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 October 17, 2017. Random-effect meta-analysis was used...
Furthermore, five articles in Egypt and one each in Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, and Ghana assess the problem of undernutrition and its indicators in children with CHD (Table 1). Table 1 distribution of included studies on the prevalence of under-nutrition among children with congenital heart ...
This finding is in contrast with the study conducted in Kenya [75], Nigeria [76], Iran [77], Canada [78], Norway [79], and USA [80] which stated that inter-professional collaboration significantly increased among nurses and physicians who satisfied with their organization’s support. This ...
The type of oil used during food preparation was categorised as vegetable oil or animal fat (derived from meat products). Physical activity was categorised as active if participants engaged in exercise leading to an increase in heart and respiratory rate, such as gardening, or inactive if they...
Based on the PHQ-9, the prevalence of depression in clinical samples, for example, were as follow: out-patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Bangladesh (15.6%) [24], patients with heart failure (26.0%) [25], adults living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya (31.0%) [26], patients with ...
Differences between communes may be the result of heterogeneous ecological conditions that sustain larval breeding sites and thus facilitate the proliferation of mosquitoes, the vectors of malaria [30]. These vectors mainly determine the distribution and intensity of the disease [30]. In Kenya, for ...
We applied a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and the proportion of people with hypertension who had a previous diagnosis (detection), who were taking medication for hypertension (treatment), and whose hypertension was controlled to below 140/90 mm Hg (control)...
The review of medical records showed that hypertension accounted for 2.5% of total admissions in Ruhengeri district hospital out of which 47.4% presented with severe hypertension. The review highlighted that alcohol consumption, diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure were significantly associated with...
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, ...
Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) are both used to diagnose diabetes, but these measurements can identify different people as having diabetes. We used data from 117 population-based studies and quantified, in different world regions, the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes, and...