Database Hits Search Period Cochrane Library      9 All time  PubMed (Including Medline) 709 All time Mesh(MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS (MeSH) 0 All time AJOL 32 All time

Table 2a: Search results using the search phrase: Nigeria AND (diabetes OR diabetic OR diabetics). A total of 750 initial hits resulted from a search of the stated databases.