ReviewGhana medical journal2016
Irrational use of antibiotics and the risk of diabetes in Ghana.
Review in Ghana medical journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Knowledge and practices regarding antibiotic use among small-scale poultry farmers in Enugu State, Nigeria.Heliyon · 2022Article
- Access, use and disposal of antimicrobials among humans and animals in Wakiso district, Uganda: a qualitative study.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2021Article
- Antibiotic prescription for febrile outpatients: a health facility-based secondary data analysis for the Greater Accra region of Ghana.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- Inappropriate usage of selected antimicrobials: Comparative residue proportions in rural and urban beef in Uganda.PloS one · 2019Article
- Pharmacotherapy of infertility in Ghana: retrospective study at the cape coast teaching hospital.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2019Article
- Antibiotic use during pregnancy: a retrospective study of prescription patterns and birth outcomes at an antenatal clinic in rural Ghana.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2017Article
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Abstract
unlabelledEpidemiological studies show clearly that Caesarean birth, perinatal or neonatal irrational antibiotic use is strongly associated with increased risk of obesity and diabetes in later life. Irrational use of antibiotics is a great global public health concern especially in developing economies like Ghana due to poor regulation on medicines. Unfortunately, this concern has been reduced to the fear of development of resistant organisms and the destruction of the world's limited range of antibiotics therapy at the expense of other insidious risks including the development of metabolic and atopic diseases. These risks however appear to have greater implications on public health systems of developing economies. Here, we review the ignored role of antibiotics in the global obesity pandemic and project the risk that it poses to the health system of a developing economy like Ghana.
fundingDepartment of Pharmacology, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah university of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
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