This is particularly important because Gyasi, Simiyu, and Bagayoko [12] have found that chronic diseases (such as hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, and Alzheimer’s) among older adults are closely associated with using unimproved sanitation facilities. Gaffan et al.'s [13] analysis of Benin’...
The causal association between the consumption of highly processed foods and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, and coronary heart disease, has been well-established. Unhealthy dietary habits are a significant global risk factor for NCDs, and enhanced public health ...
A qualitative analysis of factors influencing health-seeking behavior of people living with HIV, hypertension and diabetes in an urban area of Ghana. J Multimorbidity Comorbidity. 2022;12:26335565221092664. Article Google Scholar Perreira CL. Health-Seeking Behaviors in Rural West Ghana. 2017. Sarfo...
Descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, frequencies, and percentages, univariate analyses were computed. Prevalence of dementia for the total sample, and male-female stratified sample with their associated confidence intervals were calculated. A series of logistic regression models were ...
Quantifying usability: an evaluation of a diabetes mHealth system on effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction metrics with associated user characteristics. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2016;23(1):5–11. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocv099. Cited 2024 Mar 20. Article PubMed Google Scholar ...
This was a health facility-based descriptive cross-sectional study among 432 adults living with cancer, diabetes, chronic kidney disease (CKD), stroke, and hypertension in the Ho Municipality of Ghana. The study adopted the EQ-5D-5L instrument and the Ugandan value set to compute respondents’ ...
The rationale, conceptual framework, design and methodology of the Research on Obesity and Diabetes among African Migrants (RODAM) study have been previously described elsewhere in detail [9], and will be summarized here. 2.1. Study population and study design The RODAM study was carried out betwe...
Weight management, low type 2 diabetes risk, low blood pressure, and cardio-protective effect have been positively linked with the consumption of dairy foods [33,35]. These foods possess physiological functions aside from their conventional nutritional roles due to the presence of biologically active...
(p= 0.01 andp< 0.01 respectively). No significant differences for the slopes in all three Na: K groups was found for PP (Fig.3). Among the high salt group (> 9 g/d), univariate analysis showed a significant relationship between age, father’s education, diabetes, K and ...
With over 600 mil- lion people projected to be living with diabetes by 2040 [9], the number of people with diabetic retinopathy and resulting VIs is expected to rapidly rise, particularly among the economically active younger age groups in regions including sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) [1, 10, ...