Okechukwu S. Ogah

Research interests

Publications

• Rivaroxaban in Rheumatic Heart Disease–Associated Atrial Fibrillation

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa2209051

• Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in Nigeria in 1995 and 2020: A systematic analysis of current evidence

  Journal of Clinical Hypertension · 2021 · 10.1111/jch.14220

• Stroke in Africa: profile, progress, prospects and priorities

  Nature Reviews Neurology · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-021-00542-4

• Comparison of Dual Therapies for Lowering Blood Pressure in Black Africans

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2019 · 10.1056/nejmoa1901113

• Dominant modifiable risk factors for stroke in Ghana and Nigeria (SIREN): a case-control study

  The Lancet Global Health · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(18)30002-0

• Practice patterns and outcomes after stroke across countries at different economic levels (INTERSTROKE): an international observational study

  The Lancet · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(18)30802-x

• Clinical Outcomes in 3343 Children and Adults With Rheumatic Heart Disease From 14 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

  Circulation · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.116.024769

• Global and regional effects of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with acute stroke in 32 countries (INTERSTROKE): a case-control study

  The Lancet · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(16)30506-2

• Prednisolone and Mycobacterium indicus pranii in Tuberculous Pericarditis

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2014 · 10.1056/nejmoa1407380

• Characteristics, complications, and gaps in evidence-based interventions in rheumatic heart disease: the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry (the REMEDY study)

  European Heart Journal · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehu449

• Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa

  Science · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1251546

• Readmission and death after an acute heart failure event: predictors and outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa: results from the THESUS-HF registry

  European Heart Journal · 2013 · 10.1093/eurheartj/eht393

• Recent advances in hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa

  Heart · 2013 · 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-303227

• Prevalence of overweight and obesity in adult Nigerians – a systematic review

  Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity · 2013 · 10.2147/dmso.s38626

• Blood pressure, prevalence of hypertension and hypertension related complications in Nigerian Africans: A review

  World Journal of Cardiology · 2012 · 10.4330/wjc.v4.i12.327

• The Causes, Treatment, and Outcome of Acute Heart Failure in 1006 Africans From 9 Countries

  Archives of Internal Medicine · 2012 · 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3310

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