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Okechukwu Ekuma
Researcher at University of Manitoba
Publications - 45
Citations - 885
Okechukwu Ekuma is an academic researcher from University of Manitoba. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 38 publications receiving 713 citations.
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Alcohol Volume, Drinking Pattern, and Cardiovascular Disease Morbidity and Mortality: Is There a U-shaped Function?
Robert P. Murray,John E. Connett,Suzanne L. Tyas,Ruth Bond,Okechukwu Ekuma,Candice K. Silversides,Gordon E. Barnes +6 more
TL;DR: The harmful effects of binge drinking on cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality can be disaggregated from the protective effects of usual drinking at various levels of consumption.
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Health-care use before a first demyelinating event suggestive of a multiple sclerosis prodrome: a matched cohort study
José M.A. Wijnands,Elaine Kingwell,Feng Zhu,Yinshan Zhao,Tanja Högg,Karen Stadnyk,Okechukwu Ekuma,Xinya Lu,Charity Evans,John D. Fisk,Ruth Ann Marrie,Helen Tremlett +11 more
TL;DR: More frequent use of health care in patients with multiple sclerosis than in controls in the 5 years before a first demyelinating event, according to health administrative data, suggests the existence of a measurable multiple sclerosis prodrome.
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Transient tachypnea of the newborn may be an early clinical manifestation of wheezing symptoms.
TL;DR: Maternal asthma, birth weight > or = 4500 g, male sex, and urban location were risk factors for development of TTN and TTN is associated with development of wheezing syndromes in childhood.
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Five years before multiple sclerosis onset: Phenotyping the prodrome.
José M.A. Wijnands,Feng Zhu,Elaine Kingwell,Yinshan Zhao,Okechukwu Ekuma,Xinya Lu,Charity Evans,John D. Fisk,Ruth Ann Marrie,Helen Tremlett +9 more
TL;DR: P phenotyping the prodrome 5 years before clinical recognition of MS is feasible, and cases had more psychiatrist and urologist encounters and higher proportions of musculoskeletal, genito-urinary or hormonal-related prescriptions.
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Prevalence of mental illness and its impact on the use of home care and nursing homes: a population-based study of older adults in Manitoba.
Patricia J. Martens,Randall Fransoo,Elaine Burland,Charles Burchill,Heather J. Prior,Okechukwu Ekuma +5 more
TL;DR: The prevalence of mental illness in older adults and its effect on home care and personal care home (PCH) use increased with the population's age, and individuals with dementia used home care at 3 times the rate of those having no mental illness diagnosis.