List of works - Fred Stephen Sarfo

Administration of a pictorial questionnaire to screen for stroke among patients with hypertension or diabetes in rural Ghana

scientific article published on 7 January 2017

Assessing Mobile Health Capacity and Task Shifting Strategies to Improve Hypertension Among Ghanaian Stroke Survivors

scientific article published on 12 August 2017

Associations between hypertension knowledge, awareness, and treatment and stroke occurrence across the globe: <i>time to act on what we know</i>

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Baseline Prescription and One-Year Persistence of Secondary Prevention Drugs after an index Stroke in Central Ghana

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

Behavioural and Cognitive Effects of Cerebrovascular Diseases.

scientific article

Biobanking in a Challenging African Environment: Unique Experience from the SIREN Project

scientific article

Burden and Predictors of Poststroke Cognitive Impairment in a Sample of Ghanaian Stroke Survivors

scientific article

Buruli ulcer control in a highly endemic district in Ghana: role of community-based surveillance volunteers

scientific article

Buruli ulcer in Liberia, 2012

scientific article published on March 2014

CD25+ FoxP3+ Memory CD4 T Cells Are Frequent Targets of HIV Infection In Vivo

scientific article published on 06 July 2016

Characteristics of hypertension among people living with HIV in Ghana: Impact of new hypertension guideline

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Clearance of viable Mycobacterium ulcerans from Buruli ulcer lesions during antibiotic treatment as determined by combined 16S rRNA reverse transcriptase /IS 2404 qPCR assay.

scientific article

Clinical efficacy of combination of rifampin and streptomycin for treatment of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease.

scientific article

Comparison of two assays for molecular determination of rifampin resistance in clinical samples from patients with Buruli ulcer disease

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Conceptual framework for establishing the African Stroke Organization

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Detection of Mycolactone A/B in Mycobacterium ulcerans-Infected Human Tissue

scientific article

Detection of highly prevalent hepatitis B virus coinfection among HIV-seropositive persons in Ghana

scientific article

Detection of viable Mycobacterium ulcerans in clinical samples by a novel combined 16S rRNA reverse transcriptase/IS2404 real-time qPCR assay

scientific article

Development and Reliability of a User-Friendly Multicenter Phenotyping Application for Hemorrhagic and Ischemic Stroke

scientific article

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

scientific article

Duration of antiretroviral therapy among people living with HIV and incidence of hypertension in Ghana

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Echocardiographic Abnormalities and Determinants of 1-Month Outcome of Stroke Among West Africans in the SIREN Study

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Effectiveness of routine BCG vaccination on buruli ulcer disease: a case-control study in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana and Togo

scientific article

Estimated glomerular filtration rate predicts incident stroke among Ghanaians with diabetes and hypertension

research work

Evaluation of Vascular Event Risk while on Long-term Anti-retroviral Suppressive Therapy [EVERLAST]: Protocol for a prospective observational study

Exploring Overlaps Between the Genomic and Environmental Determinants of LVH and Stroke :A Multicenter Study in West Africa

scientific article published on 13 March 2017

Factors associated with performing tuberculosis screening of HIV-positive patients in Ghana: LASSO-based predictor selection in a large public health data set.

scientific article

Factors associated with uncontrolled blood pressure among Ghanaians: Evidence from a multicenter hospital-based study

scientific article

Frequency & factors associated with apparent resistant hypertension among Ghanaians in a multicenter study

scientific article published on 20 August 2020

Frequency and determinants of thyroid autoimmunity in Ghanaian type 2 diabetes patients: a case-control study

scientific article

Graves Disease in Central Ghana: Clinical Characteristics and Associated Factors

scientific article published on 21 March 2018

Helicobacter pylori Coinfection Is Associated With Decreased Markers of Immune Activation in ART-Naive HIV-Positive and in HIV-Negative Individuals in Ghana

scientific article

Helicobacter pylori Infection Is Associated with Higher CD4 T Cell Counts and Lower HIV-1 Viral Loads in ART-Naïve HIV-Positive Patients in Ghana

scientific article published on 24 November 2015

Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA screening and sequencing using dry plasma spots

