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Embora estudos sustentem maior vulnerabilidade ao stress na população feminina, há escassez de dados sobre a população de hipertensos. Realizou-se um estudo transversal para verificar a diferença na prevalência de sintomas de stress entre os gêneros, por meio da aplicação do Inventário de Sintomas de Stress de Lipp e de um questionário de dados sociodemográficos. Os resultados não mostram diferença estatisticamente significativa concernente à presença de sintomas de stress entre as amostras masculina (n=33) e feminina (n=70). Contudo, mais homens apresentaram escores na fase de resistência (60,6 por cento), enquanto a fase de quase-exaustão preponderou entre as mulheres: 41,4 por cento versus 15,2 por cento dos homens. Considerando sintomas físicos e psicológicos no geral, independente de predominância de fase, as mulheres relataram ter significativamente mais sintomas psicológicos de stress nos escores referentes às fases de resistência, quase-exaustão e à fase de exaustão (p<0,05). Esses achados podem auxiliar no planejamento de abordagens de controle de stress.
Even though studies support the idea of greater vulnerability to stress in the female population, there is a dearth of studies related to hypertensive patients. A cross-sectional study was conducted with the aim of verifying the difference in the prevalence of stress symptoms in a male and female sample of hypertensive patients, using Lipp's Adult Stress Symptoms Inventory and a socio-demographic questionnaire. There was no statistically significant difference in respect of the presence of stress symptoms between males (n=33) and females (n=70). However, men obtained higher scores in the resistance phase (60.6 percent), while women obtained higher scores in the near-exhaustion phase (41.4 percent versus 15.2 percent of men). Considering overall physical and psychological symptoms, irrespective of the predominant phase, women reported significantly higher psychological stress symptoms than men in terms of the scores in the resistance and near-exhaustion phases, as well as the scores in the exhaustion phase (p<0.05). These findings may help in the planning of stress-management strategies.
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Humans , Male , Female , Gender Identity , Hypertension , Stress, PsychologicalABSTRACT
We inquiry, in the epidemiologic history of 42 patients with cryptococcosis, the contact with pigeon, trying to find the possible source of infection. Of these patients, the information compatible with ecologic niche of Cryptococcus neoformans was positive in 16. Fifty nine samples were recovered from soil, associated with pigeon habitat. We found C. neoformans in four occasions, one in the capital and three in the interior of state. C. neoformans, serotype A, recovered from a central spine fluid coincides with the serotype of the fungus recovered downtown Porto Alegre, in a place suggested by the patient as possible source of infection, characterizing of a case of Cryptococcus neoformans. var. neoformans.
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Humans , Animals , Cryptococcus neoformans , Soil Microbiology , Columbidae , Cryptococcosis , Cryptococcus neoformans , FecesABSTRACT
Após revisäo bibliográfica, faz-se uma síntese dos aspectos clínicos e terapêuticos relacionados com as intoxicaçöes por pesticidas inibidores da colinesterase, objetivando fornecer atualizaçäo ao médico generalista e, desta forma, melhorar o atendimento e diminuir a mortalidade ora existente
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Humans , Male , Female , Atropine/administration & dosage , Carbamates/poisoning , Cholinesterase Inhibitors/pharmacology , Cholinesterase Reactivators/administration & dosage , Insecticides, Organophosphate/poisoningABSTRACT
Revisa-se a passagem das drogas para o leite materno, nos seus aspectos farmacodinâmicos e farmacocinéticos, relacionando aquelas que podem ou näo causar efeitos indesejáveis no lactente