Experts have enjoined Nigerian government and citizens to be conscious of cardiovascular conditions that are silent killers. These conditions they said have high public health significance.
They made this known at the sixth annual Cardiovascular Summit held in Lagos and organized by Pfizer Nigeria, Ghana and East Africa Region (NEAR).
Professor Sam Dagogo-Jack, renowned endocrinologist at the University of Tennessee Health
Centre, Memphis, USA said the nation needs to take its fight against cardiovascular disorders serious.
“We must increasingly adopt scientific methods,
which is a separation from the metaphorical approach. When we are talking about
a silent killer that needs to be detected before it can actually be
treated, a killer that is right at the centre whether or not we
believe in the orientation, let us go into the aspect of scientific
explanations,” Dagogo-Jack said.
In his remark, Professor Oladapo Akinkugbe, Chairman of the Pfizer Cardiovascular Scientific Advisory Board said very few Nigerians who suffer from hypertension are aware of the medical condition.
“Of those that are aware, less than
a third is on treatment, and of those on treatment, less than a third is being
adequately monitored. So we can see that just a small fraction of patients are
adequately catered for. We can say the same for diabetes and cardiac
events.
“We need to take preventive measures.
The average man on the street should know about the risk factors for these
disorders. One of the things we could do is sensitize government to look set
targets and tie then to the Vision 202020. By then, we would expect to have
reduced cardio vascular disorders by a certain percentage. That is an achievable
goal, even if we achieve only half, at least it is measurable,” he said.
Professor Sam Dagogo-Jack
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