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Hepatitis E virus infections in HIV-infected patients in Ghana and Cameroon

scientific article published on 4 June 2013

High frequency of active HCV infection among seropositive cases in west Africa and evidence for multiple transmission pathways

scientific article published on 4 December 2014

High prevalence of renal dysfunction and association with risk of death amongst HIV-infected Ghanaians

scientific article

Immunosuppressive signature of cutaneous Mycobacterium ulcerans infection in the peripheral blood of patients with buruli ulcer disease

scientific article published in December 2009

Inadvertent non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-based antiretroviral therapy in dual HIV-1/2 and HIV-2 seropositive West Africans: a retrospective study

scientific article

Incidence and determinants of diabetes-related lower limb amputations in Ghana, 2010-2015- a retrospective cohort study

Incidence and determinants of nevirapine and efavirenz-related skin rashes in West Africans: nevirapine's epitaph?

scientific article

Incidence and risk factors for neuropsychiatric events among Ghanaian HIV patients on long-term non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-based therapy

scientific article published on 7 January 2016

Incident stroke among Ghanaians with hypertension and diabetes: A multicenter, prospective cohort study

research work

Infection with Mansonella perstans Nematodes in Buruli Ulcer Patients, Ghana

scientific article

Interleukin–6 (IL-6) Rs1800796 and Cyclin Dependent Kinase Inhibitor (CDKN2A/CDKN2B) Rs2383207 are Associated with Ischemic Stroke in Indigenous West African Men

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of West Africans on genetic studies of stroke: Evidence from the SIREN Study

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Liver Fibrosis by Transient Elastography and Virologic Outcomes After Introduction of Tenofovir in Lamivudine-Experienced Adults With HIV and Hepatitis B Virus Coinfection in Ghana

scientific article

Long-Term Outcomes of Stroke in a Ghanaian Outpatient Clinic

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

Long-term effectiveness of first-line non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-based antiretroviral therapy in Ghana

scientific article published on 3 September 2013

Long-term responses to first-line antiretroviral therapy in HIV and hepatitis B co-infection in Ghana

scientific article published on 27 June 2014

Longitudinal control of blood pressure among a cohort of Ghanaians with hypertension: A multicenter, hospital-based study

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification for Laboratory Confirmation of Buruli Ulcer Disease-Towards a Point-of-Care Test

scientific article published on 13 November 2015

Microbiological, histological, immunological, and toxin response to antibiotic treatment in the mouse model of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease

scientific article

Mobile health for stroke: a promising concept for research and practice

scientific article published on 15 February 2017

Multilingual Validation of the Questionnaire for Verifying Stroke-Free Status in West Africa

scientific article

Mycobacterium ulcerans DNA not detected in faecal samples from Buruli ulcer patients: results of a pilot study

scientific article

Mycolactone diffuses into the peripheral blood of Buruli ulcer patients--implications for diagnosis and disease monitoring

scientific article

Next-Generation Sequencing Reveals Frequent Opportunities for Exposure to Hepatitis C Virus in Ghana

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

One-Year Rates and Determinants of Poststroke Systolic Blood Pressure Control among Ghanaians.

scientific article

Oral treatment for patients with Buruli ulcer co-infected with HIV: think twice.

scientific article

PINGS (Phone-Based Intervention Under Nurse Guidance After Stroke): Interim Results of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 8 December 2017

Pharmacogenetic associations with plasma efavirenz concentrations and clinical correlates in a retrospective cohort of Ghanaian HIV-infected patients

scientific article published on 29 September 2013

Phenotyping Stroke in Sub-Saharan Africa: Stroke Investigative Research and Education Network (SIREN) Phenomics Protocol

scientific article

Phone-based Intervention under Nurse Guidance after Stroke (PINGS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

scientific article

Phone-based intervention for blood pressure control among Ghanaian stroke survivors: A pilot randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Plasma Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein, Copeptin, and Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Concentrations among West African Stroke Subjects Compared with Stroke-Free Controls

