BOOK CHAPTER

1. Isaac Kofi Owusu, Vincent Bioma, Alfred Doku, Lambert Appiah, Collins Kokuro, Francis Agyekum, Aba Folson, Allen Steele-Dadzie, Dzifa Ahadzi, Seth Nani, Fiifi Duodu, Felix Awidaogo. 2024 Focused Update of the 2019 National Guidelines for the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases. Ministry of Health Ghana, 2024 moh.gov.gh

2. Isaac Kofi Owusu, Alfred Doku, Emmanuel Acheamfour-Akowuah, Felix Awindaogo. Facilitator’s Manual for Advanced Heart Failure Management. Ministry of Health Ghana, 2023. 1^st www.moh.gov.gh

3. Isaac Kofi Owusu, Alfred Doku, Emmanuel Acheamfour-Akowuah, Felix Awindaogo. Facilitator’s Manual for Advanced Heart Failure Management. Ministry of Health Ghana, 2023. 1^st www.moh.gov.gh

4. Isaac Kofi Owusu, Christof Vinnemeier, Lena Huebl, et at. Facilitator’s Manual for the Management of Deep vein Thrombosis. Ministry of Health Ghana, 2021. 1^st www.moh.gov.gh

5. Isaac Kofi Owusu, Cynthia Bannerman, Alfred Doku, et al. Training Manual for the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases. Ministry of Health Ghana, 2020. 1^st www.moh.gov.gh

6. Osei Asibey, Francis Agyeman Yeboah, W. K. B. A. Owiredu, Emmanuel Acheampong, Enoch Odame Anto, Isaac K. Owusu (2020). A comparative Cross-Sectional Study on Interplay of Adipokines in the Pathogenesis of Essential Hypertension in Ghana. Chapter 5. Research Trends and Challenges in Medical Science Vol. 6. Book Publisher International DOI: 10.9734/bpi/rtcms/v6  Print ISBN: 978-93-90206-91-9    eBook ISBN: 978-93-90206-926
7. Aba Folson, Abdul-Samed Tanko, Alexander Baafi Agyekum, Alfred Doku, Collins Kokuro, Desrie Delsol-Gyan, Dzidzo Afi Anaglate, Eugene Amable, Fiifi Duodu, Francis Agyekum, Isaac Nana Ogyefo, Isaac Owusu, et la. National Guidelines for the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases. Ministry of Health Ghana, 2019. 1st Edition. moh.gov.gh

8. Expert Committee Members. Standard Treatment Guidelines. Ghana National Drugs Programme. Ministry of Health Ghana, 2017. 7^th www.moh.gov.gh, www.ghndp.org ISBN 978-9988-2-5787-3

9. Expert Committee Members. Standard Treatment Guidelines. Ghana National Drugs Programme. Ministry of Health Ghana, 2010. 6^th www.moh.gov.gh, www.ghndp.org ISBN 978-9988-1-2538-7

