Vitamin D and Acute Respiratory Infections in Children.

Background: This study sought to evaluate the association between serum vitamin D levels and acute respiratory infection (ARI) in under-five children in Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) in Nigeria.

Methodology: This study was conducted in NAUTH, Nigeria, in 2017, in 250 children with ARI, classified into those with acute upper respiratory infection (AURI) and those with acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI). and 250 children without ARI, matched for age and gender.

Sociodemographic Factors Influencing Health Care-Seeking Behavior for Pediatric Epilepsy in Southeast Nigeria.

 Early presentation and initiation of appropriate anticonvulsants help in controlling epilepsy and reducing morbidity and mortality associated with epilepsy.  This study aimed to assess the health-seeking behavior for pediatric epilepsy among caregivers in Southeast Nigeria and the associated sociodemographic factors.  This study was a cross-sectional descriptive and questionnaire-based study.

Maternal perception of masking in children as a preventive strategy for COVID-19 in Nigeria: A multicentre study.

Background: The use of face masks by children for the prevention of COVID 19 is still controversial, especially with regards to who should wear the face mask and at what age.

Objectives: The study aimed to ascertain the perception of mothers on masking in children as a preventive strategy for COVID-19.

Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study carried out in two health institutions among 387 mothers who presented with their children for the first time in the hospital during the COVID 19 pandemic.

Hypertension and prehypertension among adolescents attending secondary schools in urban area of South-East, Nigeria.

Introduction: in the past, the need for regular blood pressure screening in children was doubtful, and the main reason against it is that hypertension is an adult illness and there is no evidence that screening healthy children for hypertension was worthwhile. We did this study to determine the prevalence of hypertension and prehypertension as well as some risk factors for hypertension among secondary school adolescents in an urban area of the South-East, Nigeria.

Methods: this was a cross-sectional study of 984 adolescents aged 10-19 years in secondary schools in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra state, South-East, Nigeria.

Demographic and sociocultural characteristics of sickle anaemia children with positive hepatitis B surface antigenaemia in a tertiary health facility in Enugu.

Background: Hepatitis B virus) infection is contracted through contact with body fluid of infected persons. Patients with sickle cell anaemia (SCA), a common haematological disorder in Nigeria, have tendencies to visit traditional healers who administer scarifications and ritual marks that may expose them to HBV infection.

Objective: To determine the demographic and socio-cultural characteristics of children with SCA infected with HBV at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu.