Adeseye A Akintunde

TL;DR: Marked regional differences in mortality in patients with heart failure persisted after multivariable adjustment for cardiac and non-cardiac factors; variations in mortality between regions could be the result of health-care infrastructure, quality and access, or environmental and genetic factors.

TL;DR: Implementation of interventions targeting these leading risk factors at the population level should substantially curtail the burden of stroke among Africans.

TL;DR: It is shown that MetS is a major health condition among rural and urban Nigerians and that urbanization significantly increases the prevalence of MetS, which can be explained on the basis of higher prevalence of dyslipidemia, obesity, and hypertension in urban setting.

TL;DR: Physiologically individualized therapy based on renin/aldosterone phenotyping significantly improved blood pressure control in a sample of African patients with uncontrolled hypertension.

TL;DR: Frequency of occurrence of metabolic syndrome was similar using the NCEP ATP III and WHO definitions, however, the IDF definition resulted in a higher frequency because of the lower cut-off for waist circumference used for identification of visceral obesity.