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Post-stroke depression in Ghana: Characteristics and correlates

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Potential role of tele-rehabilitation to address barriers to implementation of physical therapy among West African stroke survivors: A cross-sectional survey

scientific article published in September 2017

Prevalence and Predictors of Sleep Apnea Risk among Ghanaian Stroke Survivors

scientific article published on 7 March 2017

Prevalence and Prognostic Features of ECG Abnormalities in Acute Stroke: Findings From the SIREN Study Among Africans ⬇️

scholarly article

Prevalence and incidence of pre-diabetes and diabetes mellitus among people living with HIV in Ghana: Evidence from the EVERLAST Study

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Prevalence and predictors of chronic kidney disease among Ghanaian patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus: A multicenter cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Profile of neurological disorders in an adult neurology clinic in Kumasi, Ghana.

scientific article

Quality of life among patients with moderate to advanced chronic kidney disease in Ghana - a single centre study

Recent advances: role of mycolactone in the pathogenesis and monitoring of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection/Buruli ulcer disease.

scientific article

Recent patterns and predictors of neurological mortality among hospitalized patients in Central Ghana

scientific article

Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa

scientific article published in June 2014

Response by Sarfo and Ovbiagele to letter regarding "Post-stroke depression: Risk assessment".

scientific article published on 30 January 2018

Response by Sarfo and Ovbiagele to letter regarding "potential role of tele-rehabilitation to address barriers to implementation of physical therapy among West African stroke survivors: A cross-sectional survey".

scientific article published on 28 September 2017

Risk of deaths, AIDS-defining and non-AIDS defining events among Ghanaians on long-term combination antiretroviral therapy

scientific article

Secular Trends in Admissions and Mortality Rates from Diabetes Mellitus in the Central Belt of Ghana: A 31-Year Review

scientific article

Spectrum of Endocrine Disorders in Central Ghana

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Stroke Among Young West Africans: Evidence From the SIREN (Stroke Investigative Research and Educational Network) Large Multisite Case-Control Study.

scientific article

Stroke Investigative Research and Education Network: Community Engagement and Outreach Within Phenomics Core

scientific article published on April 2016

Stroke Minimization through Additive Anti-atherosclerotic Agents in Routine Treatment (SMAART): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Stroke in Indigenous Africans, African Americans, and European Americans: Interplay of Racial and Geographic Factors

scientific article published on 7 April 2017

Stroke minimization through additive anti-atherosclerotic agents in routine treatment (SMAART): A pilot trial concept for improving stroke outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Stroke-related stigma among West Africans: Patterns and predictors

scientific article

Tele-neurology in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review of the literature

scientific article published on 26 July 2017

Tenofovir is associated with increased tubular proteinuria and asymptomatic renal tubular dysfunction in Ghana

scientific article published in December 2015

The burden of stroke in Africa: A glance at the present and a glimpse into the future

scientific article

The modern pre-levodopa era of Parkinson's disease: insights into motor complications from sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article

Thyroid Disorders in Central Ghana: The Influence of 20 Years of Iodization

scientific article published on 4 July 2017

Trends in stroke admission and mortality rates from 1983 to 2013 in central Ghana

scientific article published on 4 August 2015

Unraveling the risk factors for spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage among West Africans

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

Validation of the 8-item questionnaire for verifying stroke free status with and without pictograms in three West African languages

scientific article published on June 2016

List of works by Fred Stephen Sarfo

Administration of a pictorial questionnaire to screen for stroke among patients with hypertension or diabetes in rural Ghana

Assessing Mobile Health Capacity and Task Shifting Strategies to Improve Hypertension Among Ghanaian Stroke Survivors

Associations between hypertension knowledge, awareness, and treatment and stroke occurrence across the globe: <i>time to act on what we know</i>

Baseline Prescription and One-Year Persistence of Secondary Prevention Drugs after an index Stroke in Central Ghana

Behavioural and Cognitive Effects of Cerebrovascular Diseases.

