Introduction: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevalence in Kenya is rising. Overweight, prehypertension and physical inactivity at younger ages is contributory. These risk factors are inadequately documented among Kenyan children and adolescents, hampering CVD prevention. Methods: ...
The prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa, a region previously thought to suffer mainly from infectious diseases only. The recently observed trend of increasing sedentary lifestyles in Kenya [1,2] is likely to contribute to the increased prevalence of CVD an...
Prevalence of hypertension and associated cardiovascular risk factors in an urban slum in Nairobi, Kenya: A population-based survey. Background Urbanisation has been described as a key driver of the evolving non-communicable disease (NCD) epidemic. In Africa, hypertension is the commones... Joshi...
Anaemia in patients with rheumatoid arthritis at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya Rheumatoid arthritis {RA} is a chronic inflammatory auto-immune disease which primarily affects the joints. Anemia is the commonest extra-articular manifestation of RA. Anemia is an independent predictor of...
Among patients with hypertension, statins have been shown to lower plasma levels of LDL-C12. While their HDL-C raising ability varies, their overall cardiovascular disease risk lowering properties are well established13. Nevertheless, a negligent health care system that fails to identify high risk ...
Overweight and obesity rates continue to rise globally and are associated with increased chronic disease morbidity and mortality. There is evidence of high overweight and obesity prevalence in Kenya, however; a gap exists in the knowledge of national prevalence and predictors of overweight and obesity...
Several African countries had among the highest levels of anemia in both years, including Senegal, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, eastern Ghana, southern Benin, central Niger, Nigeria, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Egypt, ...
The national annual incidence of maternal near miss was 7.2 per 1,000 live births in Kenya [11], 22.1 per 1000 live births in Sudan [12], and 23.6 per 1,000 live births in Tanzania [13]. In Uganda, the MNM rate was 287.7/1000 pregnancies [14]. Maternal near miss in Ethiopia range...
This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to provide a contemporaneous estimate of the global burden of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) from echocardiographic population-based studies. We searched multiple databases between January 01, 1996 and Octobe
HIV has classically been a wasting disease. However, in the United States, obesity is increasingly common among HIV-infected individuals receiving effectiv... ES Engelson,D Agin,S Kenya,... - 《Metabolism-clinical & Experimental》 被引量: 96发表: 2006年 Comparison of MRI-assessed body fat ...