[Predictive model for community acquired bacteremia in patients from an Internal Medicine Unit].

Background And Objective: Clinical suspicion of bacteremia lacks of sensitivity, specificity or predictive values enough to be clinically useful. The aim of this study was to develop a clinical prediction rule of bacteremia for patients hospitalized in an internal medicine department, with community-acquired symptoms, who had blood cultures obtained.

Patients And Method: A prospective study, including all patients who had blood cultures in the first 48 h after admission, was performed.

[Nutrition, bone disease and alcoholic cirrhosis].

Objectives: To know the prevalence of osteopenia and osteoporosis in alcoholic cirrhotic males from 45 to 65 years old. To prove if the nutritional state is involved in the loss of bone mass in the hepatic disease.

Study Population: 52 alcoholic cirrhotic males from 45 to 65 years old, with normal kidney function, non-sedentary and with no treatment that could alterate the study.