Intraocular pressure and arterial blood pressure correlation in pregnant and postmenopausal Nigerian women.

Objective: Intraocular pressure (IOP) has been reported to be associated with systemic blood pressure (SBP) in population based studies. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between IOP and arterial blood pressure in pregnant and menopausal Nigerian women.

Method: A longitudinal study of a hundred pregnant women aged 20 to 35 years (mean +/- SD 27 +/- 2.

Ocular changes in pregnant Nigerian women.

Objective: Pregnancy results in a lot of hormonal changes in the body and the eyes are no exception. These ocular changes could be physiologic, pathologic or a modification of a pre-existing condition. The aim of this study was to determine physiologic ocular changes that are associated with pregnancy in healthy Nigerian women.

Intraocular pressure in pregnant and non-pregnant Nigerian women.

A number of hormones are known to affect intraocular pressure. Of these, the female sex hormones are the predominant ones to cause variations in intraocular pressure. The aim of this study was to determine if variation in sex hormones in pregnancy affects intraocular pressure.

Sex variations in the haemorheological parameters of some hypertensive nigerians as compared to normotensives.

Sex variations in some haemorheological parameters: Haematocrit (Hct), Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR), Hemoglobin concentration (Hbc), Fibrinogen concentration (FC), Relative Plasma Viscosity (RPV) and Whole Blood Relative Viscosity (WBRV) were determined in 30 male and 20 female hypertensive subjects without complications, aged between 30 and 70 years. 30 male and 20 female normotensive subjects aged between 29 and 71 years, matched for age, weight and height with the hypertensive group served as control. In both groups all the parameters were determined using methods previously described by various workers.

Changes in blood pressure and serum cholesterol following exercise training in Nigerian hypertensive subjects.

The effect of exercise training on blood pressure (BP) and serum cholesterol level was studied in hypertensive Nigerians. Fifty-eight subjects aged 30-65 years completed the study. They exercised on a cycle ergometer at 70% maximum O2 consumption.

Differential effects of prostanoid synthesis inhibitors on cicletanine-induced relaxation of isolated human epigastric arteries.

We have examined the influence of prostanoid synthesis inhibitors on the relaxation responses induced by cicletanine in ring preparations of isolated human epigastric arteries following precontraction induced by 10(-7) M noradrenaline. Cicletanine caused concentration-dependent relaxations, uninfluenced by the cyclooxygenase inhibitors, meclofenamate (1, 10 microM) and indomethacin (1, 10 microM) but significantly (p < 0.05) attenuated by the specific prostacyclin synthesis inhibitor, tranylcypromine (0.