Otonye Briggs

Pattern of Arrhythmia among Diabetes Mellitus Patients in South-South, Nigeria: 24-Hour Ambulatory ECG (Holter ECG) Study

Chibuike Eze Nwafor & Otonye Briggs · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2024

Background: Diabetes is known to be an independent risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, commonly associated with rhythm disorders like atrial fibrillation (AF) and ventricular arrhythmias (VA), Diabetes Mellitus (DM) patients have silent myocardial infarctions...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2024/v22i61032

Pattern of Arrhythmia among Ischemic Stroke Patients on 24-hour Ambulatory Electrocardiography (Holter ECG) in South-South Nigeria

Chibuike Eze Nwafor & Otonye Briggs · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2024

Background: The 24-hour Holter electrocardiogram is a valuable tool for the identification of ischaemic alterations, cardiac arrhythmias in hypertension, stroke and other cardiovascular conditions. Electrocardiographic (ECG) abnormalities and cardiac arrhythmias have been detecte...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2024/v22i61031

Pattern of Arrhythmia among Hypertensive Patients in South-South, Nigeria: A 24-H Ambulatory ECG (Holter ECG) Study

Chibuike Eze Nwafor & Otonye Briggs · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2024

Background: Regular 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) often fail to detect cardiac conduction abnormalities. Among hypertensive patients, conduction irregularities such as atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia are recognized occurrences and these can be intermittent or as...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2024/v22i61014