Biobanking in a Challenging African Environment: Unique Experience from the SIREN Project

Burden and Predictors of Poststroke Cognitive Impairment in a Sample of Ghanaian Stroke Survivors

Buruli ulcer control in a highly endemic district in Ghana: role of community-based surveillance volunteers

Buruli ulcer in Liberia, 2012

CD25+ FoxP3+ Memory CD4 T Cells Are Frequent Targets of HIV Infection In Vivo

Characteristics of hypertension among people living with HIV in Ghana: Impact of new hypertension guideline

Clearance of viable Mycobacterium ulcerans from Buruli ulcer lesions during antibiotic treatment as determined by combined 16S rRNA reverse transcriptase /IS 2404 qPCR assay.

Clinical efficacy of combination of rifampin and streptomycin for treatment of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease.

Comparison of two assays for molecular determination of rifampin resistance in clinical samples from patients with Buruli ulcer disease

Conceptual framework for establishing the African Stroke Organization

Detection of Mycolactone A/B in Mycobacterium ulcerans-Infected Human Tissue

Detection of highly prevalent hepatitis B virus coinfection among HIV-seropositive persons in Ghana

Detection of viable Mycobacterium ulcerans in clinical samples by a novel combined 16S rRNA reverse transcriptase/IS2404 real-time qPCR assay

Development and Reliability of a User-Friendly Multicenter Phenotyping Application for Hemorrhagic and Ischemic Stroke

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

Duration of antiretroviral therapy among people living with HIV and incidence of hypertension in Ghana

Echocardiographic Abnormalities and Determinants of 1-Month Outcome of Stroke Among West Africans in the SIREN Study

Effectiveness of routine BCG vaccination on buruli ulcer disease: a case-control study in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana and Togo

Estimated glomerular filtration rate predicts incident stroke among Ghanaians with diabetes and hypertension

Evaluation of Vascular Event Risk while on Long-term Anti-retroviral Suppressive Therapy [EVERLAST]: Protocol for a prospective observational study

Exploring Overlaps Between the Genomic and Environmental Determinants of LVH and Stroke :A Multicenter Study in West Africa

Factors associated with performing tuberculosis screening of HIV-positive patients in Ghana: LASSO-based predictor selection in a large public health data set.

Factors associated with uncontrolled blood pressure among Ghanaians: Evidence from a multicenter hospital-based study

Frequency & factors associated with apparent resistant hypertension among Ghanaians in a multicenter study

Frequency and determinants of thyroid autoimmunity in Ghanaian type 2 diabetes patients: a case-control study

Graves Disease in Central Ghana: Clinical Characteristics and Associated Factors

Helicobacter pylori Coinfection Is Associated With Decreased Markers of Immune Activation in ART-Naive HIV-Positive and in HIV-Negative Individuals in Ghana

Helicobacter pylori Infection Is Associated with Higher CD4 T Cell Counts and Lower HIV-1 Viral Loads in ART-Naïve HIV-Positive Patients in Ghana

Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA screening and sequencing using dry plasma spots

Hepatitis E virus infections in HIV-infected patients in Ghana and Cameroon

High frequency of active HCV infection among seropositive cases in west Africa and evidence for multiple transmission pathways

High prevalence of renal dysfunction and association with risk of death amongst HIV-infected Ghanaians

Immunosuppressive signature of cutaneous Mycobacterium ulcerans infection in the peripheral blood of patients with buruli ulcer disease

Inadvertent non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-based antiretroviral therapy in dual HIV-1/2 and HIV-2 seropositive West Africans: a retrospective study

Incidence and determinants of diabetes-related lower limb amputations in Ghana, 2010-2015- a retrospective cohort study

Incidence and determinants of nevirapine and efavirenz-related skin rashes in West Africans: nevirapine's epitaph?

