Prediction of metabolic syndrome and its associated risk factors in patients with chronic kidney disease using machine learning techniques.

Introduction: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and metabolic syndrome (MS) are recognized as public health problems which are related to overweight and cardiometabolic factors. The aim of this study was to develop a model to predict MS in people with CKD.

Methods: This was a prospective cross-sectional study of patients from a reference center in São Luís, MA, Brazil.

Population-based seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 and the herd immunity threshold in Maranhão.

Objective: To estimate the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in the state of Maranhão, Brazil.

Methods: A population-based household survey was performed, from July 27, 2020 to August 8, 2020. The estimates considered clustering, stratification and non-response.

Evaluation of the use of raw extract of Euphorbia tirucalli L. in the healing process of skin wounds in mice.

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of crude extract of Euphorbia tirucalli in cutaneous wound healing.

Methods: A total of 20 Swiss mice were randomly divided into two groups, aveloz (GA) and control (CG), and each group was further divided into two subgroups based on the deaths scheduled for the 7th and 14th days after surgery. The animals underwent a resection of cutaneous fragment with 1cm in diameter on the dorsum; the GA was applied in each animal on the subsequent days, 0.

An analysis of the spatiotemporal distribution of American cutaneous leishmaniasis in counties located along road and railway corridors in the State of Maranhão, Brazil.

Introduction: The incidence of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is increasing in Latin America, especially in Brazil, where 256,587 cases were confirmed in the last decade.

Methods: This study used a Bayesian model to examine the spatial and temporal distribution of ACL cases between 2000 and 2009 in 61 counties of State of Maranhão located along the three main road and railway corridors.

Results: During the study period, 13,818 cases of ACL were recorded.

Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi (Anacardiaceae) in the healing process of gastrorraphy in rats.

Background: Gastrorraphy, isolated or associated with the use of biological adhesives, was throughout the history of surgery the usual way to promote healing in gastric lesions and the use of herbal medicine has been increasingly more employed.

Aim: To evaluate the wound healing in the stomach of rats with the use of the hydroalcoholic extract of Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi (aroeira).

Methods: Sixty rats, adult males, were divided into two groups: aroeira group and control group.