Serum reference intervals of micronutrients, vitamins, and interleukins among healthy adults in South-Western Nigeria.

Objectives: Clinical decision making depends mostly on appropriate application of numerical pathology reports from laboratory results, interpreted by comparison with reference intervals. We determined serum reference intervals of micronutrients, vitamins, and detectable interleukins among healthy adults in South-Western Nigeria.

Design And Methods: This prospective study used a priori selection approach in blood-donors.

Profile of Acute Poisoning among Adult Patients at the Emergency Room of a Tertiary Hospital, South-western Nigeria.

Background And Objective: Acute poisoning often presents as an acute medical condition necessitating prompt medical care. Few data exist on adult poisoning and management protocol often are inadequate. Assessing the cases may inform a more robust protocol for case management, necessitating this study.

Plasma and Tissue Trace Element Levels in Drug Naïve Patients with Schizophrenia in a Tertiary Health Facility in Southwest Nigeria.

Background: Trace elements are involved in oxidation reduction reactions in the body, including the central nervous system. The relationship between trace elements and psychiatric disorders have not been extensively investigated in the local population. We assessed the relationships between selected trace elements and schizophrenia.

WITHDRAWN: Serum Levels of Micronutrients, Magnesium, and Mark-ers of Immunity (CD4+) in Antiretroviral-naïve HIV-infected Individuals: Relationships and Predictors.

Unlabelled: Since the authors are not responding to the editor’s requests to fulfil the editorial requirement, therefore, the article has been withdrawn from the journal "Infectious Disorders - Drug Targets" Bentham Science apologizes to the readers of the journal for any inconvenience this may have caused. The Bentham Editorial Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://benthamscience.com/editorial-policies-main.

Risk Factor Characterization of Ischemic Stroke Subtypes Among West Africans.

Background And Purpose: To identify the qualitative and quantitative contributions of conventional risk factors for occurrence of ischemic stroke and its key pathophysiologic subtypes among West Africans.

Methods: The SIREN (Stroke Investigative Research and Educational Network) is a multicenter, case-control study involving 15 sites in Ghana and Nigeria. Cases include adults aged ≥18 years with ischemic stroke who were etiologically subtyped using the A-S-C-O-D classification into atherosclerosis, small-vessel occlusion, cardiac pathology, other causes, and dissection.