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Nigeria: Nigeria to Lose $8 Billion to Cardiovascular Diseases By 2026 - Minister
[Vanguard] Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, has cautioned that unless drastic and sustained actions were taken, the economic loss from cardiovascular (heart) diseases, stroke and diabetes in Nigeria could rise to a projected US$8 billion in the next 10 years, according to estimates by the World Health Organisation, WHO.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 1, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigerians Are Dying of Unhealthy Diets - - Minister
[Vanguard] Minister of Health Prof Isaac Adewole, has said that too many Nigerians are dying of unhealthy diet even as he cautioned that the economic loss from Non Communicable Diseases, NCDs, such as stroke, High Blood Pressure (hypertension), heart attack, and diabetes among others, could rise to a projected US$8 billion over the next 10 years in the country,
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 5, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Want to Prevent Stroke, Diabetes, Cancer? Get Moving... Now!
[IPS] Rome -Tired, lazy, bored, laying down long hours watching TV or seated checking your email? Wrong. And dangerous: not enough exercise contributes to cancer, diabetes, depression and other non-communicable diseases.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 13, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda: What Does a Sick Ugandan Do? Good Question
[Monitor] Dear Tingasiga: Three Ugandan politicians have died in the last three weeks. Maria Lubega Mutagamba, a former minister of Tourism died from complications of liver cancer. She was 64. John Ssebaana Kizito, a former government minister, wealthy businessman, mayor of Kampala, political party leader and presidential candidate died from a stroke. He was 82. Kaudha Grace Hailat, the Member of Parliament for Iganga Municipality, died from complications of severe pregnancy-induced hypertension. She was 30.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 11, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Sudan: 14 Cases of Sunstroke As Port Sudan Swelters
[Radio Dabanga] Port Sudan / Khartoum -Fourteen residents who suffered from heat stroke* were recorded in the hospital. In Khartoum state, cancer is the most common death cause, according to the Health Ministry.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 30, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: 1st Lifestyle Clinic Opens in Lagos to Tackle Cancer, Others
[Vanguard] Good news for Nigerians prone to common health issues and disorders related to lifestyle such as diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, stroke , cancer etc., as the 1st lifestyle clinic in the country - Grover Medical's Lifestyle Clinic, in collaboration with Artemis Hospitals Gurgaon, India - made its debut in Lagos recently.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 19, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Angola:Angola With More Than 11.000 New Cases of Stroke
[ANGOP] Luanda -At least 11.490 new cases of cerebral vascular accidents have been recorded to date countrywide, said on Tuesday in Luanda the Secretary of State for Public Health, Manuel Dias da Cunha.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 1, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria:How Painkillers, Kidney Disease Increase Obesity, Diabetes Risk
[Guardian] New research from the largest study of its kind reveals patients taking painkillers alongside medication for heart disease, stroke or diabetes are 95 per cent more likely to become obese as the sedative drugs make people inactive and affect their metabolism.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 12, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria:Tobacco Consumption Contributes 12% Deaths From Heart Diseases - NHF
[This Day] Tobacco use and second-hand smoke is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), including coronary heart disease, stroke and peripheral vascular disease; contributing about 12 per cent death from heart disease, the Nigerian Heart Foundation (NHF), has said.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 17, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda:Foods That Lower High Blood Pressure
[Monitor] High blood pressure is associated with diabetes, stroke, heart disease, kidney failure and death.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 13, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Biochemical markers as diagnostic/prognostic indicators for ischemic disease
Conclusion: Serum enolase can be considered as a more sensitive and specific marker and used as a sensitive diagnostic or prognostic marker for ischemic related diseases.Keywords: Serum enolase, ischemia, hypertension, diagnosis, prognostic.
Source: African Health Sciences - June 21, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: research
Antiphospholipid syndrome – little to no attention in the Ethiopian clinical setting
Epidemiologically prevailing antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is common among the younger population. APS is characterized by recurrent arterial and/or venous thrombosis and miscarriage. Although common among the youth; it has gained little or no consideration in its diagnosis in the Ethiopian clinical setup. We identified a woman with a movement disorder called chorea and recurrent pregnancy loss (abortions). She stayed eight years to be diagnosed with APS. As a devastating disease commonly seen in young patients with stroke, deep vein thrombosis and abortion, physician vigilance to detect APS is invaluable. [Ethiop. J. He...
Source: Ethiopian Journal of Health Development - July 19, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: research
Erratum: Acute ischemic stroke thrombolysis with tenecteplase: An institutional experience from South India
Annals of African Medicine 2018 17(3):162-162
Source: Annals of African Medicine - August 31, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: research
Tanzania:High Rate of Cardiovascular Disease Worries Health Experts
[Daily News] CARDIOVASCULAR diseases like heart attacks and stroke are on the rise in the country, with the main cause being attributed to lifestyle, it has been reported.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 19, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa:Hypertension - the Killer Within That We're Oblivious of
[Daily Maverick] Hypertension is South Africa's biggest epidemic. But most people don't know they have high blood pressure, and few of those on treatment have their blood pressure under control - partly because the medical profession doesn't know what drugs work for Africans. Health-e reports on World Stroke Awareness Day.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 29, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
