Finnish diabetes risk score outperformed triglyceride-glucose index in diabetes risk prediction.

Purpose: Triglyceride-Glucose (TyG) index is a surrogate marker of insulin resistance. This study compared the performance of TyG index and the Finnish diabetes risk score (FINDRISC) in diabetes risk prediction.

Methods: This cross-sectional study involved 122 young adults (aged 15-35 years) in Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria.

Sex and race visual representation in emergency medicine textbooks and the hidden curriculum.

Introduction: In addition to formal training, informal training often occurs through a hidden curriculum. As the hidden curriculum shapes the knowledge and values held by learners, we must consider its role in implicit bias. One example is through the selection of images used in formal instruction.

Anthropogenic Influences on Physico-Chemical Quality, Fish and Macrophyte Diversities of River Adofi, Southern Nigeria.

<b>Background and Objective:</b> Freshwater systems support agriculture, industry and even human existence. Pollution due to human activities affect the quality of water bodies thereby threatening biodiversity. This study, therefore, investigated the anthropogenic influences on physico-chemical quality, fish and macrophyte diversities of River Adofi.

Analysis and forecasting of confirmed, death, and recovered cases of COVID-19 infections in Nigeria: Implications for university administrators.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) disease outbreak was a public health emergency of international concern which eventually evolved into a pandemic. Nigeria was locked down in March, 2020 as the country battled to contain the spread of the disease. By August 2020, phase-by-phase easing of the lockdown was commenced and university students will soon return for academic activities.

Update on Peste des petits ruminants status in South East Nigeria: serological and farmers' awareness investigation, and potential risk factors.

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious, trans-boundary viral disease of sheep and goats that have hindered successful small ruminant farming. Its current status in South East Nigeria with respect to its prevalence and farmers' awareness was studied. Three states, Anambra, Ebonyi, and Enugu, were randomly selected for the study.

Prevalence and associated factors of work related musculoskeletal disorders among commercial milling machine operators in South-Eastern Nigerian markets.

Background: Milling machine operators perform physically demanding tasks that can lead to work related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs), but literature on WRMSDs among milling machine operators is scarce. Knowledge of prevalence and risk factors of WRMSDs can be an appropriate base for planning and implementing ergonomics intervention programs in the workplace.

Objective: This study aimed to determine the prevalence, pattern and associated factors of WRMSDs among commercial milling machine operators in Enugu, Nigeria.

The influence of maternal anthropometric characteristics on the birth size of term singleton South-East Nigerian newborn infants.

Objective: This study examined the usefulness of maternal anthropometry in predicting the birth size of term singleton newborn infants at NAUTH, Nnewi, Nigeria.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 301 mother/newborn infant pairs.

Results: The mean birth weight was 3.

Nanoaerosols reduce required effective dose of liposomal levofloxacin against pulmonary murine Francisella tularensis subsp. novicida infection.

Background: The Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics in Moscow recently developed a new nanoaerosol generator. This study evaluated this novel technology, which has the potential to enhance therapeutic delivery, with the goal of using the generator to treat pulmonary Francisella tularensis subsp. novicida (F.

Knowledge, attitude and practice of epilepsy among community residents in Enugu, South East Nigeria.

Purpose: The understanding of the opinions of the Nigerian public about epilepsy and its treatment is relevant to the reduction of the large treatment gap that exists in management of the condition. The major aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitudes of urban dwellers to epilepsy and its treatment and to identify the gaps in knowledge that could pose as barriers in the treatment and care of epilepsy patients within the community.

Method: This cross-sectional and descriptive study was carried out in one of the districts of Enugu metropolis, Nigeria.

Adequacy of resources for provision of maternal health services at the primary health care level in Nnewi, Nigeria.

Background: To determine the adequacy of resources (human and material) for provision of maternal health services at the primary health care (PHC) level in Nnewi, Nigeria.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study of women utilising maternal health services in four public PHC facilities in Nnewi selected using multistage sampling technique was done. Data was collected using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods.

Chitinases are negative regulators of Francisella novicida biofilms.

Biofilms, multicellular communities of bacteria, may be an environmental survival and transmission mechanism of Francisella tularensis. Chitinases of F. tularensis ssp.

Experience with tetanus in a tertiary hospital in south east Nigeria.

Background: Tetanus has for long been an avoidable source of morbidity and mortality particularly in developing countries. The aim of this study was to review the experience with managing tetanus in a regional tertiary hospital in Nigeria.

Methods: A retrospective study of patients who were admitted with a clinical diagnosis of tetanus between January 1999 and December 2003 was done.

Brain cardiac events in Nigerian patients with cocaine abuse.

Epidemiological evidences indicated that substance abuse disorders are increasingly prevalent among Nigerians. The psychosocial deleterious effects of these drugs appear well recognised, but their medical consequences are less often considered in the region. The potential for these drugs to precipitate life threatening cardiac and brain event needs to be reemphasised.

Stroke at the prime of life: a study of Nigerian Africans between the ages of 16 and 45 years.

Sixty-seven patients (27.9%) between 16 and 45 years, out of 240 cases of stroke seen over 33 months were further studied with respect to stroke type, aetiological and social factors. The frequency of non-embolic cerebral infarction was 58.