Incidence and risk factors for neuropsychiatric events among Ghanaian HIV patients on long-term non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-based therapy

Incident stroke among Ghanaians with hypertension and diabetes: A multicenter, prospective cohort study

Infection with Mansonella perstans Nematodes in Buruli Ulcer Patients, Ghana

Interleukin–6 (IL-6) Rs1800796 and Cyclin Dependent Kinase Inhibitor (CDKN2A/CDKN2B) Rs2383207 are Associated with Ischemic Stroke in Indigenous West African Men

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of West Africans on genetic studies of stroke: Evidence from the SIREN Study

Liver Fibrosis by Transient Elastography and Virologic Outcomes After Introduction of Tenofovir in Lamivudine-Experienced Adults With HIV and Hepatitis B Virus Coinfection in Ghana

Long-Term Outcomes of Stroke in a Ghanaian Outpatient Clinic

Long-term effectiveness of first-line non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-based antiretroviral therapy in Ghana

Long-term responses to first-line antiretroviral therapy in HIV and hepatitis B co-infection in Ghana

Longitudinal control of blood pressure among a cohort of Ghanaians with hypertension: A multicenter, hospital-based study

Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification for Laboratory Confirmation of Buruli Ulcer Disease-Towards a Point-of-Care Test

Microbiological, histological, immunological, and toxin response to antibiotic treatment in the mouse model of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease

Mobile health for stroke: a promising concept for research and practice

Multilingual Validation of the Questionnaire for Verifying Stroke-Free Status in West Africa

Mycobacterium ulcerans DNA not detected in faecal samples from Buruli ulcer patients: results of a pilot study

Mycolactone diffuses into the peripheral blood of Buruli ulcer patients--implications for diagnosis and disease monitoring

Next-Generation Sequencing Reveals Frequent Opportunities for Exposure to Hepatitis C Virus in Ghana

One-Year Rates and Determinants of Poststroke Systolic Blood Pressure Control among Ghanaians.

Oral treatment for patients with Buruli ulcer co-infected with HIV: think twice.

PINGS (Phone-Based Intervention Under Nurse Guidance After Stroke): Interim Results of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Pharmacogenetic associations with plasma efavirenz concentrations and clinical correlates in a retrospective cohort of Ghanaian HIV-infected patients

Phenotyping Stroke in Sub-Saharan Africa: Stroke Investigative Research and Education Network (SIREN) Phenomics Protocol

Phone-based Intervention under Nurse Guidance after Stroke (PINGS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Phone-based intervention for blood pressure control among Ghanaian stroke survivors: A pilot randomized controlled trial

Plasma Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein, Copeptin, and Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Concentrations among West African Stroke Subjects Compared with Stroke-Free Controls

Post-stroke depression in Ghana: Characteristics and correlates

Potential role of tele-rehabilitation to address barriers to implementation of physical therapy among West African stroke survivors: A cross-sectional survey

Prevalence and Predictors of Sleep Apnea Risk among Ghanaian Stroke Survivors

Prevalence and Prognostic Features of ECG Abnormalities in Acute Stroke: Findings From the SIREN Study Among Africans ⬇️

Prevalence and incidence of pre-diabetes and diabetes mellitus among people living with HIV in Ghana: Evidence from the EVERLAST Study

Prevalence and predictors of chronic kidney disease among Ghanaian patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus: A multicenter cross-sectional study

Profile of neurological disorders in an adult neurology clinic in Kumasi, Ghana.

Quality of life among patients with moderate to advanced chronic kidney disease in Ghana - a single centre study

Recent advances: role of mycolactone in the pathogenesis and monitoring of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection/Buruli ulcer disease.

Recent patterns and predictors of neurological mortality among hospitalized patients in Central Ghana

Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa

Response by Sarfo and Ovbiagele to letter regarding "Post-stroke depression: Risk assessment".

Response by Sarfo and Ovbiagele to letter regarding "potential role of tele-rehabilitation to address barriers to implementation of physical therapy among West African stroke survivors: A cross-sectional survey".