Semakin meningkatnya kejadian PTM, maka perlu adanya edukasi dan pendampingan kepada masyarakat untuk melaksanakan deteksi dini atau skrining terhadap PTM, terutama pada kelompok yang berisiko. Sasaran pada kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini adalah masyarakat yang beresiko dan usia lanjut sebanyak 150 orang di Kabupaten Demak, Kecamatan Gubug Kabupaten Grobogan, dan Kecamatan Pudak Payung. evaluasi dilakukan dengan memberikan kuesioner tentang tingkat pengetahuan dan pemantauan hasil laboratorium, dan tekanan darah. Evaluasi akan diukur dari tingkat pengetahuan sebelum dan sesudah diberikan pendidikan kesehatan. Peningkatan PTM dapat ditekan melalui pengendalian factor risiko yaitu pengurangan konsumsi rokok, alkohol, gula dan garam, peningkatan konsumsi buah dan sayur, meningkatkan aktifitas fisik melalui olah raga, mencegah kegemukan, pengendalian stress dengan kegiatan rekreasi serta melakukan pemeriksaan tekanan darah, kadar gula darah secara teratur. Upaya pencegahan PTM dapat dilakukan oleh masyarakat secara mandiri melalui kegiatan Posbindu.
Keadaan anemia pada lansia dapat meningkatkan risiko disabilitas sebesar dua kali lebih tinggi dibandingkan dengan lansia tanpa anemia. Peningkatan disabilitas mengakibatkan penurunan kemampuan hidup mandiri pada lansia. Kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat ini diharapkan dapat memberikan informasi dan gambaran status anemia pada lansia di Asrama TNI-AD Mrican. Informasi dan gambaran tersebut dapat dimanfaatkan sebagai landasan layanan kesehatan seperti penyuluhan, monitoring dan pengobatan sehingga pembangunan bidang kesehatan dapat segera tercapai. Tujuan akhir dari kegiatan pengabmas ini adalah memberikan analisa terhadap hasil pemeriksaan hemoglobin dan hematokrit sebagai screening anemia pada Lansia di Asrama TNI-AD Mrican Semarang. Kegiatan dilaksanakan dalam bentuk pemeriksaan kadar hemaglobin dan hematokrit darah serta pemberian konsultasi hasil pemeriksaan darah tersebut. Kadar Haemoglobin peserta berkisar 9,4-15,9 g/dL dengan rata-rata 13,0 ± 1,4 g/dL. Kadar Haemotokrit peserta berkisar 28-47 % dengan rata-rata 39 ± 5%. Prosentase anemia pada peserta sebesar 31.1% dengan kategori Anemia Sedang (3.2%) dan Anemia Ringan (27.9%).
Clearing results in histological processing can be affected due to tissue density and viscosity of the clearing agent. xylene is the most commonly used aromatic solvent for clearing agents and deparaffinizing agents in histopathology laboratories, but xylene is one of the most dangerous chemicals found in histology laboratories. Based on the dangers posed by xylene, a replacement material is needed. Several xylene substitutes such as reagents derived from limonene, aliphatic hydrocarbons, vegetable oils and mineral oils have been commercially developed, but the available xylene substitutes are still less effective, more expensive, and still as dangerous as xylene itself. Substitutes that are considered safer are from natural oils, one of which is olive oil which has similarities with xylene, namely in hydrocarbon and phenol compounds. This study used two types of tissue, namely skin and liver from mice (Mus musculus) which were cut into two parts; the first part uses xylene as and the other part uses olive oil as a clearing agent. The assessment of hematoxylin eosin staining results were determined based on the category of assessment of cell structure, such as the cell nucleus, cytoplasm, and color uniformity carried out by three readers and five fields of view for each microscopic slide at 40X magnification of the objective lens. Comparison of observations of the xylene group in skin and liver tissue 100% got a good score on the cell nucleus, cytoplasm, and color uniformity. (p=1,000). The olive oil group had a slight difference in color uniformity in liver tissue when compared to skin, but not statistically different (p=0.773). The comparison of the overall readings of the xylene and olive oil groups on skin and liver tissue also showed no statistically different (p=0.262). So it can be concluded that olive oil can be recommended as a substitute for xylene in the clearing process in histological tissue processing.
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