L'hypertension artérielle maligne (HTAM) est un problème de santé publique en Afrique subsaharienne. L'objectif de cette étude était de décrire le profil épidémio-clinique et les facteurs pronostiques de l’HTAM à Fousseyni DAOU de Kayes.
Méthodes. Nous avons réalisé une étude rétrospectiv...
Introdução: As mortes em mulheres são consideradas um dos grandes desafios da saúde pública mundial, emespecial em países em desenvolvimento, uma vez que a maioria das mortes são por causas evitáveis. Pretende-secom este estudo identificar as principais causas biológicas e sociais das mortes de ...
Macicame, Ivalda;
Kante, Almamy M;
Wilson, Emily;
Gilbert, Brian;
Koffi, Alain;
Nhachungue, Sheila;
Monjane, Celso;
Duce, Pedro;
Adriano, Antonio;
Chicumbe, Sergio;
Jani, Ilesh;
Kalter, Henry D;
Datta, Abhirup;
Zeger, Scott;
Black, Robert E;
Gudo, Eduardo Samo;
Amouzou, Agbessi.
Sub-Saharan Africa lacks timely, reliable, and accurate national data on mortality and causes of death (CODs). In 2018 Mozambique launched a sample registration system (Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action [COMSA]-Mozambique), which collects continuous birth, death, and COD data from 700 randoml...
The population of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) African Region was estimated to be 1 120 161 000 in 2020 and about 14.4% of the world’s population of 7 758 157 000. It was 8 billion in 20211 . It is the third largest population among the WHO regions after South-East Asia and the Western Pacif...
Objectives: Birth defects are universal problems associated with poor management outcomes in children,especially in developing countries where its burden is enormous. Media advocacy is believed to help in reducing these poor outcomes. This study assessed the level of awareness of birth defects in women a...
Background: Gauteng province (GP) was one of the most affected provinces in the country during the first two pandemic waves in South Africa. We aimed to describe the characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients admitted in one of the largest quaternary hospitals in GP during the first ...
Introduction: Tetanus is a major health problem in developing countries, and is associated with high a morbidity and mortality. There are no recent local data in Kenya on the impact of the disease in terms of morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to describe the type, severity, risk fa...
Background. Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of under-5 death in South Africa and accounts for a substantial burden of paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admissions. However, little is known about PICU outcomes in HIV-exposed uninfected (HIV-EU) children with pneumonia, despite the growing size...
Contexte et objectif. Le risque d’accident vasculaire cérébral (AVC) augmente avec l’âge. Notre objectif était d’identifier les caractéristiques épidémiologiques, cliniques et les facteurs liés au pronostic vital des sujets âgés hospitalisés pour AVC ischémique (AVCI) au Centre Hospital...
Although severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection caused more than five million deaths throughout the world and more than five thousand deaths in Libya, a little is known about the mortality rate and the risk factors for death from this serious infectious disease in Libya. T...