Effect of multidrug solution for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis .

Objective: Evaluate the effect of a multidrug solution, adopted by a referral hospital for cancer to control and treat chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis in rats.

Methods: Oral mucositis (OM) was induced by 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU), and the animals were treated with saline (n = 8, G1), 0.12% chlorhexidine (n = 8, G2); and multidrug solution (n = 8, G3).

The correlation between anthropometric measurements and biochemical cardiovascular risk markers in the hypertensive elderly.

Objectives: This study was aimed at correlating anthropometric markers indicating additional cardiovascular risk in a hypertensive elderly population enrolled in the HIPERDIA programme in Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil, South America.

Methods: The sample consisted of 131 hypertensive elderly people aged60 to 92 (25.9 % males and 74.