[Prescribing habits of physical activity by cardiac physicians in Côte d'Ivoire].

Regular physical activity (PA) has multiple health benefits that contribute to the prevention and management of many non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease. However, a large proportion of the world's population is not active enough to benefit its health. Despite the potential of physicians to increase the level of PA practice in both primary and secondary prevention, there appears to be little intervention in this direction during medical consultations.

[Characteristics of chronic renal failure in black adult patients hospitalized in the Internal Medicine department of Treichville University Hospital].

Objective: To describe the epidemiological, clinical, biological aspects, treatment and outcome of chronic renal failure.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on medical data of 301 inpatients with chronic renal failure from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2008 in the internal medicine department of Treichville university hospital.

Results: The hospital prevalence of chronic renal failure was 7.

[Current aspects of neuromeningeal cryptococcosis in adults infected with HIV in the internal medicine service of the University Hospital of Treichville Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire)].

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of neuromeningeal cryptococcosis (NMC) and reporting sociodemographic, clinical, paraclinical aspects and outcome of patients.

Methods: It was a retrospective study concerning 22 HIV positive patients hospitalized between 2006 to and 2009 in the internal medicine service of University Hospital of Treichville for NMC.

Results: The prevalence of NMC in patients infected with HIV was 0.