In Riau Province, hypertension was the most common of non-infectious health problem. The prevalence of hypertension based on data from Health Office of Riau Province in 2017 was 15.93%, Pekanbaru City with prevalence of 14.88% ranked 2 after Dumai City. Tenayan Raya Pekanbaru became the Primary Health Care (PHC) with the highest prevalence of hypertension in Pekanbaru City 10.76%. Uncontro…
Assessment as Learning (AaL) is a form of assessment that emphasizes the development of students' metacognition. Modern learning theory has put AaL as the main focus of the assessment implementation, so it is important to develop the implementation of the assessment by making AaL implementation portion bigger than other assessments. One of the applicable forms of AaL is an self-test made by…
Corneal astigmatism is an irregularly shaped cornea that prevents light from focusing properly on the retina and caused the eye unable to focus light rays to a single focus point. Corneal astigmatism in cataract patients can cause poor visions after cataract surgery. Patients could have optimum visions without glasses by toric IOL implants during cataract surgery. This study aimed to find t…
House dust mites (HDM) are species of mites that very small and caused allergic reaction. Survey by Riau Province Health Office at SDN 001 Buluh Cina at Kampar regency in 2014 found that high proportion of HDR were 40,3%. The objective of this study were to find out the description of Clean and Healthy Lifestyle (CAHL) knowledge and attitude of student of SDN 001 Buluh Cina, Kampar Regency…
Pleural effusion is a condition that often occurs in medical practice caused by various underlying diseases. This condition is characterized by an abnormal build-up of pleural fluid. The accumulation of pleural fluid can consists from transudate, exudate, clear fluid or blood. The aim of this study was to obtain profiles of pleural effusion patients that hospitalized at Arifin Achmad Region…
Dental caries is a disease on the hard tissue of the teeth that characterized by a process of demineralization. High salivary glucose in Diabetes Mellitus (DM) will increase the incidence of caries. Dental caries occurs due to many factors, one of them is microorganisms. The most of common microorganisms that cause dental karies are Streptococcus mutans (S. Mutans). Objective: This study a…
Lung cancer is a malignant disease that attacks the lung that originates from the lung itself or often referred as a primary lung cancer. Primary lung cancer is a type of tumor that is malignant and originates from the bronchial epithelium (bronchogenic carcinoma). Stage IV lung cancer mostly suffered by men and elderly patients and also metastasized. This study aimed to see the number of …
Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a disease with high incidence rate in Indonesia, which is caused by the dengue virus and is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Riau is one of the provinces in Indonesia where the number of dengue cases tends to increase every year. Based on data from the health department Pekanbaru, Sukajadi District is an endemic area. This study was a descriptive…
Prostate adenocarcinoma is one of the most common forms of prostate malignancy in men worldwide. This study aims to see whether MRI can determine spine metastases in prostate adenocarcinoma at Arifin Achmad Hospital, Riau Province for the period 2017-2020. This type of research is descriptive using secondary data derived from radiological medical records and anatomical pathology. The result…
Adrenal carcinoma is a rare epithelial malignancy of the adrenals that can occur in the adrenal cortex and adrenal medulla. Adrenal carcinoma can include functional adrenal carcinoma and non-functional carcinoma. Clinical symptoms that arise can include hypertension, palpable mass, and low back pain. The purpose of this study was to determine the description of adrenal carcinoma at Arifin …
Bladder carcinoma is the eleventh highest number of malignancies globally, and 90% of them are bladder cancer types of transitional cell carcinoma.. They are making bladder carcinoma diagnoses based on physical examination and supporting examinations in laboratory and radiology. The purpose of this study was to determine the description of the management of transitional carcinoma in muscle…
Psychotropics are drugs that can affect behavioral, thought and emotional functions and are widely used in psychiatry. Psychotropic drugs are potentially dangerous and can have serious and sometimes fatal consequences for patients of all ages. This is even more evident for high-risk populations such as the elderly. Careful assessment and monitoring of the use of psychotropic drugs that are …
Hounsfield unit is software included on a CT-Scan that can assess various types of networks' density levels. It has 4,096 gray colors and has different density levels. The Hounsfield Unit can assess the density of stones, air, bone, fat, lung, and soft tissue. The purpose of this study was to determine the results of the Hounsfield measurement of kidney stone units in determining the densi…
Pulmonary mycosis is a disease characterized by increased pulmonary sensitivity due to infection and fungal colonization. The cause of increased growth of the pulmonary fungus is often associated with the consumption of drugs such as corticosteroids, antibiotics, and immunosuppressive drugs such as cytostatics. The high human mobilization causes the incidence of pulmonary mycosis to increas…
Nephrolitiasis (kidney stones) is a condition where stones are found in the pelvis or renal calyx. The treatment of urinary tract stones can be performed minimally invasive using Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). PCNL is a kidney stone treatment procedure that is considered relatively safe, effective, cheap, comfortable and has low morbidity when compared to open surgery. In the beginni…
Blunt violence is a type of violence that comes from objects that have blunt/hard/rough ( such as stone, wood, hammer, fist, and nails) surface hit the body tissues resulting in wounds, injuries, and trauma. Type of wounds caused by blunt violence are abrasions, bruises and tearing. This study aims to find out the profile of injury case due to blunt violence examined at Bhayangkara Pekanbar…
Domestic violence is an action of someone done mostly to women that caused physical, psychological, and sexual suffering or misery. It can also in the form of domestic neglect and including threats of coercion and independence deprivation against the law of the household environment by PKDRT Law No. 23 of 2004 Article 1. The descriptive retrospective method was used as the research design t…
Colorectal masses can be non-neoplasm, benign neoplasm, and malignant neoplasm. Diagnosis of colorectal mass can be done by examining a biopsy followed by a histopathological examination. The aim of thus study was to described the histopathology feature of colorectal mass biopsy in the Anatomic Pathology Laboratory of Arifin Achmad Regional Hospital in Riau Province January 2015 - December…
Sexual violence is all types of coercion and threats of any sexual act that is undesirable by a person as a victim. The words 'threat" and "coercion" become the core of sexual violence. The word "threat" refers to verbal while "coercion" refers to action. The goal of this research is to find out the profile of sexual violence cases examined at Bhayangkara Hospital Pekanbaru Riau period of …
Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory process that mainly affects the medium sized arteries. Fatty liver is associated with atherosclerosis, although the mechanism is not clearly known. One of these conditions is based on increased levels of oxidative stress and inflammation. Proteasom is a complex enzyme that plays a vital role in the inflammatory of atherosclerosis. The purpose of this study…