Quality of life in children living with chronic kidney disease

Introducción: la enfermedad renal en los niños causa diferentes cambios que pueden alterar su calidad de vida; por esta razón, es importante que el profesional de salud busque estrategias que contribuyan a disminuir las secuelas y mejorar la calidad de vida del niño. Objetivo: caracterizar la calidad de vida de los niños de 8 a 18 años, con diagnóstico de enfermedad renal crónica, según el instrumento KIDSCREEN-27 de una institución de salud de la ciudad de Bogotá (Colombia). Método: estudio descriptivo de corte transversal con una población de estudio de 62 niños con diagnóstico de enfermedad renal crónica con edades entre 8 y 18 años que asistieron a la consulta de nefrología pediátrica. Resultados: se analizaron cinco dimensiones, donde cada una tuvo un puntaje ponderado mayor a 70, que se relaciona con una buena calidad de vida; la dimensión con menor puntaje, la de actividad física, tuvo un puntaje de 70,1, y la dimensión de estado de ánimo y sentimientos obtuvo el mayor puntaje, 80,8. Conclusiones: la enfermedad renal crónica puede alterar la calidad de vida, sobre todo en la dimensión de actividad física y entorno escolar. Es primordial que se planteen programas que tengan en cuenta las cinco dimensiones, especialmente las que obtuvieron menor puntaje, con el fin de mejorar la calidad de vida de los niños con esta enfermedad.Paciente infantilIntroduction: In children the kidney disease causes different changes that may affect their quality of life. Therefore, it is important for a health professional to find a strategy contributing to reduce the sequelae and improve their quality of life. Objective: To characterize the quality of life in children with ages of 8-18 years who were diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, based on the instrument KIDSCREEN-27 prepared by health center in Bogotá (Colombia). Method: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study with a study population of 62 children diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, with ages from 8 to 18 years, who attended to pediatric nephrology treatment. Results: Five dimensions were analyzed, each with a weighted score above 70, which indicates a good quality of life. The dimensions with the lowest score [70.1] is the physical activity. The highest score [80.8] was found in the dimension of mood and feelings. Conclusions: The chronic kidney disease may alter the quality of life, mostly regarding the dimension of physical activity and the school environment. It is crucial to set out programs that consider the five dimensions, especially those with the lowest scores, in order to improve the quality of life among the ill children.http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6316-0122http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9795-6866Revista Nacional - Indexad

Situación de salud de los niños y niñas escolares de las instituciones educativas distritales de la localidad de Usaquén que están viviendo migración parental internacional, Bogotá (Colombia), julio - diciembre 2009

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Interface entre percepção da qualidade de vida, apetite e satisfação com sono em universitários da área da saúde.

A percepção da qualidade de vida é importante para a promoção da saúde, sendo influenciada por aspectos bio-psicofuncionais e ambientais. O ciclo sono-vigília é um sistema comportamental complexo, tem papel relevante na manutenção da saúde e qualidade de vida. O sono tem múltiplas funções cerebrais, que, quando alteradas, podem desencadear mudanças no comportamento alimentar, incluindo saciedade e apetite. Diversos fatores modificam a qualidade de vida acadêmica, iniciativas, ações ou rotinas que impactam o padrão de sono e, consequentemente, os hábitos alimentares, estão entre os mais preocupantes. Objetivo: descrever o perfil da qualidade de vida em relação a satisfação com o sono e apetite relatados por universitários da área de saúde. Método. Trata-se de estudo transversal, realizado por meio de questionários, com uma amostra de universitários de uma Instituição de Ensino Superior da área de saúde. A variável de desfecho foi a percepção da qualidade de vida acadêmica em relação a satisfação com o sono e do apetite. Esta pesquisa obteve aprovação do Comitê de Ética do IMS/UFBA sob parecer nº 2.852.559, CAAE: 93456518.3.0000.5556. Resultados: Foram 239 universitários, sendo 158 (66.1%) mulheres, média de idade 22±3.53 anos. A razão entre qualidade de vida e insatisfação com o sono foi significante e positiva (p<0.048) cujo odds ratio foi de 1.831 (IC:1002-3346). A prevalência da insatisfação com o sono e apetite obteve significância de (p<0.03), sem predileção por idade ou sexo. Conclusão: estes resultados, pressupõem que, mesmo em uma população considerada saudável, a percepção da qualidade de vida, é uma variável importante para identificar possíveis fatores que possam prejudicar a integridade física ou mental de universitários. A insatisfação com o sono e irregularidade no apetite, podem afetar a percepção da qualidade de vida de forma negativa. O impacto das mudanças comportamentais adquiridas ao longo da vida acadêmica podem ser responsáveis por esta alteração

Caracterización de las comorbilidades y complicaciones clínicas en un grupo de pacientes sometidos a hemodiálisis en una institución de referencia de Medellín, Colombia.

