Evaluation of antioxidant status of female diabetic patients in Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Anambra State, Nigeria.

Diabetes mellitus has become an onerous disease to developing countries such as Nigeria. Rapid acceptance of urbanisation and sedentary life styles pose an encumbrance to its prevention and management. Increased oxidative stress in diabetes mellitus has been implicated as a culprit in perpetuating antioxidant depletion and diabetic complications in diabetes mellitus individuals.

Epidemiology of stroke in a rural community in Southeastern Nigeria.

Background: The prevalence and incidence of stroke vary from community to community worldwide. Nonetheless, not much is known about the current epidemiology of stroke in rural Nigeria and indeed Africa.

Methods: We carried out a two-phase door-to-door survey in a rural, predominantly low-income, community in Anambra, Southeastern Nigeria.

Photometric facial analysis of the Igbo Nigerian adult male.

Background: A carefully performed facial analysis can serve as a strong foundation for successful facial reconstructive and plastic surgeries, rhinoplasty or orthodontics.

Aim: The purpose of this study is to determine the facial features and qualities of the Igbo Nigerian adult male using photometry.

Materials And Methods: One hundred and twenty subjects aged between 18 and 28 years were studied at the Anambra State University, Uli, Nigeria.

Illness concept among people with epilepsy and their caregivers and preferred treatment methods in a suburban community in Southeast Nigeria.

Background: Epilepsy, one of the world's most prevalent chronic diseases is still regarded as a supernatural disease in many parts of the world. These superstitious and cultural beliefs tend to influence treatment seeking behavior of people living with epilepsy (PWE) and their caregivers.

Study Design: People living with epilepsy in a semi-urban community in Southeast Nigeria were identified in a two phase door-to-door cross-sectional descriptive study.

Epilepsy treatment gap: prevalence and associated factors in Southeast Nigeria.

Objectives: The treatment gap of epilepsy in developing countries is high, and data on the magnitude and causes of epilepsy treatment gap in Africa are sparse. We aimed to determine the prevalence and causes of epilepsy treatment gap among people with epilepsy in a Suburban community in Southeast Nigeria.

Materials And Methods: The direct method was used to determine epilepsy treatment gap in a two-phase cross-sectional study.