Background: The available studies have not fully analyzed the several factors involved in the genesis of hypertension (HT), especially the association among blood pressure, urinary sodium excretion and renal dysfunction.
Health care professionals show greater prevalence of hepatitis C than administrative workers and blood donation candidates. Among those with positive serology, occupational and non-occupational factors of greatest risk were age, time in the job, and blood transfusion.
ObjectiveThe decrease in mortality due to cardiovascular diseases (CVD)
Methods
The assessment of changes in total cholesterol (TC), levels of blood pressure (BP), body mass index (BMI) and smoking was carried out, besides the occurrence of fatal (F) and non-fatal (NF) cardiovascular events, under dietary and behavioral intervention and long-term follow-up (up to 20 years) in a closed
ConclusionThose results prove that initiatives directed towards the prevention must be priorities, aiming at modifying the morbimortatility rates of CVD.
Este artigo de revisão discute aspectos da hepatite C em profissionais da saúde e seu risco de exposição e infecção. Foram abordados temas como associação entre patógenos veiculados ao sangue e profissionais da saúde, hepatite C (epidemiologia, diagnóstico e prevenção), comunicação e registro de acidentes do trabalho com material biológico (sangue e fluidos corpóreos), e relação entre extensão e conseqüências dos acidentes com objetos perfurocortantes e exposição mucocutânea e a hepatite C.
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