Publications by authors named "Nana Ama Barnes"
Background: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) management exerts a considerable financial burden on patients, caregivers, and developing nations at large. In Ghana, a key governments effort to attenuate the financial burden of T1D on patients was to fashion safety-net mechanisms through financial risk pooling/sharing known as the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). However, there is limited research on patients and caregivers' experiences with the cost of managing T1D within the NHIS in Ghana.
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- - The study aimed to analyze trends in type 1 diabetes (T1D) diagnoses over 28 years at a teaching hospital in Kumasi, Ghana, amidst a lack of information on the disease in sub-Saharan Africa.
- - A total of 1717 individuals with T1D were enrolled, revealing a male-to-female ratio of 1:1.2, with a noted increase in diagnoses among adolescents (ages 10-19) while seeing a decline in diagnoses for younger children (ages 0-9) over the years.
- - Overall, the research indicated a general decrease in T1D enrolments, with a contrasting rise in cases among adolescents during the study period from 1992 to 201
Background: Endocrine disorders have been noted to be on the increase in the developing world, but little is known about their outcomes on the African continent.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective longitudinal study to evaluate the demographic characteristics and determinants of endocrine-related mortality among adult patients over 9 y in a leading tertiary hospital in Ghana. We determined the predictors of inpatient mortality using Kaplan-Meier survival curves and Cox proportional hazard regression analysis.