The true conjugate was determined intraoperatively with a caliper in 114 Ghanaian women and was correlated with their height, obstetric performance and fetal dimensions. Those patients undergoing cesarean section for cephalopelvic disproportion (Group Ia) were found to have a significantly shorter mean true conjugate (9.54 cm +/- 0.63 S.D.) and mean body height (152.68 cm +/- 5.46 S.D.) and a s...

Salt consumption is high in Africa and the continent also shares the greatest burden of hypertension. This study examines salt-related knowledge, attitude and self-reported behaviours (KAB) amongst adults from two African countries-Ghana and South Africa-which have distributed different public health messages related to salt. KAB was assessed in the multinational longitudinal World Health Organ...

Background: In recent times, the novel coronavirus disease is one of most challenging public health burdens. Low-and-middle-income countries including Ghana have not been spared by infection. Several measures are being undertaken to control and prevent future waves disease. Previous studies established importance knowledge, attitude practices towards an infection as a remedy for controlling spr...

Based on data analysis, this study measured the level of perception Ghanaians and Chinese cultural symbols. The objective was to investigate possible differences misconception in visual comprehension between Chinese. One hundred symbols, fifty from Ghana China used administer questions a survey total Ghanaian subjects. By employing digital technology such as collection analysis most typical lea...

This paper investigates the socio-cultural challenges of small-scale batik and tie-dye production retailing industry in Ghana. The research is based on a qualitative approach that employs interviews observation for data collection. In all, sixteen (16) participants were sampled through purposive techniques. Data collected transcribed, classified analysed thematic descriptive analysis. study fou...

Adequate dietary intake of potassium (K) helps fight noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), mainly hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. This paper (i) estimated the K intake of Ghanaian population using food supply and food composition data and (ii) compared this estimate with the WHO recommended requirement for K in order to assess if there is a risk of inadequate K intake. Food supply data (19...

SUMMARY BACKGROUND Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) usually affects patients who are over 40 years old, obese, bed ridden or have had major operations or have hypercoagulable states. Healthy and ambulant young people are usually not affected. OBJECTIVES To report the observation of DVT in young patients below the age of 40 years METHODS A study of all healthy and ambulatory patients below the a...

Although aflatoxins (AFs) have been shown to be immune-suppressive agents in animals, the potential role of AFs in modifying the distribution and function of leukocyte subsets in humans has never been assessed. We examined the cellular immune status of 64 Ghanaians in relation to levels of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1)-albumin adducts in plasma. The percentages of leukocyte immunophenotypes in peripheral...