Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Self-care practices in patient living with diabetes are important to effectively prevent, manage, and limit complications associated with diabetes as patients spend more time alone than they spent with health care providers in managing their health conditions.Aims: The aim of the study was to evaluate self-cate practices and their determinants in patients living with type 2 diabetes. Hence, this study aimed at assessing self-care practices an...

Background: One of the rarely documented endocrine disorders in African setting is pseudo-haemaphroditism. Female pseudo-haemaphroditism (virilized female) is characterized by the presence of 46XX karyotype, ovaries, normal mullerian duct structures, absent wolffian duct structures and virilised genitalia due to androgens in-utero. The commonest cause is Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.Aim: To highlight the challenge in investig...

Background: One of the rarely documented endocrine disorders in African setting is pseudo-haemaphroditism. Female pseudo-haemaphroditism (virilized female) is characterized by the presence of 46XX karyotype, ovaries, normal mullerian duct structures, absent wolffian duct structures and virilised genitalia due to androgens in-utero. The commonest cause is Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.Aim: To highlight the challenge in investig...

Background: Premature ejaculation (PE) is believed to be one of the most common male sexual disorders across all age groups. However its prevalence and risk factors has been rarely investigated among Nigerians. Hence, the study determined the prevalence and risk factors for erectile dysfunction (ED) especially PE among this populace.Subjects and methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted on seventy-three (73) males aged 18-75years who were sexual...

Background: Both obesity and presence of certain patterns of lipid abnormalities has consistently been identified as a strong determinants of cardiovascular health. In resource limited populations, it is important to ascertain methods of reducing resources utilisation by identifying simple measures to cardiovascular risk. Considering the relative ease of measuring anthropometries (BMI, waist circumference-WC, and waist-hip ratio-WHR) data, we sought to determine if any measure...