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1. Characteristics, treatment, and control of hypertension in public primary healthcare centers in Nigeria: baseline results from the Hypertension Treatment in Nigeria Program

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Dike B, Ojji, Abigail S, Baldridge, Ikechukwu A, Orji, Gabriel L, Shedul, Tunde M, Ojo, Jiancheng, Ye, Aashima, Chopra, Boni M, Ale, Grace, Shedul, Eugenia N, Ugwuneji, Nonye B, Egenti, Kasarachi, Aluka-Omitiran, Rosemary C B, Okoli, Helen, Eze, Ada, Nwankwo, Bolanle, Banigbe, Priya, Tripathi, Namratha R, Kandula, Lisa R, Hirschhorn, and Mark D, Huffman

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Adult, Male, Primary Health Care, Physiology, Nigeria, Blood Pressure, Middle Aged, Article, Hypertension, Internal Medicine, Humans, Female, Medical History Taking, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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BACKGROUND: There are limited data on large-scale, multi-level implementation research studies to improve hypertension diagnosis, treatment, and control rates at the primary health care (PHC) level in Africa. We describe the characteristics, treatment, and control rates of patients with hypertension in public PHC centers in the Hypertension Treatment in Nigeria Program. METHODS: Data were collected from adults ≥18 years at 60 public PHC centers between January 2020 and November 2020. Hypertension treatment rates were calculated at registration and upon completion of the initial visit. Hypertension control rates were calculated based on systolic and diastolic blood pressures

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2022
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2. Left ventricular mass estimation by different partition values in a large population of black hypertensive subjects

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Elena Libhaber, Dike B Ojji, Ngabea Murtala, Bolaji Abdullahi, Anita Nnamonu, Sliwa Karen, Ada Nwankwo, and Jacob Alfa

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medicine.medical_specialty, Population, Large population, Concentric hypertrophy, Physical examination, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Asymptomatic, Teaching hospital, Left ventricular mass, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, education, Research Articles, hypertensives, education.field_of_study, medicine.diagnostic_test, estimation, business.industry, General Medicine, Eccentric hypertrophy, Blacks, partition, Cardiology, mass, medicine.symptom, business, left ventricular, Research Article
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Aims Our aim is to compare the impact of the 2 most widely used methods of indexing left ventricular mass (LVM) on the distribution of abnormal left ventricular (LV) geometric patterns, in a large sample of untreated asymptomatic black hypertensive subjects. Methods and Results All patients with hypertension referred to the Cardiology unit of University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria from 2006 to 2013, who gave informed consent, and underwent physical examination and echocardiography. LVM indexation was classified into 4 geometric patterns after echocardiography: normal geometry, concentric hypertrophy, concentric remodeling, and eccentric hypertrophy. Concentric hypertrophy was the commonest geometric pattern and was detected in 33.6% to 39.5% of the patients. LVM/height2.7 was a better method to detect abnormal geometric pattern than LVM/BSA (P, The 2 most widely used methods of indexing left ventricular mass (LVM) on the distribution of abnormal left ventricular (LV) geometric patterns were applied in a large population of untreated asymptomatic black hypertensive subjects with no clinical evidence of coronary artery disease. Abnormal LV geometry was found in greater than 80% of the population, concentric hypertrophy was the commonest geometric pattern, and LVM indexed for height2.7 was a better method than LVM indexed for BSA in detecting LVH.

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2017

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