Past Issue

In the 20`s and 30´s, the weightlifters decided to migrate to bodybuilding aiming more recognition of the society through a body with developed and symmetric muscular mass. Even as others sports, bodybuilding is susceptible to injuries during the training process and this can cause financial prejudices, laborlicense and treatment costs impacting in the athlete health and quality of life. The aim of the present study was to identify the prevalence of injuries and musculoskeletal symptoms in amateurs athletes of bodybuilding.

Objectives: To compare the effect of Brassica oleracea extract ointment (cabbage ointment) and Matricaria recutita (chamomile) tea compresses for the prevention of radiodermatitis in women with breast cancer. Design: Randomized controlled trial. Setting: Radiotherapy Department of the Hospital Araújo Jorge (Goiania, Brazil). Subjects: The sample consisted of women initiating adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer. Interventions: Participants were randomized into two groups. Group 1 (n=23) received chamomile tea bags to be applied as compresses twice a day at room temperature.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar sujidades leves e parâmetros microbiológicos presentes em Carne Mecanicamente Separada produzida com resíduos de filetagem de tilápia. A metodologia para determinação de sujidades leves foi realizada pela adaptação da metodologia, descrita pela AOAC (2000). As análises microbiológicas realizadas foram: enumeração de coliformes termotolerantes, contagem de unidades formadoras de colônias (UFC/g) de Staphylococcus coagulase positiva, presença de Salmonella spp.

Objective: to analyze the influence of serum sodium (sNa) on heart rate variability (HRV) in chronic dialytic renal patients. Methods: cross-sectional study with comparative approach with subjects undergoing maintenance hemodialysis and a control group. Resting HRV, in time (TD) and frequency domain (FD) analysis, and evaluation of biochemical markers of renal function were performed.The volunteers were allocated into three groups: normotremia dialysis group (NDG), hyponatremia dialysis group (HDG) and a control group (CG).

Doença cerebral crônico-degenerativa, progressiva e irreversível, o Alzheimer, torna o paciente dependente de um cuidador, por ter sua integridade física, mental e social afetada.Considerada a mais comum e prevalente entre idosos, a mesma não tem cura, contudo a terapêutica empregada retarda a sintomatologia. Apresenta etiologia multifatorial com características neuropatológicas e neuroquímicas específicas.Com isso, o cuidador deve compreender a progressão clínica da doença e assim assistir o paciente integralmente.

Introduction: Biosafety aims to promote infection control measures to protect the health team, academics and the community against exposure to potentially pathogenic biological agents. Objective: to analyze the scientific evidence available in the literature that refer to the teaching and knowledge of nursing students about biosafety. Method: integrative literature review using the LILACS, MedLine, Scielo, BDENF and PubMed databases. Publications from January 2000 to June 2018 were used.

The authors are commenting on the study entitled “Spectral-domain OCT predictors of visual outcomes after ranibizumab treatment for macular edema resulting from retinal vein occlusion” published by Yiu et al. in Ophthalmology Retina 2020;4(1):67-76. Published online August 28, 2019.The conclusion of this study was that none of the imaging biomarkers showed an independent association with visual outcomes after 7 monthly ranibizumab injections in both central and branch retinal vein occlusions.

Sixty (60) patients were included in this study, were diagnosed as established AS patients who were attending the rheumatology outpatient clinic of Baghdad teaching hospital, thirty (30) patients of them were on conventional treatment (steroid and/or cytotoxic drugs), while the other thirty (30) patients were on biological treatment (infliximab infusion).The Human Leucocyte Antigen B-27 waspositive in 34 (56.7 %) patients, and in no subject (0%) from controlgroup and this difference is highly statistically significant (P- Value <0.0001) and there is a significant difference of high sensi

Objetivo: Analisar o conhecimento e prática dos Enfermeiros (as) sobre a estratégia AIDPI e sua contribuição para redução dos principais agravos à saúde infantil em menores de cinco anos em Imperatriz - MA. Método: Trata-se de um estudo descritivo, com abordagem quantitativa, caracterizada como pesquisa bibliográfica, na forma de estudo de campo realizada com 40 enfermeiros que se enquadraram segundo os critérios de avaliação da pesquisa através do preenchimento de um questionário estruturado que contemplaram os dados sociodemográficos e específicos da estratégia AIDPI.