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

1. Francis Agyekum, Florence Koryo Akumiah, Samuel Blay Nguah, Lambert Tetteh Appiah, Khushali Ganatra, Yaw Adu-Boakye, Aba Ankomaba Folson, Harold Ayetey, Isaac Kofi Owusu. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk among Ghanaians: A comparison of the risk assessment tools. American Journal of Preventive Cardiology,Volume 18, 2024,100670, ISSN 2666-6677,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpc.2024.100670.
2. Felix Awindaogo, Emmanuel Acheamfour-Akowuah, Alfred Doku, Collins Kokuro, Francis Agyekum, Isaac Kofi Owusu. Assessing and Improving the Care of Patients With Heart Failure in Ghana: Protocol for a Prospective Observational Study and the Ghana Heart Initiative-Heart Failure Registry. JMIR Res Protoc 2024;13:e52616doi: 10.2196/52616
3. Minkah D, Owusu I K, Kokuro C, et al. (March 18, 2024) Prevalence of Increased QTc Dispersion Among Hypertensive Patients and Its Correlation to Clinical Risk Factors: A Hospital-Based Case-Control Study. Cureus 16(3): e56423. DOI 10.7759/cureus.56423
4. Manasseh B. Wireko, Jacobus Hendricks, Kweku Bedu-Addo, Marlise Van Staden, Emmanuel A. Ntim, John A. Larbi, and Isaac K. Owusu. Association Between Alcohol Consumption and Blood Pressure Levels Among HIV Sero-Positive and Sero-Negative Cohorts: A Secondary Analysis of the Vukuzazzi Study. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2024 Volume 15: 1–11DOI: 10.1177/21501319241235594 journals.sagepub.com/home/jpc
5. Isaac Kofi Owusu, Gordon Manu Amponsah and Yaw Amo Wiafe. Severe Pulmonary Hypertension from Combined Ventricular Septal Defect and Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease: A Case Report and Literature Review. Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports, 2024, Volume 17: 1 DOI:10.1177/11795476241231140
6. Francis Agyekum, Aba Ankomaba Folson, Benjamin Abaidoo, Lambert Tetteh Appiah, Yaw Adu?Boakye, Harold Ayetey and Isaac Kofi Owusu. Behavioural and nutritional risk factors for cardiovascular diseases among the Ghanaian population- a cross-sectional study, BMC Public Health, 2024, 24:194. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-17709-5
7. Manasseh B. Wireko, Jacobus Hendricks, Kweku Bedu-Addo, Marlise Van Staden, Emmanuel A. Ntim, Samuel F. Odoom, Isaac K. Owusu. Alcohol consumption and HIV disease prognosis among virally unsuppressed in Rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. AIMS Medical Science, 2023, 10(3): 223-236. doi: 10.3934/medsci.2023018
8. Wiafe YA, Acheamfour-Akowuah E, Owusu IK. Indications for echocardiography and confirmation rates of cardiovascular diseases: Experience of a specialist cardiac outpatient clinic in Kumasi, Ghana. Ann Afr Med 2023;22:440-5. DOI: 10.4103/aam.aam_151_22
9. Gordon Manu Amponsah, Yaw Adu-Boakye, Maureen Nyarko, Henry Kofi Andoh, Kwaku Gyasi Danso, Manolo Agbenoku, Isaac Kofi Owusu. Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis together with thyrotoxic heart disease in a Ghanaian man: case report and literature review. AIMS Medical Science, March 2023, Volume 10, Issue 1, 46–54. DOI: 10.3934/medsci.2023005
10. Isaac Kofi Owusu, Emmanuel Acheamfour-Akowuah1, Lois Amoah-Kumi, Yaw Amo Wiafe, Stephen Opoku, Enoch Odame Anto. The correlation between obesity and other cardiovascular disease risk factors among adult patients attending a specialist clinic in Kumasi. Ghana. AIMS Medical Science February 2023, Volume 10, Issue 1, 24–36. DOI: 10.3934/medsci.2023003
11. Isaac Kofi Owusu, Emmanuel Acheamfour-Akowuah, Yaw Amo Wiafe. Clinical and Socio-Demographic Profiles of Patients Seen with Rheumatic Heart Disease in a Cardiac Clinic of a Tertiary Hospital in Ghana. Research Reports in Clinical Cardiology 2022:13 85–93
12. Owusu IK, Wiafe YA, Opoku S, Anto EO, Acheamfour-Akowuah E. Cardiac Abnormalities of People Living with HIV: A Comparative Study Between HAART Experience and Treatment Naïve Groups in Ghana. Int J Gen Med. 2022 Jun 29;15:5849-5859. doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S366688. PMID: 35791316; PMCID: PMC9250786.
13. Owusu IK, Wiafe YA. Atrial Septal Aneurysm and Intermittent Atrio -Ventricular Block: A Case Report and Literature Review. Front Med Case Rep 2021; 2(1): 1-06
14. Jie Li, Isaac Kofi Owusu, Qingshan Geng, Aba Ankomaba Folson, Zhichao Zheng, MD, PhD; Yaw Adu-Boakye, Xinran Dong, Wen-Chih Wu, Francis Agyekum, Hongwen Fei, Harold Ayetey, Mulan Deng, Fred Adomako-Boateng, Zuxun Jiang, Braimah Baba Abubakari, Zhao Xian, Forster Nketiah Fokuoh, Lambert Tetteh Appiah, Simin Liu, Chunying Lin. Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Preclinical Target Organ Damage Among Adults in Ghana: Findings From a National Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020;9:e017492. DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.120.017492
