Publications by authors named "T C Iyidobi"
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- The study investigates neurocognitive deficits (NCD) in first-episode schizophrenia (FES) patients from Africa, highlighting their prevalence and changes over 8 weeks of treatment, compared to healthy controls (HC).
- Among the FES group, 62.9% showed NCD after 8 weeks, significantly higher than just 1.2% in the HC group, with improvements in cognitive function noted at each follow-up.
- The results indicate that better cognitive performance in FES correlates with lower psychopathology scores, suggesting a potential link between cognitive function and overall mental health outcomes in schizophrenia.
Introduction: The elderly hypertensive patients often have increased prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors and their attendant co-morbidities. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors and blood pressure control among elderly hypertensive patients, and to determine the influence of modifiable cardiometabolic risk factors on the control of hypertension among elderly hypertensive patients.
Subjects And Methods: A case-control comparative and hospitalbased study involving a total of 190 consenting elderly (>65 years), hypertensive patients (subjects) (n=100) and normotensive controls (n=90) was carried out over a period of ten months.
Background: Despite robust evidence of the huge burden of caregiving amongst caregivers of patients with schizophrenia, there is a paucity of data in Africa on the interventions to address this enormous burden of caregiving.
Aim: This study aimed to determine the effect of structured psychoeducation intervention on the burden of caregiving in comparison with 'care as usual' in a Nigerian Psychiatric Hospital.
Setting: This study was done at the out-patient and in-patient units of the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria.
Marfan syndrome is an uncommon inheritable connective tissue disease which affects the cardiovascular system. This paper presents two cases of Marfan Syndrome with predominant aortic root disease that were seen at the Cardiology Clinic of University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria. Their biography, clinical features and echocardiography parameters were captured using structured questionnaire.
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