Lydia U. Egua, Afis A. Agboola, Nurudeen O. Ibrahim, Emmanuel S. Abayomi, Nafiu O. Adenle & Lere P. Oluwadare·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2026
Background: Cardiometabolic risk factors (hypertension, diabetes mellitus and obesity), together with symptoms of depression and anxiety constitute a growing public health challenge in Nigeria. These conditions are increasingly prevalent among adults in peri-urban communities und...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2026/v24i91420
Ibukun A. Okunade, Oluwafemi O. Oyewusi, Adepeju O. Adegoke, Olumide T. Adeleke, Deborah Esan, Peter O. Odeyemi, Stephen A. Adesina, Isaac O. Amole & Adewumi O. Durodola·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2026
Background: The rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) presents a significant global health challenge, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Physical inactivity (PI) which ranked as the fourth leading risk factor for global deaths, alongside with obesity...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2026/v24i31362
Aims: Hypertriglyceridemia, a prevalent lipid disorder linked to cardiovascular disease and metabolic complications, arises from genetic, lifestyle, or secondary factors like diabetes and obesity. While lifestyle changes and conventional treatments help, many patients need altern...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2025/v23i41205
Background: Obesity in pregnancy is on the rise globally, posing additional physiological and logistical challenges to routine obstetric anesthesia practices. Such women display higher incidences of gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders, and operative deliveries, indicatin...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2025/v23i31193
Background: Obesity is a growing world concern, with one-third of the world’s population estimated to be obese or overweight. Obesity affects all age groups, both genders, and different ethnicities at variable rates with an increase in prevalence since 1980 having doubled. Aim: T...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2025/v23i31186
Background and Objective: Obesity is a complex health condition with a steadily increasing global prevalence, posing significant challenges to public health. It is estimated that approximately 1 in 8 individuals worldwide are affected by obesity, with the prevalence among adults...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2024/v22i121136
Introduction: Hypertension has been identified as an important health problem worldwide. It is a major factor in cardiovascular diseases with a resultant high mortality rate. Understanding the role of lifestyle modification in the management of hypertension is important in improv...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2024/v22i101099
Abdullahi Abdulkadir Abdiaziz, Md. Biplob Hossain, Afsana Mahbub, Sadia Islam, Shohanur Rahaman & Md. Ashiqur Rahman·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2024
Background: A lipid profile includes total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, triglycerides, and calculated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Obesity is defined as excess body weight, and dyslipidemia is abnormal blood concentrations of total choles...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2024/v22i71060
To determine if phenotype and the carbohydrate type resulted in alterations in brain composition in the obese phenotype of the congenic LA/Ntul//-cp rat, groups (n= 8 rats/group) of male littermate lean and obese rats were fed standardized isocaloric diets containing 54% (w/w) co...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2023/v21i8841
Background: Obesity is an excess of body fat that cause cardiovascular risk and it prevalence in Cameroon among adults is high. Aims: This study took place in the animal house of the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Dschang between June 2020 and February 2021 and t...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i530330
Aim: With the rise of metabolic disorders like obesity in developed countries, maintenance of healthy lifestyle has become very challenging. Food plays a very important role in this process. Consumption of healthy foods with proper portion control can help in controlling excess w...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i330189
Background: Healthcare providers occupy an important position in the health sector and the economy of a country. Ensuring their sound health goes a long way in maintaining the health of the citizens at large. Metabolic syndrome is described as the constellation of interrelated p...
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Research Article10.9734/AJMAH/2018/43851
High blood pressure is a diet related disease with high incidence of morbidity and mortality. Identification of its diet risk factors will inform intervention for its control. The thrust of this study was to determine the prevalence of hypertension among adult traders in Port Har...
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Research Article10.9734/AJMAH/2018/37430
Aims: The study was conducted between March 2015 and June 2017 to determine the prevalence of cardiometabolic risks in adult men from Dschang Health District in Cameroon. Methodology: After obtaining the ethical clearance, a simplified questionnaire was used for 254 volunteer par...
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Research Article10.9734/AJMAH/2018/39781
William K. B. A. Owiredu, James Osei-Yeboah, Christiana Aryee, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Edwin F. Laing & Isaac K. Owusu·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2018
Despite the extensive use of anthropometric indices in the risk prediction of hypertension, there is lack of consensus on the type and the optimal threshold to be used. This current work evaluates the optimal threshold points, discriminative power and comparative performance as d...
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Research Article10.9734/AJMAH/2017/37772