PHYSICIAN, GLOBAL HEALTH EXPERT
PHYSICIAN, GLOBAL
HEALTH EXPERT
HEALTH EXPERT
Four million Nigerians have Type 2 diabetes — Study
According to the lead researcher, Dr. Davies Adeloye, more Nigerians will be affected by the condition unless stakeholders put in place effective public health response and strategies for higher public awareness. He also advocated for lifestyle changes which include healthy diets and physical activity.
High blood pressure puts one in four Nigerians at risk, study says
High blood pressure — also known as hypertension — is twice as high in Nigeria compared with other East African countries and less than 20 per cent of Nigerians are aware that they have the condition. Hypertension puts people at risk of heart disease, kidney disease and stroke.
Why asthma is common chronic disease
Though an asthma patient, this did not stop Jide Olajumoke from enrolling to serve her Country in the compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. She would have opted out, if she knew her dreams would end suddenly, her corpse brought home for burial instead.
Dementia has increased by 400% in Nigeria — Study
A study published by the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the Journal of Global Health Reports, has discovered that dementia has increased astronomically in Nigeria in the last two decades.
The global epidemic that has been found to occur more in low-and-middle-income countries is closely linked to ageing.
High blood pressure puts one in four Nigerians at risk, study says
High blood pressure — already a massive hidden killer in Nigeria — is set to sharply rise as the country adopts western lifestyles, a new study suggests. Researchers who conducted the first up-to-date nationwide estimate of the condition in Nigeria warn that this will strain the country’s already-stretched health system.
Four million Nigerians have Type 2 diabetes — Study
According to the lead researcher, Dr. Davies Adeloye, more Nigerians will be affected by the condition unless stakeholders put in place effective public health response and strategies for higher public awareness. He also advocated for lifestyle changes which include healthy diets and physical activity….
Physical, cognitive, and mental health impacts of COVID-19 after hospitalisation (PHOSP-COVID): a UK multicentre, prospective cohort study
High blood pressure puts one in four Nigerians at risk, study says
High blood pressure – already a massive hidden killer in Nigeria – is set to sharply rise as the
country adopts western lifestyles, a study suggests.
Researchers who conducted the first up-to-date nationwide estimate of the condition in
Nigeria warn that this will strain the country’s already-stretched health system.