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Computed tomography patterns of intracranial infarcts in a Ghanaian tertiary facility
CONCLUSION: Apart from the loss of grey-white matter differentiation, there was no significant association between the other CT scan features and sex. Generally, most of the risk factors and the CT scan features were significantly associated with increasing age.FUNDING: None declared.PMID:35919779 | PMC:PMC9334949 | DOI:10.4314/gmj.v56i1.5
Source: Ghana Medical Journal - August 3, 2022 Category: African Health Authors: Emmanuel K M Edzie Klenam Dzefi-Tettey Philip N Gorleku Edmund K Brakohiapa Peter Appiah-Thompson Kwasi Agyen-Mensah Michael K Amedi Frank Quarshie Evans Boadi Joshua M Kpobi Richard A Edzie Abdul R Asemah Source Type: research

Outcome of Pregnancy in Saudi Women with Sickle Cell Disease Attending the Tertiary Care University Hospital in Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
This study was carried out to compare the fetomaternal outcome in patients with SCD with those without SCD. This was a retrospective cohort study done in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia in a tertiary care, teaching hospital, by retrieving the data through the code ICD-9 for SCD, the control group was also selected with comparable characteristics. A total of 302 SCD pregnant patients were included for comparison with 600 pregnant women without SCD as control, during the period of Jan 1, 2008 to December 31, 2018. After the data retrieval, percentages of complications were calculated between the study and control groups...
Source: African Journal of Reproductive Health - November 30, 2019 Category: African Health Tags: Afr J Reprod Health Source Type: research

Burden and factors associated with post-stroke depression in East central Nigeria
Conclusion: Age could be a risk factor for PSD, which was more prevalent in the elderly than young/middle-age adults, female gender, left cerebral lesion, complications, cold case; those living with a spouse, self-employed and unemployed.Keywords: Symptoms of post-stroke depression, modifiable characteristics of the vulnerable patients, African socio-cultural context
Source: African Health Sciences - September 17, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: research

Distribution of symptoms of post-stroke depression in relation to some characteristics of the vulnerable patients in socio-cultural context
Conclusion: Age could be a risk factor for PSD, which was more prevalent in the elderly than young/middle-age adults, female gender, left cerebral lesion, complications, cold case; those living with a spouse, self-employed and unemployed.Keywords: Symptoms of post-stroke depression, modifiable characteristics of the vulnerable patients, African socio-cultural context
Source: African Health Sciences - May 22, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: research

When darkness falls at mid-day: young patients' perceptions and meanings of chronic illness and their implications for medical care.
CONCLUSION: Young adults diagnosed of certain chronic illnesses ascribe supernatural interpretations to their disease condition. These determine their attitude to their condition as well as health seeking behaviours adopted by them and their families. Responses interfered with their biomedical care and thus have implications for health promotion and healthcare planning and policy. PMID: 23661817 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: Ghana Medical Journal - December 12, 2015 Category: African Health Tags: Ghana Med J Source Type: research