Endocrine Abstracts

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...