Evaluation of routine health monitoring for metabolic disorders in patients with serious mental illness on psychotropic medications: a study from Ethiopia.

Background: Compared to the overall population, patients with mental health problems are more likely to experience concurrent physical illnesses, poorer health outcomes, and mortality. Psychotropic medications, which are the pillars in the management of mental health conditions, are associated with adverse effects such as weight gain, an increased level of glucose, and elevated circulating lipid levels, all of which contribute to metabolic disorders. Inadequate health monitoring may led to suboptimal interventions and worsening of these conditions.

Early Labor Posterior Uterine Wall Rupture in a Primigravid Mother with Successful Repair and Live Birth: A Case Report.

Background: Posterior uterine wall rupture is extremely uncommon in the absence of any of the commonly recognized risk factors. Even though uterine rupture is more likely in multiparous people, it cannot be believed that the uterus of a primigravid is impervious to rupture. The objective of this case report is to alert obstetricians about atypical posterior uterine wall rupture presentation in the absence of identifiable risk factors and to emphasize the worth of prompt action.

Analysis of global Napier grass (Cenchrus purpureus) collections reveals high genetic diversity among genotypes with some redundancy between collections.

Genetic diversity amongst genotypes of several Napier grass collections was analyzed and compared with the diversity in a set of open pollinated progeny plants. A total of 114,881 SNP and 46,293 SilicoDArT genome-wide markers were generated on 574 Napier grass genotypes. Of these, 86% of the SNP and 66% of the SilicoDArT markers were mapped onto the fourteen chromosomes of the Napier grass genome.

Early discontinuation of long-acting reversible contraceptives at four government hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Objective: Given high unmet need for contraception in Ethiopia, this study aimed to determine prevalence and factors associated with early discontinuation of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC).

Methods: This institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted with 389 participants using exit interviews with clients presenting for removal of LARC at the family planning clinic of four government hospitals in Addis Ababa. SPSS version 26 was used for analysis.

Productivity and Feed Quality Performance of Napier Grass () Genotypes Growing under Different Soil Moisture Levels.

In the semi-arid and arid environments of Sub-Sharan Africa, forage availability throughout the year is insufficient and highly limited during the dry seasons due to limited precipitation. Thus, the identification of drought stress-tolerant forage cultivars is one of the main activities in forage development programs. In this study, Napier grass (), an important forage crop in Eastern and Central Africa that is broadly adapted to produce across tropical environments, was evaluated for its water use efficiency and production performance under field drought stress conditions.

Insights Into the Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits in Napier Grass () and QTL Regions Governing Forage Biomass Yield, Water Use Efficiency and Feed Quality Traits.

Napier grass is the most important perennial tropical grass native to Sub-Saharan Africa and widely grown in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, primarily as a forage crop for animal feed, but with potential as an energy crop and in a wide range of other areas. Genomic resources have recently been developed for Napier grass that need to be deployed for genetic improvement and molecular dissection of important agro-morphological and feed quality traits. From a diverse set of Napier grass genotypes assembled from two independent collections, a subset of 84 genotypes (although a small population size, the genotypes were selected to best represent the genetic diversity of the collections) were selected and evaluated for 2 years in dry (DS) and wet (WS) seasons under three soil moisture conditions: moderate water stress in DS (DS-MWS); severe water stress in DS (DS-SWS) and, under rainfed (RF) conditions in WS (WS-RF).

Physiological and transcriptional response to drought stress among bioenergy grass Miscanthus species.

Background: Miscanthus is a commercial lignocellulosic biomass crop owing to its high biomass productivity, resilience and photosynthetic capacity at low temperature. These qualities make Miscanthus a particularly good candidate for temperate marginal land, where yields can be limited by insufficient or excessive water supply. Differences in response to water stress have been observed among Miscanthus species, which correlated to origin.

Intimate partner violence among prenatal care attendees amidst the COVID-19 crisis: The incidence in Ethiopia.

Objective: To assess the incidence and predictors of intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at the prenatal care clinic of St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, among pregnant women from 31 August to 2 November 2020.

Author Correction: Genotyping by sequencing provides new insights into the diversity of Napier grass (Cenchrus purpureus) and reveals variation in genome-wide LD patterns between collections.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

Genotyping by sequencing provides new insights into the diversity of Napier grass (Cenchrus purpureus) and reveals variation in genome-wide LD patterns between collections.

Napier grass is an important tropical forage-grass and of growing potential as an energy crop. One-hundred-five Napier grass accessions, encompassing two independent collections, were subjected to genotyping by sequencing which generated a set of high-density genome-wide markers together with short sequence reads. The reads, averaging 54 nucleotides, were mapped to the pearl millet genome and the closest genes and annotation information were used to select candidate genes linked to key forage traits.

Genetic structure and relationships within and between cultivated and wild korarima [Aframomum corrorima (Braun) P.C.M. Jansen] in Ethiopia as revealed by simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers.

Background: Korarima [Aframomum corrorima (Braun) P.C.M.

Quality of family planning counseling among women attending prenatal care at a hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Objective: To assess the quality of family planning counseling among women attending a prenatal clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Methods: In a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted between February and April, 2015, at the prenatal care clinic of Saint Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, pregnant women in their third trimester were interviewed about their experience of family planning counseling. Data were collected via a questionnaire.

Enhancing Neoplasm Expression in Field Pea (Pisum sativum) via Intercropping and Its Significance to Pea Weevil (Bruchus pisorum) Management.

Neoplasm formation, a non-meristematic tissue growth on young field pea (Pisum sativum L.) pods is triggered in the absence of UV light and/or in response to oviposition by pea weevil (Bruchus pisorum L.).

Assessment of genetic diversity in Ethiopian field pea (Pisum sativum L.) accessions with newly developed EST-SSR markers.

Background: Field pea (Pisum sativum L.) is among the prominent crops in the world as food and feed. There are relatively few simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers developed from expressed sequence tags (ESTs) in P.

Patterns of domestication in the Ethiopian oil-seed crop noug (Guizotia abyssinica).

Noug (Guizotia abyssinica) is a semidomesticated oil-seed crop, which is primarily cultivated in Ethiopia. Unlike its closest crop relative, sunflower, noug has small seeds, small flowering heads, many branches, many flowering heads, and indeterminate flowering, and it shatters in the field. Here, we conducted common garden studies and microsatellite analyses of genetic variation to test whether high levels of crop-wild gene flow and/or unfavorable phenotypic correlations have hindered noug domestication.