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  • Association of Adipose tissue inflammation with histologic severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease 
    Du Plessis, Johannie; Van Pelt, Jos; Korf, Hannelie; Mathieu, Chantal; Van der Schueren, Bart; Lannoo, Matthias; Oyen, Tom; Topal, Baki; Fetter, Gary; Nayler, Simon; Van der Merwe, Tessa; Windmolders, Petra; Van Gaal, Luc; Verrijken, An; Hubens, Guy; Gericke, Martin; Cassiman, David; Francque, Sven; Nevens, Frederik; Van der Merwe, Schalk (Elsevier, 2015-09)
    BACKGROUND & AIMS : The prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has increased with the obesity pandemic. We analyzed the transcriptional profiles of subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) and visceral adipose ...
  • Attitudes toward plagiarism : the case of undergraduate health sciences students at the University of Pretoria 
    Matsebetlela, E.M. (Emmanuel); Kuhudzai, Anesu Gelfand (CSSALL Publishers, 2018)
    The primary aim of the study on which this article is based was to investigate undergraduate health sciences students’ perceptions, attitudes to and awareness of plagiarism at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. ...
  • Autonomic impairment in rheumatoid arthritis 
    Janse van Rensburg, Dina Christina; Ker, James A.; Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia); Fletcher, Lizelle (Blackwell Publishing, 2012-08)
    AIM: To determine if there is a difference between autonomic cardiac control as measured by heart rate variability (HRV) in women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared to a healthy control group. METHODS: The RA group ...
  • Autonomic response to exercise as measured by cardiovascular variability 
    Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia); Ker, James A. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2008)
    MOTIVATION: There is growing interest in the use of cardiovascular variability indicators as measures of autonomic activity,even though reported results are not always comparable or as expected. This review aims to determine ...
  • Bariatric surgery : risks and recommendations for the prevention of perioperative thromboembolism 
    Murphy, A.; Van der Merwe, Maria-Teresa (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010)
    No abstract available.
  • Basedow paraplegia : a possible misnomer 
    Smith, Lizl; Kemp, Tanja; Van der Meyden, C.H. (Kees); Schutte, Clara-Maria (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2015-10)
    Thyrotoxic myopathy frequently occurs in clinical practice; however, the association of hyperthyroidism with a flaccid, areflexic paraplegia, so-called Basedow paraplegia, appears to represent a controversial and doubtful ...
  • Beneficial and harmful interactions of antibiotics with microbial pathogens and the host innate immune system 
    Anderson, Ronald; Tintinger, Gregory Ronald; Cockeran, Riana; Potjo, Moliehi; Feldman, Charles (Molecular Diversity Preservation International, 2010-05)
    In general antibiotics interact cooperatively with host defences, weakening and decreasing the virulence of microbial pathogens, thereby increasing vulnerability to phagocytosis and eradication by the intrinsic antimicrobial ...
  • Beta blockers and their combinations in the management of hypertension 
    Ker, James A. (South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care, 2012-09)
    Beta blockers have been prescribed for the treatment of primary hypertension for a very long time. Currently, it is doubtful whether this is still a good idea. In fact, many are of the opinion that beta blockers should be ...
  • Broken heart syndrome 
    Ker, James A. (Media 24, 2015)
    Takotsubo was first described in Japan in 1990, but subsequently it was described globally and in 2013 there were 1879 publications on the subject. The main characteristic is transient reversible systolic dysfunction of ...
  • Burning issues in acute heart failure management 
    Ker, James A.; Outhoff, Kim (Medpharm Publications, 2019-12)
    In general, heart failure is the end-stage manifestation of cardiovascular disease and is an important and increasing cause of morbidity worldwide. Acute heart failure, whether of new onset or an exacerbation of chronic ...
  • Burning issues in blood pressure control 
    Ker, James A.; Outhoff, Kim (OASIS, 2019-03)
    Globally more than 1 billion people have hypertension and it is predicted that because of ageing populations and increasing sedentary lifestyles, this figure will rise to about 1.5 billion by 2025. Elevated blood pressure ...
  • Burning issues in the prevention of heart failure 
    Ker, James A.; Outhoff, Kim (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-07)
    Chronic heart failure is common, debilitating, and often the culmination of pervasive cardiovascular insults that systematically undermine the heart’s circulatory capacity and invoke counterproductive neuro-hormonal ...
  • Burning issues in the prevention of heart failure 
    Ker, James A.; Outhoff, Kim (MedPharm Publications, 2020-08)
    Chronic heart failure is common, debilitating, and often the culmination of pervasive cardiovascular insults that systematically undermine the heart’s circulatory capacity and invoke counterproductive neuro-hormonal ...
  • Calcium-dependent potentiation of the pro-inflammatory functions of human neutrophils by tigecycline in vitro 
    Cockeran, Riana; Mutepe, Ndiafhi Daphney; Theron, Annette J.; Tintinger, Gregory Ronald; Steel, Helen C.; Stivaktas, Paraskevi Irene; Richards, Guy A.; Feldman, Charles; Anderson, Ronald (Oxford University Press, 2012)
    OBJECTIVES: Tigecycline is the prototype of the recently introduced, intravenously administered glycylcycline class of antibiotics, developed in response to the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance in Gram-positi ...
  • Carbohydrate-derived fulvic acid wellness drink : its tolerability, safety and effect on disease markers in pre-ART HIV-1 positive subjects 
    Botes, M.E.; Gilada, I.S.; Snyman, J.R.; Labuschagne, J.PL. (Medpharm Publications, NISC (Pty) Ltd and Cogent, Taylor and Francis Group, 2018)
    BACKGROUND : Many people take wellness drinks on a daily basis to enhance physical and emotional well-being. The safety and/ or efficacy of these are not always known or even established in the populations likely to consume ...
  • Carboxyhaemoglobin levels in water-pipe and cigarette smokers 
    Theron, Ansa; Schultz, Cedric; Ker, James A.; Falzone, Nadia (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010-02)
    Water-pipe smoking is growing in popularity, especially among young people, because of the social nature of the smoking session and the assumption that the effects are less harmful than those of cigarette smoking. It has ...
  • Cardiovascular risk calculation 
    Ker, James A. (MedPharm Publications, 2014-05)
    Cardiovascular disease remains a major cause of global mortality and morbidity. Atherosclerosis is the main underlying cause in the majority of cardiovascular disease events. Traditional independent risk factors for car ...
  • A case of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) in an obstetric patient : a South African perspective 
    Laudin, Garrick; Wium, Lizemarie (SEEd Medical Publishers, 2019-01-16)
    Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) originates from an acquired genetic defect in a multipotent hematopoietic stem cell that becomes stem-cell-like in its ability to survive, expand, and self-renew. PNH is a rare ...
  • A case of unexplained cyanosis 
    Soma, Prashilla; Ellemdin, Shiraz (Clinics Cardiv, 2012-09)
    It is now clear that hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) may occur and contribute significantly to gas exchange abnormalities in the setting of other cardiopulmonary abnormalities. Since there is no gold-standard diagnostic ...
  • Case study : a novel use for faecal microbial transplantation 
    Ueckermann, Veronica; Francis, E.W. (NISC (Pty) Ltd, Medpharm Publications, and Informa UK Limited, 2019)
    Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) refers to the infusion of faeces from a healthy donor, into the gastrointestinal tract of a recipient patient. There is considerable evidence for the efficacy of FMT for the ...