15. Paul Poku Sampene Ossei, Isaac Kofi Owusu, Gerald Owusu-Asubongteng, Frank Ankobea-Kokroe, William Gilbert Ayibor and Nicholas Niako. Prevalence of Venous Thromboembolism in Kumasi: A Postmortem-Based Study in a Tertiary Hospital in Ghana. Clinical Medicine Insights: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine, Volume 14: 1-5, 2020. DOI: 10.1177/1179548420956364
16. Waindim Nyiambam, Augustina A. Sylverken, Isaac K. Owusu, Kwame O. Buabeng, Fred A. Boateng and Ellis Owusu-Dabo. Cardiovascular disease risk assessment among patients attending two cardiac clinics in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Ghana Med J 2020; 54(3): 140-145doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gmj.v54i3.3
17. Nsutebu N, Owusu IK, Buabeng KO, Bonsu KO. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and management of hypertension at a cardiac clinic in Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana. J Clin Hypertens. 2020; 00: 1–9.https ://doi.org/10.1111/jch.13822
18. Owusu I.K. and Wiafe Y.A. (2019) Left Ventricular Dysfunction: The Perspective of Echocardiography in Ghana. World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases, 9, 639-648. https://doi.org/10.4236/wjcd.2019.99057
19. Isaac Kofi Owusu, Fred Adomako-Boateng, Fred Kueffer, Molly Guy, Chemuttaai Lang’at, Daniel B Grossman, Teri Whitman, Keith Holloman, Douglas A Hettrick and Opare-Sem O. Novel Hypertension Management Model of Care Improves Blood Pressure Control in a West African Population. J Hypertens 2018, 7:2DOI: 10.4172/2167-1095.1000257
20. Osei Asibey, Francis Agyemang Yeboah, W.K.B.A. Owiredu, Emmanuel Acheampong, Enoch Odame Anto, Isaac K. Owusu (2018). Interplay of adipokines in the pathogenesis of essential hypertension: A comparative cross-sectional Study in Ghana. Alex J Med, https:doi.org/10.1016/j.ajme.2018.07.004.
21. Asafu Adjaye Frimpong G., Owusu I.K., Anyitey-Korkor I.C., Wiafe-Kwakye C.S.N.S., Aboagye E., Coleman N.E., Amankwah P., Abaidoo N.K. (2018) Age-Gender Distribution of Coronary Artery Calcium Score in a Black African Population in Ghana. Vascular Health and Risk Management, 14 1–6.
22. Owusu I.K., Acheamfour-Akowuah E. (2018) Pattern of Cardiovascular Diseases as Seen in an Out-Patient Cardiac Clinic in Ghana. World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases, 8, 70-84. https://doi.org/10.4236/wjcd.2018.81008 
23. William KBA Owiredu, James Osei-Yeboah, Christian Aryee, Ellis Owusu-Darbo, Edwin F. Laing, Isaac K. Owusu. (2017) Gender Specific Predictive Performance and Optimal Threshold of Anthropometric Indeces for the Prediction of Hypertension among a Ghanaian Population in Kumasi. Asian Journal of Medicine and Health. 9 (3): 1-10.
24. K. O. Bonsu, I. K. Owusu, K. O. Buabeng, D. D. Reidpath, A. Kadirvelu. Statin Treatment and Clinical Outcomes of Heart Failure Among Africans: An Inverse Probability Treatment Weighted Analysis. Journal of American Heart Association 6 (4), e004706. 2017.
25. K. O. Bonsu, I. K. Owusu, K. O. Buabeng, D. D. Reidpath, A. Kadirvelu. Clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients admitted for heart failure: A 5-year retrospective study of African patients, International Journal of Cardiology, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2017.03.014
26. Isaac Kofi Owusu, Fred Adomako-Boateng, Daniel Grossman, Fred Kueffer, Molly Guy, Chemuttaai Lang’At, Douglas Hettrick, Teri Whitman, Keith Holloman, O. Opare-Sem. Novel Hypertension Management Model of Care Decreases Blood Pressure in West African Population. Journal of Hypertension 35, e305, 2017
27. Owusu IK, Acheamfour-Akowuah E (2017) Determinants of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Hypertensive Patients seen in a Teaching Hospital in Ghana. J Hypertens 6: 238. doi:4172/2167-1095.1000238
28. Acheamfour-Akowuah E, Owusu I. K., Nkum Bernard C. (2016). Blood Pressure Control Status of Hypertensive Patients Attending an Outpatient Specialist Clinic in Ghana. Open Science Journal of Clinical Medicine. 4, No. 5, pp. 28-34.
29. Acheamfour-Akowuah E., Owusu I. K. (2016). Prevalence and Correlates of Electrocardiographic Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Hypertensive Patients at a Specialist Clinic in Techiman, Ghana. IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences Volume 15, Issue 11 Ver. III, PP 100-109.
30. Acheamfour-Akowuah E., Owusu I. K. (2016). Prevalence and Correlates of Electrocardiographic Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Hypertensive Patients at a Specialist Clinic in Techiman, Ghana. IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences Volume 15, Issue 11 Ver. III, PP 100-109.