Introduction: the diabetic foot assumed as a problem of health, however in the Service of Angiología and Vascular Surgery of the Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neo is it ignored which the characteristics of the patients are with this problem. Objective: to characterize the patients with diagnostic of foot diabetic assisted in this service during the 2016. Method: was carried out an observational, descriptive, and traverse study. All the patients were studied with foot diabetic (n=205). Results: the diabetic foot was more frequent in women, between the 61 and 70 years of age, with diabetes type 2 and more than 16 years of evolution of the illness. It was more common the neuro-infectious clinical form and it was high the percentage of patients amputated by this cause. Two patients died. Conclusions: The diabetic foot was more frequent in women with age between 61 and 70 years, it was more common the neuro-infectious clinical form and those they were carried out smaller amputations. The lethality in the patients with foot diabetic was low.

A longitudinal, descriptive, retrospective study was carried out in the Ophthalmological “Amistad Hospital Algeria-Cuba”, El Oued, Algeria, in the period from June 2015 to May 2017, with the aim of characterizing the surgical behavior in patients with strabismus attended in said hospital. The universe consisted of 80 patients surgically treated, coinciding with the sample. The variables studied were: age, sex, preoperative diagnosis, preoperative prismatic diopters, surgical procedure, operated eye and transoperative ocular complications. Of the 139 surgeries performed / operated eyes, 52.5 % of the patients corresponded to the female sex. 38.8 % of the cases presented comitant acquired esotropia. The most performed surgical procedure was the recession of both horizontal rectums, in 84.9 %, bilateral surgery prevailing over the unilateral one.

A retrospective descriptive study was conducted in the from November 2016 to August 2017, in order to determine the main risk factors that cause the cerebrovascular diseases in the Basic Health Unit of Pedras municipality Matões do Norte Maranhão, Brazil. The studied universe was 218 patients aged 50 years and over. The source of data collection was a tab designed by the author through the review of individual and family medical records. The variables were studied: age, sex, race, family history of CVD, modifiable risk factors and the association of risk factors. The age group from 70 to 79 years and the male sex, as well as miscegenation in patients, the main modifiable risk factors were arterial hypertension and smoking, 40.3 % presented 3 or more risk factors. Conclusions and recommendations are issued.

A prospective, analytical and cross-sectional study was conducted with the objective of identifying the presence of the human papillomavirus in women of childbearing age whom were attended at the health center No. 1 of Azogues, Ecuador, from January 2015 to February 2016. The sample was formed for the 117 women who underwent the Papanicolaou test for subsequent genotyping of the virus. The number of sexual partners, condom use, place of residence and level of education were determined. There were more women with a positive Pap test than positive HPV. The PCR technique constitutes a benefit for the Ecuadorian population.