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3.2 %The hepatitis C prevalence in conflict zones in Nigeria was 3.2%.

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

Asymptomatic parasitaemia was common amongst urban school-children aged six to 12 years in southwestern Nigeria between January 1987 and October 1988, but at a lower frequency than in rural children.

Nigeriaasymptomatic malaria parasitaemiaobserved January 1987 to October 1988published 1990Annals of Tropical Medicine and ParasitologyOpenAlexdocument of 13 observations

8.5 %Malaria positivity rate by microscopy was 8.5% among children aged 2–6 months in Osun State.

Nigeriapaludismeobserved July 2023published 2025Malaria journalPubMeddocument of 15 observations

27.9 %27.9% (24/86) of confirmed mpox cases were coinfected with HIV.

Nigeriampox · VIH/sidaobserved 2017-2019published 2023BMJ global healthPubMeddocument of 11 observations

93.6 %Helminth was detected in 102 of 109 children (93.6%) before treatment with artesunate or amodiaquine.

Nigeriahelminthpublished 2008International Journal of Infectious DiseasesOpenAlexdocument of 6 observationsDOI 10.1016/j.ijid.2008.05.005

Hyperparasitaemia was associated with an increased risk of progression to cerebral malaria (P < 0.0001).

Nigeriahyperparasitaemia · paludismepublished 2011BMC Infectious DiseasesOpenAlexdocument of 7 observationsDOI 10.1186/1471-2334-11-268

68.1 %A reasonable proportion of the respondents, 68.1%, were willing to receive malaria vaccine.

Nigeriapaludismeobserved 2023published 2025African health sciencesPubMeddocument of 6 observations

37.2 %37.2% of respondents knew surgery as a risk factor for VTE.

NigeriaVTEobserved 2019 to 2020published 2021Journal of preventive medicine and hygienePubMeddocument of 12 observations

Thyroid disorders ranked highest among the paediatric endocrine disorders seen.

Nigeriapaediatric endocrine disorderspublished 2022Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEMPubMeddocument of 5 observations

36.3 %A mean proportion of 36.3% of eligible children aged 5 years and older in the control arm received a malaria rapid diagnostic test.

Nigeriapaludismepublished 2021The Lancet. Global healthPubMeddocument of 6 observations

13 %Thirteen percent of adult males in Nigeria are centrally obese.

Nigeriacentral obesitypublished 2022Public healthPubMeddocument of 7 observations

14 odds_ratioIn a single-arm trial, the odds of virologic suppression among youth with HIV in Nigeria was higher at 24 weeks (odds ratio = 14.00, P < 0.001) compared with baseline.

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

4.11 odds_ratioThere was a significant association between systolic hypertension and risk of developing pre-diabetes and diabetes (odds ratio 4.11).

Nigeriadiabète (non précisé) · pre-diabetes · systolic hypertensionobserved 2017published 2020West African journal of medicinePubMeddocument of 4 observations

82.8 %Among the 99 patients with NTM isolates, the predominant symptoms were cough (82.8%), weight loss (56.3%), fever (47.5%), and dyspnoea (28.3%).

Nigerianontuberculous mycobacteriapublished 2026BMC infectious diseasesPubMeddocument of 10 observations

56 %Two Pfmdr1 variants, N86 and Y184, were present at a prevalence of 56% and 13.25% of isolates respectively.

Nigeriapaludismeobserved August 2014published 2020BMC research notesPubMeddocument of 3 observations

73 %Seventy-three percent of the children were cured with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) for acute uncomplicated malaria in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Nigeriaacute uncomplicated malariapublished 2005Acta tropicaeurope_pmcdocument of 2 observations

77 %The percentage of people living with HIV/AIDS established in care receiving at least 3-month multi-month dispensing of antiretroviral treatment increased from 77% to 93% during February–September 2020.

NigeriaVIH/sidaobserved February–September 2020published 2021AIDS research and therapyPubMeddocument of 6 observations

34 yearsThe mean age of the drug-susceptible tuberculosis (DS-TB) group was 34 years.

Nigeriatuberculosepublished 2024Journal of global antimicrobial resistancePubMeddocument of 8 observations

33.3 %The prevalence of infectious conditions among stable COPD patients in a Nigerian hospital's chest clinic was 33.3%.

NigeriaCOPD · infectious conditionspublished 2025West African journal of medicinePubMeddocument of 20 observations

0.7 %Among children with postneonatal risk factors for cerebral palsy, HIV was present in 1 out of 221 (0.7%).

Nigeriacerebral palsy · VIH/sidapublished 2020Archives of disease in childhoodPubMeddocument of 27 observations

2.5 %Vulvar cancer accounted for 6 cases (2.5%) among 242 gynecological cancer cases at Federal University Teaching Hospital, Owerri, from January 2020 to November 2022.

Nigeriavulvar cancerobserved January 2020 to November 2022published 2023The Pan African medical journalPubMeddocument of 8 observations

100 %100% of the AIDS group had left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD).

NigeriaVIH/sidapublished 2022BMC pediatricsPubMeddocument of 6 observations

84.7 %The cure rate for pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine was 84.7% on day 14.

Nigeriapaludismeobserved day 14published 2004Clinical drug investigationeurope_pmcdocument of 13 observations

45 odds_ratioMpox cases had an odds ratio of 45 for HIV coinfection compared with an age-, gender-, and geography-matched control group from the general population.

Nigeriampox · VIH/sidaobserved 2017-2019published 2023BMJ global healthPubMeddocument of 11 observations

52.9 %52.9% of men with type 2 diabetes mellitus had low free testosterone (CFT).

Nigeriadiabète de type 2published 2021Journal of the National Medical AssociationPubMeddocument of 7 observations