Reproductive health influences and in turn is affected by various health aspects, namely nutrition, health status during infancy, childhood, teenage years, life style, and environment. Nutritional disorder that effect the male reproductive system is discussed in the paper. Abdominal obesity may cause benign prostate hyperplasia, malnutrition can effect the size of the seminiferous tubles and th…
With the increased interest in promoting health of the children, the information of the size of the promblem in traffic accident is important. This study is carried out descriptively to achieve the objective mentioned above, from 1987-1994 especially in the last 5 years (1990-1994). By using secondary data from many sources, beside the population of Indonesia every year with the annual growth r…
The study was conducted to know the pattern of infectious disease in hospitalized children and to know how far the hospital data reflects the pattern of disease in the community. The study was carried out descriptively. Data was collected from the medical record of hospitalized patients in the Department of child Health from 1981 until 1994. The study showed that the proportion of the infectiou…
A collodion baby born in Langsa General Hospital was reported and later was hospitalized in the Subderparment of Perinatology, Langsa General Hospital, East Aceh. The baby was a girl, one day of age, without any history of genetic diseases in the family. The collodion membrance covered her entire body. The disease is a rare congenital ichthysiform dermatoses inherited usually apparent at birth.…
Acute pericarditis is an acute inflammation of visceral, pariental or both. Acute pericarditis can be brought about by pyogenic bacteria. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, virus and fungi. Acute pericarditis can cause pericardial effusion and cardiac tanponade. Pericarditis and Pericardial effusion rarely usually bring about pericarditis is rheumatic fever or tuberculosis, or pyogenic bacteria. The t…
With the increase of life expectancy for Indonesian women, along with the improved status of women in social life, it is expected that women's participation will increase correspondingly in the national development, even after menopouse. The endeavors in the field of health are directed to ensure that post-menopausal women will remain productive and enjoy a life of quality. With this objective …
To compare the effects of cilazapri and atenolol on lowering blood pressure and side effects in patients with hypertension, a theree months randomized double blind trial has been done with a total of 80 patients. The results showed that cilazapril with the dose of 2.5 to 5 to 5 mg daily has been proven as equally effective as 50-100 mg atenolol daily. Cilazapril has no effect on glucose and lip…
A relationship between nutrion and rheumatic disease could occur through two possible mechanism. First, food antigen might provoke hypersensitivity responses leading to such symptoms. Second, nutritional factors might alter immune or inflammatory response or both, thus modifying rheumatic symptoms. Rhemuatic diseases which have relationship with food allergy were palindromic rheumatism, rheumat…