provocation, Cardiac Stress and Stroke Risk in Africans: The SABPA Study
  14. Chronic depression symptoms desensitize renin activity to protect against volume-loading hypertension in Blacks: The SABPA study
  15. QTc prolongation, increased NT-proBNP and pre-clinical myocardial wall remodeling in excessive alcohol consumers: The SABPA study
  16. Defensive coping facilitated a smaller cortisol-to-estradiol ratio and a higher hypertension risk: the SABPA study
  17. Coping and nervous system fatigue impact on the heart
  18. The protective role of oestradiol against silent myocardial ischemia and hypertension risk in South African men: The SABPA study
  19. Asymmetric dimethylarginine and symmetric dimethylarginine prospectively relates to carotid wall thickening in black men: the SABPA study
  20. Recent advances in understanding hypertension development in sub-Saharan Africa
  21. Using MutPred derived mtDNA load scores to evaluate mtDNA variation in hypertension and diabetes in a two-population cohort: The SABPA study
  22. Defensive coping, essential amino acids and structural vascular disease
  23. Troponin T release is associated with silent myocardial ischaemia in black men: The SABPA Study
  24. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-axis dysregulation and double product increases potentiate ischemic heart disease risk in a Black male cohort: the SABPA study
  25. The association between seven-day objectively measured habitual physical activity and 24 h ambulatory blood pressure: the SABPA study
  26. Depression Symptoms Facilitated Fibrinolytic Dysregulation and Future Coronary Artery Disease Risk in a Black Male Cohort
  27. Cortisol:brain-derived neurotrophic factor ratio associated with silent ischaemia in a black male cohort: the SA BPA study
  28. Perspectives and challenges of antioxidant therapy for atrial fibrillation
  29. Hypertension types defined by clinic and ambulatory blood pressure in 14 143 patients referred to hypertension clinics worldwide. Data from the ARTEMIS study
  30. A Challenged Sympathetic System Is Associated with Retinal Vascular Calibre in a Black Male Cohort: The SABPA Study
  31. Hypertension and cardiovascular diseases in Africa
  32. Erratum: Corrigendum: Retinal vessel caliber and its relationship with nocturnal blood pressure dipping status: the SABPA study
  33. MPS 18-09 FIBROSIS AND CORONARY PERFUSION - A CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK IN AN AFRICAN MALE COHORT
  34. PS 02-41 HYPERPULSATILE PRESSURE, SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION AND CARDIAC STRESS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH CARDIAC WALL REMODELLING IN AN AFRICAN MALE COHORT
  35. OS 34-03 THE ASSOCIATION OF TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN WITH A MARKER OF NITRIC OXIDE PRODUCTION IN A BLACK AND WHITE POPULATION
  36. The defense response and alcohol intake: A coronary artery disease risk? The SABPA Study
  37. Fibrosis and coronary perfusion – a cardiovascular disease risk in an African male cohort: The SABPA study
  38. Retinal vessel caliber and its relationship with nocturnal blood pressure dipping status: the SABPA study
  39. Hyperpulsatile pressure, systemic inflammation and cardiac stress are associated with cardiac wall remodeling in an African male cohort: the SABPA study
  40. Chronic depression symptoms and salivary NOx are associated with retinal vascular dysregulation: The SABPA study
  41. Hypercoagulation and hyperkinetic blood pressure indicative of physiological loss-of-control despite behavioural control in Africans: The SABPA study
  42. Emotional Stress as a Risk for Hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africans: Are We Ignoring the Odds?
  43. Three-year changes of prothrombotic factors in a cohort of South Africans with a high clinical suspicion of obstructive sleep apnea
  44. Masked hypertension and its associated cardiovascular risk in young individuals: the African-PREDICT study
  45. Low serum testosterone and increased diastolic ocular perfusion pressure: a risk for retinal microvasculature
  46. Defensive coping and renovascular disease risk — Adrenal fatigue in a cohort of Africans and Caucasians: The SABPA study
  47. Ethnic disparity in defensive coping endothelial responses: The SABPA study
  48. Comment on Reimann et al, pages 277 - 284 Microcirculation: an early prognostic factor in the control of blood pressure
  49. Association between Nutritional Awareness and Diet Quality: Evidence from the Observation of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Luxembourg (ORISCAV-LUX) Study
  50. Prognostic significance of dipping in older hypertensive patients
  51. Cornell product relates to albuminuria in hypertensive black adults independently of blood pressure: the SABPA study
  52. Use of metabolomics to elucidate the metabolic perturbation associated with hypertension in a black South African male cohort: the SABPA study
  53. Comparison of Telomere Length in Black and White Teachers From South Africa
  54. Progression of cardiovascular risk factors in black Africans: 3 year follow up of the SABPA cohort study
  55. Leukocyte telomere length and hemostatic factors in a South African cohort: the SABPA Study
  56. The relationship between retinal vessel calibre and nocturnal dipping status: the SABPA study
  57. Cohort Profile: Sympathetic activity and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans (SABPA) prospective cohort study
  58. 8-Oxo-7,8-dihydro-2’-deoxyguanosine, reactive oxygen species and ambulatory blood pressure in African and Caucasian men: The SABPA study
