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87.5 %Lesions occurred mostly on the exposed parts of the body in 87.5% of the 40 patients studied.

Nigeriavitiligopublished 2021West African journal of medicinePubMeddocument of 7 observations

13.6 %The prevalence of cholelithiasis in pediatric sickle cell disease in Lagos was 13.6%.

Nigeriacholelithiasis · drépanocytosepublished 2022Annals of African medicinePubMeddocument of 6 observations

45 patientsThere was prompt clinical response to both treatment regimens of artemether and artemether followed by mefloquine in 45 pregnant women with drug resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria during the second and third trimesters.

Nigeriadrug resistant Plasmodium falciparum malariapublished 1998Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology : the journal of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gyneurope_pmcdocument of 5 observations

8 %Anopheles funestus (s.s.) population was resistant to dieldrin with a mortality rate of 8%.

Nigeriapaludismepublished 2020Parasites & vectorsPubMeddocument of 8 observations

39 %Thirty-nine percent of adult Nigerians are centrally obese according to International Diabetes Federation criteria.

Nigeriacentral obesitypublished 2022Public healthPubMeddocument of 7 observations

55 %Fifty-five percent of the 100 children in the study had malaria parasitaemia.

Nigeriapaludismeobserved 2023published 2026BMC research notesPubMeddocument of 6 observations

7.3 %The hepatitis B prevalence in non-conflict zones in Nigeria was 7.3%.

Nigeriahépatite Bobserved 2018published 2021Annals of global healthPubMeddocument of 12 observations

2 childrenFirst degree auriculoventricular (AV) block occurred in 2 children at 8 h or 8 and 48 h after halofantrine treatment for acute symptomatic uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

Nigeriapaludismepublished 1998Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygieneeurope_pmcdocument of 7 observations

764.9 gDiabetic pregnant women had significantly higher histomorphological placental weight (764.9 ± 159.26 g) compared to non-diabetic pregnant women (570.0 ± 92.73 g).

Nigeriadiabète (non précisé)published 2026BMC pregnancy and childbirthPubMeddocument of 19 observations

40 gametocytes/microliterGametocyte counts in the patients after treatment ranged from 40 gametocytes/microliter of blood to 4923 gametocytes/microliter of blood.

Nigeriapaludismepublished 1997Experimental parasitologyeurope_pmcdocument of 6 observations

80 %In Nigeria, the incidence of breast cancer has increased by over 80% in the last four decades.

Nigeriacancer du seinobserved last four decadespublished 2022The Pan African medical journalPubMeddocument of 9 observations

2.2 %The prevalence of HIV/TB coinfection was higher among patients above 45 years of age (2.2%).

NigeriaHIV/TB coinfectionpublished 2020Journal of immunoassay & immunochemistryPubMeddocument of 19 observations

29 %At day 0, MPXV detection was less frequent from blood (13 [29%] of 45) than from skin, anus, or throat.

Nigeriampoxobserved day 0HAL · Unilimdocument of 102 observations

53 %About half (53%) of the women were tested for HIV during antenatal care.

NigeriaVIH/sidaobserved 2013published 2020Journal of biosocial sciencePubMeddocument of 4 observations

35 %Thirty-five percent of youth with HIV in Nigeria were virologically suppressed at baseline in a single-arm trial.

NigeriaVIH/sidapublished 2021Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)PubMeddocument of 12 observations

0.1 %Among children aged 0–14 years in Nigeria, 0.1% (39 out of 31,549) were double positive for antibodies to both TmpA and rp17 in a 2018 nationally representative HIV survey.

Nigeriayawsobserved 2018published 2023The American journal of tropical medicine and hygienePubMeddocument of 4 observations

96.88 %The ensemble machine learning model achieved a ROC-AUC of 96.88% in detecting Lassa fever and distinguishing it from malaria.

Nigeriafièvre de Lassa · paludismepublished 2026Computational biology and chemistryPubMeddocument of 8 observations

0.53 odds_ratioIn Nigeria, SMC administration was associated with an odds ratio of 0.53 for malaria infection measured by microscopy, after controlling for seasonal factors, age, sex, net use and other variables.

Nigeriapaludismepublished 2022BMJ global healthPubMeddocument of 8 observations

Black women of African ancestry experience higher mortality rates from breast cancer than White women of European ancestry.

Nigeriacancer du seinpublished 2020Whole-genome analysis of Nigerian patients with breast cancer reveals ethnic-driven somatieurope_pmcdocument of 2 observationsDOI 10.1101/2020.10.28.359240

6,737 participantsA total of 6,737 study participants had their weights available at both visits.

NigeriaVIH/sidapublished 2025Frontiers in public healthPubMeddocument of 7 observations

65 %Traditional diagnostic methods typically achieve 60–70% accuracy in differentiating Lassa fever from malaria in resource-limited settings.

Nigeriafièvre de Lassa · paludismepublished 2026Computational biology and chemistryPubMeddocument of 8 observations

2,300,000 peopleGlobally, approximately 2.3 million people living with HIV are co-infected with hepatitis C virus.

Nigeriahépatite C · VIH/sidapublished 2024Journal of infection in developing countriesPubMeddocument of 5 observations

5.5 %The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus was 5.5% among 254 pregnant women attending antenatal care in two tertiary teaching hospitals in Enugu, Nigeria.

Nigeriadiabète gestationnelpublished 2025Nigerian journal of clinical practicePubMeddocument of 4 observations

1.9 %Among children aged 0–14 years in Nigeria, 1.9% (610 out of 31,549) had anti-TmpA antibodies in a 2018 nationally representative HIV survey.

Nigeriayawsobserved 2018published 2023The American journal of tropical medicine and hygienePubMeddocument of 4 observations

0.49 z_scoreAt the end of the trial, the mean change in body mass index z score was 0.49.

Nigeriadrépanocytosepublished 2023Blood advancesPubMeddocument of 6 observations