University of Health and Allied Sciences
61 publications · 886 citations · ORCID 0000-0002-7899-3036
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David Adedia is a biostatistician and public health researcher whose work focuses on epidemiological modeling, non-communicable diseases, and maternal and child health in Ghana. Adedia employs advanced statistical techniques to analyze disease burdens, risk factors, and health service delivery, contributing to both methodological literature and applied clinical studies. The research spans a wide array of health issues, including hypertension, malaria, sickle cell disease, and digital addiction, with a strong emphasis on data-driven decision-making in resource-limited settings.
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Why this gap exists: While the retrieved literature confirms the projected increase in child wasting and maternal undernutrition due to COVID-19 disruptions [0] and explores general concepts of food system resilience [2] and social protection [3], no study directly quantifies how specific policy frameworks moderate these projected outcomes, leaving the core interaction unresolved.
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Why this gap exists: While the retrieved literature consistently establishes that maternal gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) increases the long-term risk of cardiometabolic diseases in offspring [1][2][3], it focuses primarily on pathogenesis and risk association rather than defining specific, evidence-based long-term treatment strategies for the children to mitigate these risks.
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Why this gap exists: While recent reviews [8] confirm GDM alters maternal gut microbiota and neonatal health, and older studies [0] note dysbiosis across maternal sites, the retrieved evidence lacks direct, longitudinal studies correlating specific gestational maternal microbiota profiles with the *long-term* metabolic health of offspring, leaving the core question unresolved.
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Why this gap exists: While a 2023 network meta-analysis [6] synthesizes general efficacy and adherence data for LTBI regimens, the retrieved evidence lacks direct comparative studies specifically focused on high-burden, low-resource settings, leaving the specific constraints of these environments unresolved.
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Why this gap exists: While Abstract [7] compares diagnostic criteria and Abstract [4] compares 75g and 100g OGTTs, the retrieved evidence lacks direct, comparative studies on the cost-effectiveness and relative efficacy of the one-step versus two-step *approaches* in preventing adverse outcomes, leaving the specific question unresolved.
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Why this gap exists: While abstracts [6] and [8] compare digital and in-person delivery during the pandemic, they are set in high-income contexts (Spain, unspecified high-income), and abstract [7] focuses on LMICs but lacks a comparative digital vs. in-person design, leaving the specific question of comparative efficacy in LMICs unresolved.
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The Lancet Oncology · 2026 · 20 citations
The Lancet Neurology · 2026 · 2 citations
The predictors of treatment adherence among hypertensive patients with cost-free access
Scientific Reports · 2026
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2026
The Lancet · 2025 · 443 citations
The Lancet · 2025 · 109 citations
The Lancet · 2025 · 102 citations
The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2025 · 26 citations
SAGE Open Nursing · 2025 · 3 citations
Scientific African · 2025 · corresponding author · 2 citations
Journal of Parasitology Research · 2025 · 1 citations
PLoS ONE · 2025 · corresponding author · 1 citations
medRxiv · 2025 · 1 citations
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025 · 1 citations
International Journal of Pediatrics · 2025 · 1 citations
Knowledge and practice discrepancies in the nursing process: insights from developing countries
Journal of Global Health Science · 2025 · 1 citations
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing · 2025 · corresponding author
Inflammatory signatures during the steady state of sickle cell disease in African children
Research Square · 2025
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders · 2025
Vaccine X · 2024 · 8 citations
Psychoactive substance use and associated factors among students in a Ghanaian Tertiary Institution
Scientific African · 2024 · corresponding author · 7 citations
Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis · 2024 · 6 citations
Parasite Epidemiology and Control · 2024 · 5 citations
Knowledge generation towards evidence-based practice and nursing competency
PLoS ONE · 2024 · corresponding author · 5 citations
Host-parasite interaction in severe and uncomplicated malaria infection in ghanaian children
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases · 2024 · 1 citations
Discover Public Health · 2024 · 1 citations
COVID-19 and malaria co-morbidity in the Hohoe Municipality: a retrospective study
Journal of Global Health Science · 2024
Scientific African · 2023 · 3 citations
PLOS Global Public Health · 2023 · corresponding author · 2 citations
Journal of Global Health Science · 2023 · 2 citations
Research Square · 2023
Scientific Reports · 2023
PLOS Global Public Health · 2022 · 24 citations
Journal of Infection and Public Health · 2022 · 11 citations
Haematological Indices and Antioxidant Enzyme Activity in Ghanaian Stroke Patients
BioMed Research International · 2022 · 5 citations
International Journal of Hypertension · 2022 · 5 citations
Journal of Public Health and Development · 2022 · 1 citations
Rationale and design for the Shea lubricant, 2% Lidocaine gel non-inferiority trial
Research Square · 2022 · 1 citations
Statistical Analysis of Misfiling Causes in Higher Education: A Test Construction
Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies · 2022
Research Square · 2022
BioMed Research International · 2021 · 12 citations
Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research · 2021 · 4 citations
Research Square · 2021 · 2 citations
African Journal of Food Agriculture Nutrition and Development · 2021 · 1 citations
Comparative assessment of anthropometric and bioimpedence methods for determining adiposity
Heliyon · 2020 · 10 citations
Journal of Probability and Statistics · 2020 · corresponding author · 7 citations
Assessment of Hypertension-Induced Deaths in Ghana: A Nation-Wide Study from 2012 to 2016
Journal of Data Analysis and Information Processing · 2020 · 4 citations
Sensitivity Analysis of the Quadratic Discriminant Function for Predicting Pregnancy Outcomes
Journal of Scientific Research and Reports · 2020
Comparative assessment of methods for determining adiposity and a model for obesity index
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2019 · 1 citations
Open Journal of Applied Sciences · 2018 · 10 citations
CIN Computers Informatics Nursing · 2018 · 5 citations
Advances in Reproductive Sciences · 2018 · 3 citations
Earth Perspectives · 2017 · 29 citations
Figshare · 2017
Figshare · 2017
Leverage effects on Robust Regression Estimators
Journals & Books Hosting (International Knowledge Sharing Platform) · 2016 · 1 citations
Leverages, Outliers and the Performance of Robust Regression Estimators
British Journal of Mathematics & Computer Science · 2016 · 1 citations
On Some Compartmental Models for Ebola Disease
Journals & Books Hosting (International Knowledge Sharing Platform) · 2016
An SITR Analysis of Treatment Model of Hepatitis B Epidemic
Journals & Books Hosting (International Knowledge Sharing Platform) · 2015 · 3 citations
British Journal of Mathematics & Computer Science · 2015 · 1 citations