  59. Acute cardiometabolic responses facilitating a state of chronic hyperglycemia and renal impairment
  60. Attenuated brain-derived neurotrophic factor and hypertrophic remodelling: the SABPA study
  61. Blunted neuroendocrine responses linking depressive symptoms and ECG-left ventricular hypertrophy in black Africans
  62. Psychosocial stress but not hypertensive status associated with angiogenesis in Africans
  63. Optimizing waist circumference cut-points for the metabolic syndrome in a South African cohort at 3-year follow-up: the SABPA prospective cohort
  64. Compromised bioavailable IGF-1 of black men relates favourably to ambulatory blood pressure: The SABPA study
  65. Cardiometabolic markers to identify cardiovascular disease risk in HIV-infected black South Africans
  66. Attenuated NOx responses and myocardial ischemia, a possible risk for structural vascular disease in African men: the SABPA study
  67. Chronic distress and acute vascular stress responses associated with ambulatory blood pressure in low-testosterone African men: the SABPA Study
  68. Low Grade Inflammation and ECG Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Urban African Males: The SABPA Study
  69. Nocturnal Blood Pressure, 3-Methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol and Carotid Intima-media Thickness: The SABPA Study
  70. The link between vascular deterioration and branched chain amino acids in a population with high glycated haemoglobin: the SABPA study
  71. Effects of Acute and Chronic Stress on the L-Arginine Nitric Oxide Pathway in Black and White South Africans
  72. Testosterone and acute stress are associated with fibrinogen and von Willebrand factor in African men: The SABPA study
  73. Defensive active coping facilitates chronic hyperglycaemia and endothelial dysfunction in African men: The SABPA study
  74. Alkaline phosphatase and arterial structure and function in hypertensive African men: The SABPA study
  75. Structural Vascular Disease in Africans: Performance of Ethnic-specific Waist Circumference Cut Points using Logistic Regression and Neural Network Analyses: The SABPA Study
  76. Determining ethnic-, gender-, and age-specific waist circumference cut-off points to predict metabolic syndrome: the Sympathetic Activity and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans (SABPA) study
  77. End-organ damage in urbanized Africans with low plasma renin levels: the SABPA study
  78. Defensive coping facilitates higher blood pressure and early sub-clinical structural vascular disease via alterations in heart rate variability: The SABPA study
  79. The Contribution of the C-824T Tyrosine Hydroxylase Polymorphism to the Prevalence of Hypertension in a South African Cohort: The SABPA Study
  80. The Association of 25(OH)D with Blood Pressure, Pulse Pressure and Carotid-Radial Pulse Wave Velocity in African Women
  81. Coping and Cultural Context: Implications for Psychological Health and Well-Being
  82. Procoagulant reactivity to laboratory acute mental stress in Africans and Caucasians, and its relation to depressive symptoms: The SABPA Study
  83. Exploring the Link Between Cardiovascular Reactivity and End-Organ Damage in African and Caucasian Men: The SABPA Study
  84. Metabolic and Glutathione Redox Markers Associated with Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Depressed African Men and Women: Evidence for Counterregulation?
  85. Greater cardiovascular reactivity to a cold stimulus is due to higher cold pain perception in black Africans
  86. Sex hormones associated with subclinical kidney damage and atherosclerosis in South African men
  87. Defensive coping and subclinical vascular disease risk – Associations with autonomic exhaustion in Africans and Caucasians: The SABPA study
  88. l‐Carnitine and Long‐Chain Acylcarnitines are Positively Correlated with Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Humans: The SABPA Study
  89. Low Testosterone and Hyperkinetic Blood Pressure Responses in a Cohort of South African Men: The SABPA Study
  90. Depression, Cardiometabolic Function and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in African Men and Women: The SABPA Study
  91. 609 COMPARING THE ASSOCIATION OF CARDIOVASCULAR REACTIVITY AND END-ORGAN DAMAGE IN AFRICAN AND CAUCASIAN MEN
  92. 290 GREATER CARDIOVASCULAR REACTIVITY TO A COLD PRESSOR TEST IS DUE TO HIGHER COLD PAIN PERCEPTION IN BLACK AFRICANS
  93. 928 DEFENSIVE ACTIVE COPING FACILITATES CHRONIC HYPERGLYCEMIA AND EARLY VASCULAR STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN AFRICAN MEN
  94. Are behavioural risk factors to be blamed for the conversion from optimal blood pressure to hypertensive status in Black South Africans? A 5-year prospective study
  95. Association of waist circumference with perception of own health in urban African males and females: the Sympathetic Activity and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans (SABPA) study
  96. Metabolic Syndrome Indicators and Target Organ Damage in Urban Active Coping African and Caucasian Men: The SABPA Study
  97. Silent Ischemia Is Associated With Subclinical Atherosclerosis in African Males: The Sympathetic Activity and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans Study
  98. Defensive coping, urbanization, and neuroendocrine function in Black Africans: The THUSA study
  99. The relationship between cortisol, C-reactive protein and hypertension in African and Causcasian women : the POWIRS study
  100. Determining cut-off values for neck circumference as a measure of the metabolic syndrome amongst a South African cohort: the SABPA study
