Sub-Saharan Africans face an increasing burden of hypertension and related cardiac and cerebrovascular morbidity and mortality, making the identification of factors leading to early vascular abnormalities imperative.
Subject Group Physiology, School for Physiology, Nutrition, and Consumer Sciences, Hypertension in Africa Research Team, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa. rudolph.schutte@nwu.ac.za