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The purpose of this study was to investigate factors related to nutrient mixture composition that contribute to the liver complications in patients chronically treated with parenteral nutrition. The retrospective study included 94 patients (53 female, 41 male), aged 24 to 81 years (mean age 54.5 years). Patients were followed up every 3 months on average, which was the basis for dividing the course of treatment of each patient into treatment periods. A single treatment period with a follow-up at the end was used as the basic unit for comparative analyses presented below.

Objective: Acute health problems and illnesses that a person in a certain building lives without a specific illness or cause are defined as Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). The purpose of this study is to investigate the complaints of volunteers working in the 3rd stage general intensive care unit and the operating room and the possible causes of these complaints. Method: Volunteers working in the tertiary intensive care unit (ICU) and in the operating room (OR) were taken into the study. Participants were asked to respond to a questionnaire.

Systematic review and meta-analysis is now considered the highest level of the evidence in the field of research. The results from multiple studies may yield the different estimates of the treatment effects as sometimes a randomized clinical trial may fail to give a clear and robust result. In systematic review by identifying all published and unpublished information in a given clinical area and pooling the results in a statistically valid fashion by performing meta-analysis, it is possible to arrive at a more precise estimate of treatment effect.

The term ‘migraine’ for very long has been used to refer to severe headache but it has more to it. There are certain physiologic changes occurring in brain that lead to pain in half side of head usually with associated symptoms like nausea, vomiting and visual disturbances. The exact cause of migraine is not known but various postulates explain the physiopathology of migraine and its course. It is believed to be because of either vascular, neurochemical, neuronal and hormonal changes.

Cleidocranial Dysostosis (CCD) is characterized as a rare autosomal dominant genetic syndrome with no gender preference, characterized by a defect in the gene CBFA1 of chromosome 6p21, which modulate the formation of osteoblasts. Its clinical characteristics are clavicle aplasia or hypoplasia, changes in skeletal level with influence on the anatomical structure of the wearer and polydontia. There is no specific treatment, and the main conduct is to offer the best possible quality of life to the bearer, and this involves oral health.

The study was aimed to assess the Maintenance Hemodialysis (MHD) Patients' Satisfaction with Care in Hemodialysis Unit. A descriptive design was used on 70 Maintenance Hemodialysis (MHD) Patients of hemodialysis unit of Deep Kidney Care Centre, Model Town, Ludhiana, Punjab. With the help of total enumerative sampling technique, 70 Maintenance Hemodialysis (MHD) Patients were selected. Structured Patient Satisfaction Scale (PSS) was used to assess Maintenance Hemodialysis (MHD) Patients' Satisfaction with Care in Hemodialysis Unit.

The objective of this study was to identify the characteristics and the profile of pediatric hospitalizations in hospitals of the public health system in the Northeast of Brazil. A retrospective study was carried out, consisting of 82 children who were hospitalized in a small public hospital in the Brazilian northeast. It was found that 52.4% of the children were female, while 47.5% were male. It was observed that 100% of the interviewees were of the brown color, where 56% lived in the rural area and 44% lived in the urban area.

Introduction: actions and services offered to the population can be analyzed through a geographical information system, such as in the case of data geoprocessing linked to the conditioning and determining factors of health. Objective: to describe the distribution of spatial offer of physical activity practice in the Primary Health Care, in the municipality of Campo Grande – MS, Brazil.

Objective: This study sought to evaluate the health conditions of elderly people in a status of coresidence. Methods: This is a descriptive study, with a cross-sectional design and quantitative approach. It was performed in a Family Health Unit in the city of Vitória da Conquista - Bahia. The data were produced through the application of questionnaires containing questions about the elderly sociodemographic characteristics, life habits and health status. Results: A total of 125 elderly people living in coresidence status participated in the study.

The Montgomery multiplication algorithm such that the low-cost and high-performance Montgomery modular multiplier can be implemented accordingly. The proposed multiplier receives and outputs the data with binary representation and uses only one-level carry-save adder (CSA) to avoid the carry propagation at each addition operation.