Publications by authors named "O O Adeodu"
Background: With the seemingly increasing trend of childhood hypertension, high serum uric acid (SUA) levels might be an indicator of essential hypertension among adolescents.
Objective: To determine the SUA levels of hypertensive students and randomly selected controls and find the association, if any, between SUA level and blood pressure (BP) among secondary school students in Ido-Osi Local Government Area (LGA).
Methodology: The study was a nested case-control study conducted among selected secondary school students in IdoOsi LGA from June 2017 to March 2018.
Article Synopsis
- - Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a major genetic disorder that can lead to serious complications, including eye problems that may result in blindness, with limited understanding of how these ocular issues relate to disease severity among children.
- - A study examined 120 children aged 5 to 15 with SCD in a Nigerian hospital, finding that 60.0% had one or more ocular abnormalities, with a slightly higher prevalence in those with moderate disease compared to mild disease, but the difference was not statistically significant.
- - The findings suggest that eye problems are common among children with SCD regardless of disease severity, indicating the need for regular eye screenings for these patients.
Background: The epidemiology of () infection among under-five children in the South West Nigeria remains largely understudied. There is no data on the subject from the study area.
Objectives: This study was conducted to assess the seroprevalence of infection among under-five children at a tertiary hospital in the South Western, Nigeria and to determine its associated socio-demographic factors.
Iron deficiency, still a rarity in children with sickle cell anemia in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Hematol Transfus Cell Ther
March 2019
In this study, children with sickle cell anemia were evaluated for iron deficiency. Serum ferritin and free erythrocyte protoporphyrin free erythrocyte protoporphyrin (FEP) levels, mean corpuscular volume mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and mean corpuscular hemoglobin mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) were used in determining their iron status. The study was done at Pediatric Hematology Outpatient Clinic of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals' Complex, Ile-Ife.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Beta (β)-endorphins are endogenous neuropeptides found in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of humans but there have been reports of the relationship between the plasma and CSF β-endorphin levels in different clinical conditions. However, the relationship between β-endorphin levels in the plasma and CSF of children with cerebral malaria (CM) has not been reported.
Aim: To determine the relationship between β-endorphin levels in the CSF and plasma of children with CM.