Aim: To characterize the clinical complications and comorbidities presented by patients undergoing hemodialysis in Medellín - Colombia. Materials and methods: Retrospective descriptive observational study, which included hemodialysis patients > 18 years of age who presented some complication associated with the treatment. Non-probabilistic sampling of consecutive cases was carried out. The information was collected from medical records. The analysis was carried out through the IBM SPSS Version 25 program, absolute and relative frequencies were estimated, as well as medians with interquartile ranges. This work had ethical approval. Results: 20 patients were included, of which 60% (12) were male, the median age was 68.5 years and 60% (12) belonged to the subsidized regime. The main pathological antecedents were hypertension in 100% (20), followed by diabetes mellitus in 45% (9). Regarding the replacement therapy time, the median was 25.5 months (Q1: 18.5; Q3: 66). The main associated complications were venous coagulation in 44,4% (12) followed by bleeding in 37% (10) and suspicion of infection in 11.1% (3), most of the bleeding was light. due to decannulation. Conclusion: Renal replacement therapy in general did not represent a high risk of life-threatening complications in patients who underwent it, since most of these adverse effects were considered mild, did not negatively modify quality of life and were easily corrected, similar to that reported in the literature.Objetivo: Caracterizar las complicaciones clínicas y comorbilidades que presentan los pacientes sometidos a hemodiálisis en Medellín – Colombia. Materiales y métodos: Estudio observacional descriptivo retrospectivo, que incluyó pacientes en hemodiálisis > 18 años que presentaron alguna complicación asociada al tratamiento. Se realizó muestreo no probabilístico de casos consecutivos. La información se recolectó a partir de historias clínicas. El análisis se llevó a cabo a través del programa IBM SPSS Versión 25, se estimaron frecuencias absolutas y relativas, así como medianas con los rangos intercuartílicos. Este trabajo contó con aprobación ética. Resultados: Se incluyeron 20 pacientes de los cuales el 60% (12) era de sexo masculino, la mediana de edad fue de 68,5 años y el 60% (12) pertenecía al régimen subsidiado. Los principales antecedentes patológicos fueron hipertensión arterial en el 100% (20), seguido de diabetes mellitus con un 45% (9). Respecto al tiempo de terapia de reemplazo, la mediana fue de 25,5 meses (Q1: 18,5; Q3: 66). Las principales complicaciones asociadas fueron coagulación de la vía venosa en el 44,4% (12) seguido de sangrado en el 37% (10) y sospecha de infección en el 11,1% (3), los sangrados en su mayoría fueron leves debido a decanulación. Conclusión: La terapia de reemplazo renal en general no representó un riesgo elevado de complicaciones que amenacen la vida de los pacientes que se sometieron a ella, puesto que la mayoría de esos efectos adversos se consideraron leves, no modificaron negativamente la calidad de vida y fueron de fácil corrección, similar a lo reportado en la literatura

Measurement of the cross-section and charge asymmetry of WW bosons produced in proton-proton collisions at s=8\sqrt{s}=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

This paper presents measurements of the $W^+ \rightarrow \mu^+\nu$ and $W^- \rightarrow \mu^-\nu$ cross-sections and the associated charge asymmetry as a function of the absolute pseudorapidity of the decay muon. The data were collected in proton--proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC and correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 20.2~\mbox{fb^{-1}}. The precision of the cross-section measurements varies between 0.8% to 1.5% as a function of the pseudorapidity, excluding the 1.9% uncertainty on the integrated luminosity. The charge asymmetry is measured with an uncertainty between 0.002 and 0.003. The results are compared with predictions based on next-to-next-to-leading-order calculations with various parton distribution functions and have the sensitivity to discriminate between them.Comment: 38 pages in total, author list starting page 22, 5 figures, 4 tables, submitted to EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2017-13

Measurement of χ c1 and χ c2 production with s√ = 7 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS

The prompt and non-prompt production cross-sections for the χ c1 and χ c2 charmonium states are measured in pp collisions at s√ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC using 4.5 fb−1 of integrated luminosity. The χ c states are reconstructed through the radiative decay χ c → J/ψγ (with J/ψ → μ + μ −) where photons are reconstructed from γ → e + e − conversions. The production rate of the χ c2 state relative to the χ c1 state is measured for prompt and non-prompt χ c as a function of J/ψ transverse momentum. The prompt χ c cross-sections are combined with existing measurements of prompt J/ψ production to derive the fraction of prompt J/ψ produced in feed-down from χ c decays. The fractions of χ c1 and χ c2 produced in b-hadron decays are also measured

Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √ s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Results of a search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum are reported. The search uses 20.3 fb−1 of √ s = 8 TeV data collected in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are required to have at least one jet with pT > 120 GeV and no leptons. Nine signal regions are considered with increasing missing transverse momentum requirements between Emiss T > 150 GeV and Emiss T > 700 GeV. Good agreement is observed between the number of events in data and Standard Model expectations. The results are translated into exclusion limits on models with either large extra spatial dimensions, pair production of weakly interacting dark matter candidates, or production of very light gravitinos in a gauge-mediated supersymmetric model. In addition, limits on the production of an invisibly decaying Higgs-like boson leading to similar topologies in the final state are presente

Search for chargino-neutralino production with mass splittings near the electroweak scale in three-lepton final states in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for supersymmetry through the pair production of electroweakinos with mass splittings near the electroweak scale and decaying via on-shell W and Z bosons is presented for a three-lepton final state. The analyzed proton-proton collision data taken at a center-of-mass energy of √s=13  TeV were collected between 2015 and 2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139  fb−1. A search, emulating the recursive jigsaw reconstruction technique with easily reproducible laboratory-frame variables, is performed. The two excesses observed in the 2015–2016 data recursive jigsaw analysis in the low-mass three-lepton phase space are reproduced. Results with the full data set are in agreement with the Standard Model expectations. They are interpreted to set exclusion limits at the 95% confidence level on simplified models of chargino-neutralino pair production for masses up to 345 GeV