Dr. Abimbola Olufunke Akanji M.D.
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
1867 REMOUNT RD GASTONIA NC, 28054About
Dr. Abimbola Akanji practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Hampton, VA. Dr. Akanji evaluates patients throughout childhood and adolescence using many different procedures, in order to determine what treatments must be carried out in order to properly assess their symptoms. Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists are trained and certified to administer psychotherapy, medication, and many other means of treatment. Dr. Akanji seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
Education and Training
Ogun State University, Coll of Health Sciences, Ogun, Nigeria MD
Ogun State University College Of Health Science Ogun Nigeria 1991
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Metabolic and anthropometric determinants of serum Lp(a) concentrations and Apo(a) polymorphism in a healthy Arab population.
- Apo(a) isoforms do not predict risk for coronary heart disease in a Gulf Arab population.
- Beneficial changes in serum apo A-1 and its ratio to apo B and HDL in stable hyperlipidaemic subjects after Ramadan fasting in Kuwait.
- Relation of serum total sialic acid concentrations with diabetic complications and cardiovascular risk factors in Kuwaiti Type 2 diabetic patients.
- Hypergammaglobulinemic purpura of Waldenström: report of 3 cases with a short review.
- Homocysteine and endogenous markers of renal function in type 2 diabetic patients without coronary heart disease.
- Effect of insulin on transport kinetics of alpha-aminoisobutyric acid in the perfused human placental lobule in vitro.
- Association of C-reactive protein with coronary heart disease risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Pattern of adrenocortical response to the stress of severe illness in Nigerians.
- Risk factors, subtypes and outcome of ischaemic stroke in Kuwait--a hospital-based study.
- Some determinants of postprandial lipaemia in Nigerian diabetic and non-diabetic subjects.
- HLA determinants of susceptibility to multiple sclerosis in an Arabian Gulf population.
- Apolipoprotein E polymorphism and lipoprotein levels in a Gulf Arab population in Kuwait: a pilot study.
- Putative role of serum insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and IGF binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) levels in the development of prostate cancer in Arab men.
- Sheehan's syndrome in a developing country, Nigeria: a rare disease or problem of diagnosis?
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