Guidelines on Gestational and Congenital Syphilis: insights of health professionals in Bolívar (Colombia).

Objectives: To describe the knowledge, appropriateness and practices regarding the evidence-based “Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) for the comprehensive management of gestational syphilis (GS) and congenital syphilis (CS)”.

Material And Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study including general practitioners, specialists and nurses working at 52 healthcare institutions in the Bolivar Department (Colombia) who provided prenatal control or neonatal care in 2020. Convenience sampling was used.

[Metabolic syndrome and concentrations of uric acid and ultrasensitive C-reactive protein].

Objective: To establish the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) according to ATP III and its correlation with the concentration of uric acid and C-reactive protein (CRP) in people aged between 45 and 60, living in the Getsemaní neighborhood of Cartagena.

Materials And Methods: Observational, descriptive-correlational study on a population of 802 inhabitants of the Getsemaní neighborhood of Cartagena, Colombia. A random sample of 302 inhabitants was analyzed with a 95% confidence interval and 5% margin of error.