Increased Risk of Migraine among Students with Asthma: Results of Headache and Asthma Study among University Students.

Background: Several studies in developed countries have investigated the relationship between migraine and asthma.

Objective: To examine the relationship between asthma and migraine among university students in a low middle-income country.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study across three universities in the middle belt region of Nigeria.

Magnesium Supplementation did not affect the Antiseizure Property of Ketogenic Diet but Reduced Lipid Dysmetabolism.

Background: Ketogenic diets (KD) have been used globally in epilepsy management. Similarly, supplementation of diets with magnesium has been associated with disease prevention and improvement. However, the effect of magnesium (Mg) supplementation in conjunction with KD on epilepsy has not yet been investigated.

Burden of Care and Psychological Distress in Primary Caregivers of Patients with Type -2 Diabetes Mellitus in A Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria.

Background: Caregivers play an important role in the management and care of individuals with chronic medical conditions. This is because; they provide emotional, physical, financial as well as spiritual support to their wards. However, the process of caregiving is usually associated with feelings of burden and psychological distress.

Antiseizure Effects of Ketogenic Diet on Seizures Induced with Pentylenetetrazole, 4-Aminopyridine and Strychnine in Wistar Rats.

The ketogenic diet (KD) is a cheap and effective alternative therapy for most epilepsy. There are paucity of experimental data in Nigeria on the usefulness of KD in epilepsy models. This is likely to be responsible for the poor clinical acceptability of the diet in the country.

Knowledge and practice of hypertensive patients as seen in a tertiary hospital in the middle belt of Nigeria.

Background: Hypertension remains the commonest non-communicable disease in Nigeria and a leading cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Knowledge and practice among hypertensive patients were therefore assessed as a prelude towards attaining better blood pressure control.

Materials And Method: 224 consecutive hypertensive patients were prospectively studied using a pre-tested questionnaire.

Glycated haemoglobin and glycaemic control of diabetics in Ilorin.

Objectives: With increasing adoption of Western Lifestyle in Nigeria, the incidence of Diabetes Mellitus is on the increase in the country with its attendant complications. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of patients at risk of developing diabetic complications in Ilorin, Nigeria, among our patients with diabetes mellitus.

Methods: A cross-sectional study of diabetic patients attending the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital ted haemoglobin as an index of medium term glucose control was assayed in established diabetics.

Pattern and outcome of medical admission of elderly patients seen at University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin.

The elderly are increasingly been hospitalised into medical wards in Nigeria and little information is currently available on this group of patients. The objective of this study was to describe the demographic, clinical characteristics and outcome of management of elderly patients admitted into medical wards at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital Ilorin, Nigeria. A retrospective study in which hospital records of patients admitted between years 2001 to 2004 were reviewed.

Determinants of sexual function among women with type 2 diabetes in a Nigerian population.

Introduction: Sexual health is an important but often neglected component of diabetes care. Unlike erectile dysfunction, female sexual dysfunction has not been well studied among Nigerian diabetics.

Aims: To assess the sexual function of women with diabetes, and to determine its clinical correlates.

A 12-year review of cases of adult tetanus managed at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.

In this review, hospital case records of 202 adult tetanus managed between January 1990 and December 2001 in a tertiary institution in Southwestern Nigeria were reviewed. The mean age of the patients was 36.1+/-17.

Prevalence and determinants of erectile dysfunction among people with type 2 diabetes in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Study Objectives: To determine the prevalence and determinants of Erectile Dysfunction (ED) among men with Type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Materials And Methods: Seventy-seven adult men with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus were assessed for Erectile Dysfunction using the 'IIEF-5' questionnaire. They were also assessed for the presence of certain clinical factors in other to determine their degree of correlation with ED.

Andropause: an emerging world health problem.

Andropause is an emerging clinical concept that is gaining an increasing recognition, as the world becomes more aging. The clinical features though subtle are easy to identify and appropriate treatment of diagnosed cases will to a goodextent alleviate a lot of age-related complaints and improve the general quality of life in the elderly men. Low level of clinical suspicion secondary to inadequate knowledge about this clinical entity remains the major obstacle to appropriate treatment.

Diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus in Nigerian pregnant women--comparison between 75G and 100G oral glucose tolerance tests.

Study Objective: To compare the diagnostic performances of 75g and 100g oral glucose tolerance tests in detecting Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Nigerian pregnant women.

Materials And Methods: 248 women in 3rd trimester attending antenatal clinic of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, between November 1997 and July 1999 were randomly subjected to standard oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTT). 110 had 100g OGTT while 138 had 75g OGTT.