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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Quality of life after acute coronary heart disease amongst patients is important outcome factor in deliberations of patient's care. The main aim of the study was to examine the quality of life amongst acute CHD patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted after an acute attack amongst coronary heart disease (CHD) patients in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC).The Medical Outcomes Short Form 36 (SF-36) comprised of 36 items used to measure quality of life which comprised of 4 domains of physical component summary were physical function, role physical, bodily pain, and general health and 4 domains of mental component summary were vitality, social function, emotional role, and mental health. A total of 108 respondents were recruited for this study. RESULTS: The findings showed that CHD. Respondents possessed good level of quality of life with total score of (59 ± 22). The total score of physical domain had mean and SD of 56 ± 24, while the total scores of the mental domain had mean and SD of 62 ± 27. There were significant differences between the general health components of quality of life with educational status of the CHD patients with (F= 5.433, p<0.05). There were significant differences in role physical components of quality of life with income (F= 3.144, p<0.05). CONCLUSION: The cardiac rehabilitation program would have deliberately improved their needs and conditions whilst hospitalization. These results have implications in which CHD patients should be evaluated with regard to their continuity of care.
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Coronary Disease , Quality of Life , Acute Disease , Adult , Cross-Sectional Studies , Female , Hospitals, Teaching , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Socioeconomic Factors , Young AdultABSTRACT
Ninety-five clinical strains of Gram-negative bacteria were examined for resistance to mercury, silver and disinfectants. 41% of the strains possessed resistance to mercury, 21% to silver and 7.3% of the strains were resistant to chlorhexidine. Mercury resistance was shown to be plasmid-mediated in 17 strains and silver resistance in 10 strains. Chlorhexidine resistance was not shown to be transferable.
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Disinfectants/pharmacology , Enterobacteriaceae/drug effects , Metals/pharmacology , Pseudomonas/drug effects , Chlorhexidine/pharmacology , Drug Resistance, Microbial , Mercury/pharmacology , R Factors , Silver/pharmacologyABSTRACT
Forty samples of Malaysian cooked foods were examined for the presence of antibiotic-resistant coliforms and R plasmids. Twenty seven (68%) of the foods had antibiotic-resistant coliforms and 5 (13%) had R plasmids. Nineteen samples (48%) had total bacterial counts over 10(6) per gm and in 5 samples, no coliforms were detected. Our findings show that cooked food may be one possible way by which R plasmids are spread. The control of the spread of R plasmids is discussed.
