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Objective: To understand the perception of patients with chronic kidney disease on nursing care in a Hemodialysis Clinic of Belém / PA. Methodology: Qualitative research, developed in Renal Disease Clinic and Diagnostic Methods with 10 patients on renal replacement therapy (hemodialysis), whose data collection took place through semi-structured interview, based on the Bardin method. Results and Discussion: The categories that emerged from the study were: Hemodialysis as life expectancy; Difficulties in hemodialysis treatment; Nursing care in the treatment of hemodialysis patients.

This report has aimed to serosurvey Leptospira spp. and Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in two animal hoarding cases in Curitiba, Brazil. Blood samples from 15 dogs and 12 cats were tested, of which 3/15 (20.0%) dogs and 1/12 (8.3%) cat were seropositive to Leptospira spp. and 1/15 (6.6%) dog and 4/12 (33.3%) cats positive to T. gondii. The present report may be the first description of T. gondii and Leptospira spp. antibody status in dog and cat hoarding cases of Brazil.

Enteroparasites comprise a species of organisms that affect the gastrointestinal tract of humans and depending on the degree of pathogenicity may lead to the death of the infected individual. In addition to the most frequent intestinal parasites found in Brazil, there are now reports of the appearance of Urbanorum spp., A new parasite discovered by researcher Francisco Tirado Santamaria, parasitologist at the Universidad Industrial de Santander - Colombia. This parasite is beginning to be reported in the literature by researchers from Brazil.

Introduction: With advancing age women suffer from physiological and morphological changes that may culminate in chronic diseases. Among these changes is menopause, recognized as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, affecting both the quality of life and longevity. Objective: evaluate the correlation and to draw the epidemiological profile of risk factors in climacteric women. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional epidemiological research. The sample consisted of 148 women, divided into age groups, group A consisting of women aged 40 to 49 years and group B women aged 50 to 59 years.

This The Framingham Heart Study is a prospective longitudinal cohort study that began in 1948 with the enrollment of 5209 men. Women who were free of cardiovascular disease and between the ages of 28 and 62 years. As the largest and oldest cohort study ever produced, it has completed 70 years since its first data collection and has contributed in many ways to the scientific and academic community. The data produced by the FSH produced studies that proved the influence of some risk factors to predict the onset of illness, morbidity and mortality.

Rolling bearings are considered as the inspection monitor for the performance of machines. There are many parameters affecting the performance of this type of bearings, including type of rolling bearings, applied loads (radial or axial), type of lubricating medium, type of mounting fits between the bearing and its shaft (and housing) and the temperature of the environment. The study of this paper has focused on investigating the effect of mounting fits on bearing performance.

Waste is something that is not useful, not used, not liked or something that is discarded that comes from human activities and does not happen by itself. Medical waste is any type of waste that contains infectious material or potentially infectious material (WHO 2004). This definition includes waste generated by health facilities such as doctor's offices, hospitals, dental practices, laboratories, medical research facilities, and veterinary clinics (WHO 2015).

The rise of the Sarvāstivāda-school in Buddhism Philosophy as a distinct group dates back to the 2nd to 1st centuries BCE. This school have been of major importance in the development of Śrāvakayāna (Hinayana) Buddhism, as well as for the origin of the Mahayana. It was one of the parent lines in the genealogic tree of the Eighteen Schools, consistently identified in traditional adoxography as one of the earlier Sthavira groups. It is known from the inscription that Sarvāstivāda's greatest strength is the Northwest, from Mathura to Afghanistan and the Central Asian desert.

The central goal of Buddhism is to initiate a transformative process that would help people become less capable of perpetrating suffering, stress, and sickness of the mind. The Lord Buddha diagnosed the sickness (suffering), identified its cause (the original cause of suffering), explained that the sickness was curable (the cessation of suffering), and showed the way to treat the sickness (the way leading to the cessation of suffering). In order to solve the causes, there is the threefold training: morality (sīla), meditation (samādhi) and wisdom (paññā) respectively.

Introduction: Overweight and obesity among adolescent school children has been observed in recent years in most countries. The majority of overweight and obese adolescent children will become obese adults having an increased risk for chronic diseases associated with obesity, with a negative impact on their lifespan. Objective: Assessing the overweight and obesity and prevalence among adolescent school children and also to study the association of obesity with dietary food pattern in formations knowledge on overweight and obesity among adolescent.