Oscillometric blood pressure profile of adolescent secondary school students in Abakaliki metropolis.

Context: Adolescence is characterized by a tremendous pace in growth, biological, and psychosocial changes. This may translate to rapid increases in anthropometric parameters and indulgence in youth risk behaviors, and these are the risk factors for arterial hypertension (HTN).

Aim: This study aimed to determine the oscillometric blood pressure (BP) profile of apparently healthy secondary school adolescents in Abakaliki metropolis and its relationship with sex and anthropometric variables.

Nutritional status of school age children in Abakaliki metropolis, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.

Background: Malnutrition is a major public health problem with short and long-term adverse effects on children particularly in middle and low-income countries. Three out of every ten under-five children are said to be stunted and 19.4% underweight in Nigeria.

The Prevalence and Case-Fatality Rates of Post-Neonatal Tetanus in a Population of Hospitalized Nigerian Children: An 8-Year Retrospective Review.

Background: Although tetanus is a vaccine-preventable disease, reports indicate that it remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in both neonatal and post-neonatal periods especially in most developing countries.

Aim: This study aimed to determine the prevalence and case fatality rates of post-neonatal tetanus among children managed at the Federal Medical Centre Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria over 8 years.

Method: The study was a retrospective review of the records of the children above 1 month of age admitted into Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, with a clinical diagnosis of tetanus from January 2008 to May 2016.