Use of psychotropic drugs among workers on leave due to mental disorders.

Objective: To describe the use of psychotropic drugs among civil servants with registered absenteeism due to mental disorders, and to investigate associations with duration of leave of absence.

Methods: A cross-sectional study with civil servants on leave of absence due to mental disorders, between January and December 2017. Demographic, occupational and clinical variables were extracted from secondary data.

The amidase activity of human tissue kallikrein is significantly lower in the urine of patients with systolic heart failure.

Background: Heart failure (HF) is a clinical syndrome that activates several neurohumoral systems. There is little information on the participation of renal kallikrein-kinin system (KKS) in HF. Kallikreins are key enzymes in this system.