  101. Facilitated defensive coping, silent ischaemia and ECG left-ventricular hypertrophy
  102. Cardiovascular, cortisol and coping responses in urban Africans : the SAPBA study
  103. Sympathetic nervous activity, depressive symptoms, and metabolic syndrome in black Africans: The sympathetic activity and ambulatory blood pressure in Africans study
  104. Metabolic Syndrome Indicators and Target Organ Damage in Urban Active Coping African and Caucasian Men: The SABPA Study
  105. Depressive Symptoms and 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans: The SABPA Study
  106. Brain activity increases blood pressure when stress perception is high
  107. The Usefulness of γ-Glutamyltransferase as a Marker of Cardiovascular Function in Africans and Caucasians: The SABPA Study
  108. Ethnicity-specific differences in L-arginine status in South African men
  109. Determining the Waist Circumference Cut off which Best Predicts the Metabolic Syndrome components in urban Africans: The SABPA study
  110. Ethnicity and differential regulation of arginine status in South Africa
  111. Depressive symptoms and sub-clinical atherosclerosis in Africans: Role of metabolic syndrome, inflammation and sympathoadrenal function
  112. Arterial Stiffness Profiles: Investigating Various Sections of the Arterial Tree of African and Caucasian People
  113. Blood pressure variability is significantly associated with ECG left ventricular mass in normotensive Africans: The SABPA Study
  114. Comparison of central pressure estimates obtained from SphygmoCor, Omron HEM-9000AI and carotid applanation tonometry
  115. Baroreceptor sensitivity, cardiovascular responses and ECG left ventricular hypertrophy in men: The SABPA study
  116. Arterial stiffness, ambulatory blood pressure and low-grade albuminuria in non-diabetic African and Caucasian men: the SABPA study
  117. Associations of Cholesterol and Glucose with Cardiovascular Dysfunction in Black Africans: The SABPA Study
  118. Differences in MetS marker prevalence between black African and Caucasian teachers from the North West Province: Sympathetic Activity and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans (SABPA) Study
  119. Conventional and behavioral risk factors explain differences in sub-clinical vascular disease between black and Caucasian South Africans: The SABPA study
  120. Associations between reactive oxygen species, blood pressure and arterial stiffness in black South Africans: the SABPA study
  121. Coping and metabolic syndrome indicators in urban black South African men
  122. Adipokines and cardiometabolic function: How are they interlinked?
  123. Psychophysiological risk markers of cardiovascular disease
  124. Plasma renin responses to mental stress and carotid intima–media thickness in black Africans: the SABPA study
  125. Serum calcium revisited: associations with 24-h ambulatory blood pressure and cardiovascular reactivity in Africans
  126. A Significant Decline in IGF-I May Predispose Young Africans to Subsequent Cardiometabolic Vulnerability
  127. Dimethylarginines: their vascular and metabolic roles in Africans and Caucasians
  128. Ethnic‐specific Correlations of Visfatin With Circulating Markers of Endothelial Inflammation and Function
  129. Blood Glutathione and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in African Men: The SABPA Study
  130. The Association of Red Blood Cell Counts with Endothelin-1 in African and Caucasian Women
  131. Classifying Africans with the Metabolic Syndrome
  132. Coping with urbanization: A cardiometabolic risk?
  133. von Willebrand Factor as Marker of Vascular Function in South African Women: The POWIRS Study
  134. Effects of antioxidants on serum uric acid as a marker of vascular function
  135. STRESS HORMONE AND CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION OF AFRICANS DURING URBANIZATION
  136. DISSOCIATION OF A PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVE COPING STYLE IN AFRICANS DURING URBANIZATION
  137. Should obesity be blamed for the high prevalence rates of hypertension in black South African women?
  138. Genetic Polymorphisms of β2- and β3-Adrenergic Receptor Genes Associated with Characteristics of the Metabolic Syndrome in Black South African Women
  139. Hyperuricaemia is an independent factor for the metabolic syndrome in a sub-Saharan African population: A factor analysis
  140. Effects of aging on pulse wave velocity in African men and women
  141. Ethnic differences in pulse wave velocity and its relation to blood pressure
  142. Differences and similarities regarding adiponectin investigated in African and Caucasian women
  143. Ethnic differences in C-peptide secretion but not in non-esterified fatty acid metabolism in pre-menopausal women with and without abdominal obesity
  144. Determinants of aortic input impedance in two ethnic populations: impact of obesity
  145. Aging influences the level and functions of fasting plasma ghrelin levels: The POWIRS-Study
  146. Coping mechanisms, perception of health and cardiovascular dysfunction in Africans
  147. Inflammation, obesity and cardiovascular function in African and Caucasian women from South Africa: the POWIRS study
  148. Specific coping strategies of Africans during urbanization: Comparing cardiovascular responses and perception of health data
  149. Differences in resting cardiovascular parameters in 10- to 15-year-old children of different ethnicity: The contribution of physiological and psychological factors
  150. Prolactin, testosterone and cortisol as possible markers of changes in cardiovascular function associated with urbanization