This report describes clustering of cardiovascular risk factors consistent with the metabolic syndrome found among Nigerian type-2 diabetic (generic Actos is used to treat type II of diabetes) patients. The prevalence of the syndrome is lower than values ranging from 70-80% among Caucasians with type-2 diabetes mellitus. It is, however, higher compared to the recently reported [...]
Two-hundred-fifty-four type-2 diabetic patients, aged 52.0 ± 11.7 years (range: 35-80 years) made up of 154 (60.6%) males and 100 (39.4%) females were studied. One-hundred-thirty-eight patients (54.3%) had concurrent hypertension and diabetes mellitus (Generic Avandia controlling blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes). Of these, hypertension and diabetes were simultaneously diagnosed in 64 [...]
Patients
Two-hundred-seventy-eight indigenous Nigerians with diabetes mellitus attended the medical out patient and inpatient units between January and August 2002 at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH), a major referral centre with a catchment population of about eight million. It is located in Sokoto, northwestern Nigeria (sub-Saharan Africa). The northwestern region of Nigeria is located [...]
INTRODUCTION
Clustered metabolic cardiovascular risk factors, including type-2 diabetes mellitus, essential hypertension, obesity, dyslipidemia and ischemic heart disease, known as the metabolic syndrome, have been well-described. Its prevalence rates range from 13-30% and 70-80% among the Caucasian nondiabetic and diabetic populations, respectively. The age-adjusted prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in an Indian urban population was 24.9%. [...]
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