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Discovery science
2023-12-06 Overview The Discovery Science sub-theme aims to discover new biomarkers of cardiovascular disease through both basic and advanced methodologies such as proteomics and metabolomics. By establishing collaborations, we aim to investigate these biomarkers on a…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/hypertension-africa-research-team-hart/epidemiology-and-preventive-science
Epidemiology and preventive science
2023-12-05 Overview The aim of this sub-theme in HART is to ultimately drive policy change based on rigorous evidence and cutting-edge research to promote cardiovascular health in South Africa. This sub-theme, Epidemiology and preventive science hosts some of HART's…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/hypertension-africa-research-team-hart/translational-and-implementation-science
Translational and implementation science
2023-12-08 Overview This sub-theme within HART covers clinical trials, validation studies, collaborations with hospitals and clinics on scientific and non-scientific initiatives as well as broader community engagement projects. Current projects include urinary…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/hypertension-africa-research-team-hart/about-hart
About HART
2023-12-06 Vision The vision of HART is to be nationally and internationally recognised for excellence in cardiovascular research. Mission The team aims to achieve this by driving research excellence in scientific knowledge generation, translation and implementation…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/hypertension-africa-research-team-hart/cross-sectional-studies
Cross-sectional studies
2023-12-04 African-PREDICT study ExAMIN Youth SA The ASOS project [tabs] The SAfrEIC study SAfrEIC study (South African study on the effect of Sex, Age and Ethnicity on Insulin sensitivity and Cardiovascular Function) was a cross-…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/hypertension-africa-research-team-hart/longitudinal-studies
Longitudinal studies
2023-12-08 African-PREDICT study ExAMIN Youth SA PRECEED-Africa The EndoAfrica project The SABPA study The PURE study .boxlayout a { color: #00889c; }https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/hypertension-africa-research-team-hart/population-outcome-research
Population outcome research
2023-12-05 The PURE study Current PI of South African-leg: Prof Cristian Ricci Supervisor for HART: Prof Yolandi Breet The Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study is a large-scale epidemiological study designed to examine…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/hypertension-africa-research-team-hart/policy-change
Policy change
2023-12-06 The South African strategic plan to reduce cardiovascular disease includes the target to reduce the population intake of salt to less than 5 g/day. At present, the salt intake is higher than this level, with older reports from the…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/hypertension-africa-research-team-hart/prof-alta-ae-schutte
Prof Alta (AE) Schutte
2023-09-15 Alta (Aletta E.) Schutte PhD FESC FRRSAf ISHF is SHARP Professor and Principal Theme Lead of Cardiac, Vascular and Metabolic Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at UNSW Sydney, Australia; with a joint appointment as Professorial Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health. She is a NHMRC Investigator Grant Leadership Fellow. She…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/hypertension-africa-research-team-hart/asos-project
The ASOS project
2023-09-15 Principal Investigator: Prof R Kruger The Arterial Stiffness in Offspring Study (ASOS) is a cross-sectional, observational study that investigates the trends of elevated blood pressure, arterial stiffness and body composition in young school children between…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/hypertension-africa-research-team-hart/endoafrica-project
The EndoAfrica project
2023-09-15 Principal Investigator EndoAfrica study: Prof Carla Fourie EndoAfrica study: The putative interface of emerging cardiovascular risk factors affecting populations living with and without HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. The EndoAfrica study is a collaboration…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/hypertension-africa-research-team-hart/sabpa-study
The SABPA study
2023-09-15 Principal Investigator: Prof L Lammertyn The Sympathetic activity and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans (SABPA) Prospective Cohort study The evidence in more than 10 000 Africans of the North-West Province of South Africa that taxing environmental…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/hypertension-africa-research-team-hart/pure-study
The PURE study
2023-09-15 Principal Investigators for the Cardiovascular Assessments in PURE: Prof CMT Fourie and Prof AE Schutte The Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study is a longitudinal, multinational study including 17 low-, middle…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/hypertension-africa-research-team-hart/prof-martin-magnusson
Prof Martin Magnusson
2023-09-19 Martin Magnusson currently heads a research group of 7 people, two PhD students, two post docs and three research nurses. He has been main tutor for one completed PhD project ”Metabolic actions of atrial natriuretic peptide”. Martin Magnusson is the head (PI) of three major on-going prospective major research projects 1) Competence Centre Heart…https://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/phasrec/phasrec-positionsvacancies