Department of Internal Medicine: Recent submissions
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Prevention of cardiovascular disease among people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
(Progress in cardiovascular diseases, 2020)As longevity has increased for people living with HIV (PLWH) in the United States and Europe, there has been a concomitant increase in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and morbidity in this ... -
Incidence and predictors of 6 months mortality after an acute heart failure event in rural Uganda: The Mbarara Heart Failure Registry (MAHFER)
(International journal of cardiology, 2018-03-29)Objective: We sought to estimate the incidence and predictors of all-cause mortality 6 months after heart failure hospitalization in Uganda. Methods: Mbarara Heart Failure Registry is a cohort of patients hospitalized ... -
Development of Intensive Care in Low-Resource Regions
(Current Anesthesiology Reports, 2019-01)Purpose of review. Since their introduction almost a century ago, intensive care units have become an essential part of the health care system. Although the majority are found in the high-income countries, access to intensive ... -
Prevalence of lower extremity Peripheral artery disease among adult diabetes patients in Southwestern Uganda
(BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2014)Background: Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a major complication of atherosclerosis. PAD can be diagnosed with low-cost diagnostic techniques and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. While the major ... -
Validity and Reliability of a Self-Reported Measure of Antihypertensive Medication Adherence in Uganda
(PLoS ONE, 2016-07-01)Background: The Morisky Medication Adherence scale (MMAS-8) is a widely used self-reported measure of adherence to antihypertensive medications that has not been validated in hypertensive patients in sub-Saharan ... -
GPS-measured distance to clinic, but not self-reported transportation factors, are associated with missed HIV clinic visits in rural Uganda
(AIDS, 2013)Objective—Studies of the association between transportation barriers and HIV-related health outcomes have shown both positive and negative effects, possibly because a reliable, validated measure of transportation barriers ... -
Frequency of Vital Signs Monitoring and its Association with Mortality among Adults with Severe Sepsis Admitted to a General Medical Ward in Uganda
(PLoS One, 2014)Introduction: Optimal vital signs monitoring of patients with severe sepsis in resource-limited settings may improve outcomes. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of vital signs monitoring of patients ... -
Validation of heart failure quality of life tool and usage to predict all-cause mortality in acute heart failure in Uganda: the Mbarara heart failure registry (MAHFER)
(BMC cardiovascular disorders, 2018-12-12)Background: The health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important treatment goal that could serve as low-cost prognostication tool in resource poor settings. We sought to validate the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy ... -
Optimisation of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative to address African health-care challenges
(Lancet Glob Health, 2015)The Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) is an innovative and potentially transformative 5-year programme, established by the US Government in 2010, to increase the number of doctors to meet crucial human resource ... -
Opportunities to harness technology to deliver HIV Prevention / healthy sexuality programming to sexual and gender minority adults living in East Africa
(Springer Nature, 2020-10-29)Debido a la estigmatización y discriminación contra lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transgénero y otras personas de minorías sexuales y de género en África Oriental, hay limitadas investigaciones sobre salud sexual centradas ... -
One-year incidence and standardized mortality rates for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in Uganda
(2021)Background: Little is known about the survival of patients with esophageal squamous cell cancer in resource limited settings. Objectives: We sought to determine the incidence of one-year all-cause mortality and ... -
Hypoglycemia at admission is associated with inhospital mortality in Ugandan patients with severe sepsis
(Critical care medicine, 2011)Objective—Dysglycemia during sepsis is associated with poor outcomes in resource-rich settings. In resource-limited settings, hypoglycemia is often diagnosed clinically without the benefit of laboratory support. We studied ... -
The Effect of Therapeutic Lumbar Punctures on Acute Mortality From Cryptococcal Meningitis
(Clinical infectious diseases, 2014-07-23)Introduction. Cryptococcal meningitis is the most common cause of adult meningitis in sub-Saharan Africa. Raised intracranial pressure (ICP) is common in cryptococcosis. Prior studies suggest elevated ICP is associated ... -
Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Carotid Atherosclerosis in a Mixed Cohort of HIV-Infected and Uninfected Ugandans
(2017)Preventable cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors are responsible for the majority of CVD-related deaths, and are increasingly recognized as a cause of morbidity and mortality for HIV-infected persons taking antiretroviral ... -
Aggregate Evaluable Organ Dysfunction Predicts In-Hospital Mortality from Sepsis in Uganda
(The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2011)We evaluated the association between severity of sepsis and in-hospital mortality in 150 patients with nonsurgical sepsis at a regional referral hospital in Uganda. In-hospital mortality occurred in 5 of 52 (9.6%) patients ... -
Facility-Level Factors Influencing Retention of Patients in HIV Care in East Africa
(PLOS ONE, 2016-08-10)Losses to follow-up (LTFU) remain an important programmatic challenge. While numerous patient-level factors have been associated with LTFU, less is known about facility-level factors. Data from the East African International ... -
Lowenstein-Jensen Selective Medium for Reducing Contamination in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Culture
(2014-04-03)We compared Mycobacterium tuberculosis sputum culture recovery and contamination rates between Lowenstein-Jensen medium (LJ) containing the following decontaminants and LJ alone: (i) PANTA (n = 299), (ii) Selectatab-MB (n ... -
Caregiving burden and mental health problems among family caregivers of people with dementia in rural Uganda
(2020-04-26)Background. Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are associated with increasing health burden in low- and middle-income countries. Less well-recognized is the potential health burden experienced by other affected ... -
Money was the problem”: Caregivers’ self-reported reasons for abandoning their children’s cancer treatment in southwest Uganda
(WILEY, 2021-08-02)Introduction: Treatment abandonment contributes significantly to poor survival of children with cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). In order to inform an approach to this problem, we investigated why ... -
Psychiatric morbidity among physically ill patients in a Ugandan Regional Referral Hospital
(2013-04-12)Background: Mental illness is a global health burden that remains poorly understood even by health care providers. It is important to get insight of the prevalence, clinical features and management of psychiatric morbidity ...
