The objective of this study was to quantify the heavy metals (Pb, As, Cd, Hg) in the leaves of Tessaria Integrifolia from the district of Moche-Trujillo-Libertad. The leaves of the species under study were collected on the banks of the Moche River in the city of Trujillo during the month of May 2017 and later it was identified in the herbarium Truxillenses (HUT) of the National University of Trujillo. The dried leaves were milled, sieved and stored in amber jars for the corresponding study. The samples were processed by acid digestion and subsequently read in the atomic absorption spectrophotometer. In the study of the quantification of heavy metals in the sheet of Integrifolia the concentrations of each metal were expressed in mg / kg, both dry weight and fresh weight, which allowed us to compare these values with the references given in different bibliographies ( WHO, European Pharmaco...

The objective of this study was to determine the degree of adherence to the antidepressant treatment of mental health outpatients at the Edgardo Rebagliati Martins National Hospital, September-December, 2016. The sample consisted of 50 patients, older than 18 years old, with major antidepressant treatment. or equal to 1 month that she attended the outpatient clinic for depression control or any consultation associated with her, the data of interest was collected through the Morisky-Green-Levine test. The processing and analysis of data was done through the program using Microsoft Excel software. Fifty valid surveys were obtained, of these 34 patients presented low adherence representing 68%, 10 patients presented average adherence giving 20% and 6 patients presented high adherence representing 12% of the total sample. It is concluded that the degree of adherence to antidepressant treatme...