Blue November Campaign as an annual male self-care strategy for healthy aging.

Men ignore self-care, displaying low frequency in health services. Aging increases the prevalence of LUTS and BPE, impacting the quality of life. The objective is to understand how the advancement of age can be determinant for men's health in Natal, Brazil. Then, 503 men aged between 43 and 83 attended the Blue November Campaign of 2015. All subjects were submitted to anamnesis, clinical and laboratorial evaluation including measuring their blood pressure, waist circumference, glucose, total cholesterol, HDL-C, LDL-C, triglycerides and BMI was calculated. In addition, IPSS, PSA, IIEF-5 and DRE data were collected. The mean IPSS presented an increase with age, 43-59 years (6.28 ± 6.02) and 70-80 years or more (8.65 ± 5.80). PSA dosages increase with aging (adult group 1.63 ± 2.70), being more accentuated in the older group (4.66 ± 5.70), while the mean IIFE-5 showed a decrease with aging in 43-59 years (21.79 ± 4.67) and an important decrease at 70-80 years or more (16.24 ± 6.71). The number of DRE > 30 g showed significant growth in the older group. All presented statistical significance (p < .05) and were associated with aging. The Blue November Campaign creates an annual self-care opportunity for aging men as their health is gradually affected.

Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome according to different criteria in the male population during the Blue November Campaign in Natal, RN, Northeastern Brazil.

BACKGROUND: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is an aggregation of risk factors associated with increased incidence of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and all-cause mortality. Information on MetS prevalence is scarce in the northeast region, Brazil. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of MetS according to different diagnostic criteria in a community sample of men during the November Blue Campaign living in the metropolitan area of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study on 500 men aged 40 years or older invited by the Blue November Campaign of 2015, an awareness program aimed at the prevention of male diseases. The evaluation included blood pressure, anthropometric measurements (weight, height, and waist circumference), fasting blood glucose, and blood lipid profile. The diagnosis of MetS was made according to the criteria of International Diabetes Federation (IDF)/American Heart Association (AHA)/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), IDF, and National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel III (NCEP-ATPIII). RESULTS: The prevalence was high by considering the following three criteria: IDF/AHA/NHLBI (66.8%), IDF (60.0%), and NCEP-ATPIII (46.4%). Concordance between diagnostic criteria measured by the kappa statistic (k) was excellent between IDF/AHA/NHLBI and IDF (k=0.85, P<0.0001) and moderate between IDF/AHA/NHLBI and NCEP-ATPIII (k=0.59) and IDF and NCEP-ATPIII (k=0.54). CONCLUSION: Prevalence of MetS in the male population was high using the three diagnostic criteria. IDF/AHA/NHLBI and IDF criteria have a high level of agreement, but NCEP-ATPIII criteria identify a lower number of MetS cases.

Comunicação de acidente de trabalho (CAT): um instrumento de análise da saúde do trabalhador / Notice of accident at work (CAT): a tool for analysis of health worker

Partindo de um levantamento bibliográfico, o presente trabalho permite uma reflexão sobre a Comunicação de Acidente do Trabalho (CAT), quanto à importância de sua notificação e seu correto preenchimento para o levantamento de dados estatísticos, que possibilitem a implantação de programas de prevenção à saúde do trabalhador.

Tolerância a antibióticos em cepas de Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae e Staphylococcus aureus isoladas de pacientes do Hospital Universitário Antônio Pedro - HUAP / Tolerance to antibiotics among strains of Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Staphylococcus aureus isolated from patients admitted into the Hospital Universitário Antônio Pedro - HUAP

A tolerância a antibióticos, medida através do critério: CMB/CMI > ou = 16, foi determinada em 157 cepas (Escherichia coli - 53, Klebsiella pneumoniae - 53 e Staphylococcus aureus - 51), isoladas de pacientes do HUAP, para os antibióticos amicacina (am), cefalotina (ce), cefoxitina (cx) e oxacilina (ox), de uso na antibioticoterapia do Hospital. Nenhuma tolerância foi verificada para os gram-negativos (E. coli e K. pneumoniae), enquanto para os isolados do gram-positivo (S. aureus), a tolerância foi encontrada e apresentou os seguintes percentuais: ox(21,6%, ce(11,8%), am(8,9%)e cx(2,0%)