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Peter A. Idowu

Work place: Obafemi Awolowo University, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria

E-mail: paidowu@oauife.edu.ng

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Research Interests: Medical Informatics, Software Engineering, Geographic Information System, Multimedia Information System, Data Structures and Algorithms

Biography

Peter A. Idowu is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. Dr Idowu received his B.Sc. (Computer Science with Economics) from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria and MPhil (Computer Science) from Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom in 1998 and 2009 respectively. He also has PhD (Computer Science) from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria in 2012. His research focus is on applied computing that is application of computing to address and solve health related problems in Sub Saharan Africa. He has over 70 publications to his credit in local journals, international journals and referred conference proceedings. He is currently researching into HIV/AIDS, Disease modelling and cloud computing in health care delivery.
He is also a Member of British Computer Society, Internet Society Nigeria Chapter, Nigerian Computer Society, Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria, Nigerian Young Academy, International Geospatial Society, International Association of Engineers and International Federation of Information Processing WG 9.4. His research interest includes Health Informatics, Data Modelling, Software Engineering, Geographical Information System, and Informatics. Within the last five years, Dr Idowu has successively trained over 15 graduate students (both Master and Doctoral students). He is blessed with three Research Associates; Praise, Vicky and Peter. He enjoys reading and driving.

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Development of a Mobile-Based Hypertension Risk Monitoring System

By Ngozi C. Egejuru Oluwadare Ogunlade Peter A. Idowu

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2019.04.02, Pub. Date: 8 Jul. 2019

Hypertension is a silent killer, which gives no warning signs to alert a patient and can only be detected through regular blood pressure check¬ups. Uncontrolled and unmonitored hypertension contributed to stroke, chronic kidney disease, eye problem, and heart failure. It is an ongoing challenge to health care systems worldwide. Early detection of hypertension and creating awareness will greatly reduce the effect of hypertension and its related diseases. Also, having a mobile-based system will help patients to know their status, relate with Doctor and enjoy the quick response from the Doctor on hypertension diagnostic effect on their health. The mobile application will help in monitoring patients anytime, anywhere and provide services for each patient based on their personal health condition. The mobile application was designed using unified modeling language and implemented using the Extensible Mark-Up Language and Java programming language for the mobile layout and content, while JavaScript Object Notation was used to implement the data storage and retrieval mechanism of the system. The system was tested using data collected from hospital, which yielded an accuracy of 100%. In conclusion, the system will assist in providing timely, efficient, accurate and comprehensive information about hypertension, which is useful for Doctors and patients in detecting, diagnosing, classifying and managing hypertension and its risk.

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