{"id":4605,"date":"2023-07-23T13:36:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T13:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=4605"},"modified":"2023-07-28T13:50:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T13:50:24","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2017-28-2-65-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2017-28-2-65-74\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2017) 28 (2) 65-74"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Assessment of risk factors for hypertension and diabetes in penultimate and final year pharmacy students in a <\/b>University in South-Western Nigeria.<\/b><\/p>


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Akinniyi A. Aje , Boluwatife B. Adigun and Love T. Okedele<\/p>


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Corresponding author: Akinniyi A. Aje<\/p>

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Background: It is vital to carry out risk factor assessment for diabetes and hypertension among undergraduate\u00a0students, as they may be unaware of some risk factors that may predispose them to becoming diabetic and\/or\u00a0<\/span>hypertensive.<\/span><\/p>

Objectives:<\/b> To carry out assessment of risk factors for hypertension and diabetes in penultimate and final year\u00a0students of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan.<\/span><\/p>

Methods:<\/b> A cross-sectional study was conducted among 124 penultimate and final year students of the Faculty\u00a0of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan. A pretested questionnaire was used to garner information on risk factors\u00a0<\/span>predisposing to hypertension and diabetes. Anthropometric measurements and objective readings were taken.\u00a0<\/span>Data was analyzed for descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS version 23.<\/span><\/p>

Results:<\/b> Response rate was 84.7 % (105\/124). There were 68 (64.8 %) female participants. The prevalence of\u00a0hypertension was 7.6% and 43 (41.0%) were pre-hypertensive. None of the study population had diabetes,\u00a0<\/span>however, 4 (3.8%) were pre-diabetic. The waist circumference risk classification of participants shows 95\u00a0<\/span>(90.5%), 6 (5.7%), 3 (2.9%) and 1 (1.0%) participants had least, increased, high and very high risk of developing\u00a0<\/span>hypertension respectively. Ten (9.5 %) participants were overweight, 2 (1.9 %) were obese and 5 (4.8 %) had\u00a0<\/span>abnormal waist-hip ratio.<\/span><\/p>

Conclusion:<\/b> The study revealed that risk factors for hypertension and diabetes exist among the undergraduate\u00a0students studied and points to a need for targeted public health campaigns among students.<\/span><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> Risk factor assessment, Pharmacy students, Diabetes and hypertension.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Assessment of risk factors for hypertension and diabetes in penultimate and final year pharmacy students in a University in South-Western Nigeria. Akinniyi A. Aje , Boluwatife B. Adigun and Love T. Okedele 1 Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacy Administration, Faculty of Pharmacy,University of Ibadan. Corresponding author: Akinniyi A. Aje Email: aje123@gmail.com Phone number: +2348035684484 ABSTRACT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4611,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}