The aim of this study is to compare abdominal exercises using conventional gymnastic and the abdominal ball. The intensity of each abdominal exercise is analyzed through electromyography. The muscles analyzed were: rectus abdominis and external obliquus. One of the factors that help mainten a good posture is the stabilizing of the trunk muscles, known as "CORE".
This research aimed to describe the epidemiological profile of malaria in the municipality of Candeias do Jamari, State of Rondônia, Brazi in the period 2012 to 2016. This is an epidemiological study, descriptive and exploratory, with bibliographic and documentary methods, using secondary, retrospective data and quantitative approach, carried out by collecting information from the Epidemiological Surveillance System information Malaria municipality of Candeias do Jamari.
Background: Liver is a vital organ. It serves the function of metabolizing drugs and most substances consumed by us. Liver also is the site of synthesis of various clotting factors. Liver maybe affected by a variety of conditions such as Hepatitis, Jaundice, Cirrhosis, Hepatocellular carcinoma and liver failure. Diseases of the liver also affects the appetite, digestion and immunity of the entire body. Oral health may also be adversely affected due to various liver diseases.
Many functional and metabolic disorders found in elderly population are resulting from poor eating habits and, therefore, they are considered a group of risk and vulnerability as it concerns the nutritional aspects. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the correlation of hypertension, diabetes and obesity against the consumption of macronutrients in a population sample of elderly in a Brazilian city. This is an exploratory research, qualitative and quantitative approach, carried out in an interior of the municipality of Bahia, with 795 elderly individuals.
On an exhilarating journey of a research study and with potential process to step in, one can be assured of a long ride through literature to pick up an appropriate research design. This can look like one of the delicate tasks one might have, even though generations have gone through the similar procedure. The accepted opinion is that the more choice, the better; and in the midst of very best kinds, the human ability to deal with, and the aspiration for selection is limitless. Having more choices is necessarily motivating than having fewer.
Introduction & Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory systemic disease of unknown etiology with a variety of extraarticular manifestations including fatigue, subcutaneous nodules, lung involvement, pericarditis, peripheral neuropathy, vasculitis, and hematologic abnormalities including anaemia. Anemia in rheumatoid arthritis is common and multifactorial. We studied the prevalence, type of anemia and its correlation with disease activity in Indian patients in a tertiary care hospital.
This manuscript provides a review of the recent literature on anxiety and depressive disorders. In the last decades there has been an increase in the diagnoses of depression and anxiety, which are caused by the excellence of psychic suffering and responsible for incapacitating thousands of individuals to daily life. In ancient Greece, depression and its symptoms were known as melancholy. Anxiety has been termed anxiety neurosis and Angstneurosis. However, regardless of the name, the symptoms of both diseases are the same, of course, maintaining the proportion of each.
There was described a case of extra pulmonary lymph nodes tuberculosis in a type 2 diabetes mellitus chronic hemodialysed (HD) patient, with hepatitis B virus. The association of these comorbiditieshasraised therapeutic controversy. The signs and symptoms and also, thebiopsy and imaging investigations were initially interpreted as sarcoidosis and treated accordingly. Unfavorable clinical evolution under corticosteroids decided reevaluating the histological sections, which were positive for the diagnosis of tuberculosis.
The aim of this study was to evaluate nurses' knowledge about complications related to mechanical ventilation. It is a descriptive, exploratory and quantitative approach, elaborated from the data collection structured by a questionnaire with nurses of a tertiary-level hospital in the city of Fortaleza / Ce, from February to July 2017. The results were submitted to simple regressive statistics using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 20.0.
Unlike typical angina, which is often triggered by exertion or emotional stress, Prinzmetal’s angina almost always occurs when a person is at rest, usually between midnight and early morning. These attacks can be very painful. Prinzmetal’s angina is rare, representing about two out of 100 cases of angina, and usually occurs in younger patients than those who have other kinds of angina. The coronary arteries can cause a spasm due to stress and smoking, as the case we will describe.