Diagnostic Efficiency of Point-Of-Care Lung Ultrasonography in the Diagnosis of Adult Community-Acquired Pneumonia - A Single-Centre Study in Southeastern Nigeria.

Background: Lung ultrasonography is an emerging tool in diagnosing community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) - a major cause of mortality worldwide. The objective of the study was to determine the diagnostic performance of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) of the lung compared to the chest radiograph in the diagnosis of CAP in adults.

Methods: Adults ≥ 18 years presenting at the general and medical outpatient clinics, medical and emergency wards with symptoms of suspected CAP were evaluated using a portable ultrasound device and single posteroanterior chest radiograph.

Prevalence and risk factors of diabetes foot ulcers in Kano, northwestern Nigeria.

Background: Foot complications account for more hospital admissions than any other diabetes mellitus (DM) complications with adverse outcomes being foot ulcers and amputation.

Objective: To determine the prevalence and risk factors of diabetic foot ulcers in Kano, Northwestern Nigeria.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in the diabetes outpatient clinics and medical and surgical wards of two hospitals in Kano, Nigeria.

"What will my child think of me if he hears I gave him HIV?": a sequential, explanatory, mixed-methods approach on the predictors and experience of caregivers on disclosure of HIV status to infected children in Gombe, Northeast Nigeria.

Background: With increasing access to effective Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART), the proportion of children who survive into later childhood with HIV has increased. Consequently, caregivers are constantly being confronted with the dilemma of 'if', 'when', and 'how' to tell their children living with HIV their status. We aimed to determine the prevalence and predictors of disclosure and explore the barriers caregivers face in disclosing HIV status to children living with HIV in Gombe, northeast Nigeria.

Discriminative ability of adiposity measures for elevated blood pressure among adolescents in a resource-constrained setting in northeast Nigeria: a cross-sectional analysis.

Background: Several studies examining the association and discriminative ability of adiposity measures for prehypertension and hypertension among adolescents have reported varying outcomes. We aimed to determine the discriminative ability of the Body Mass index (BMI), Waist Circumference (WC), and Waist-to-Height Ratio (WHtR) adiposity measures for elevated blood pressure (prehypertension and hypertension combined) among adolescents in Gombe, northeast Nigeria.

Methods: This cross-sectional study used a multi-stage sampling technique and involved 367 secondary school adolescent (10-18 years) boys and girls in Gombe Local Government Area, Gombe State, northeast Nigeria from January to September 2015.