Abstract OBJECTIVE Estimating the incidence rate of pressure ulcers and verifying factors associated with this occurrence in a cohort of hospitalized patients. METHOD This is a cohort study in which the considered outcome was the time until pressure ulcer occurrence. Estimated effect of the variables o...
Objetivou-se estimar a incidência global e em casos índices de hanseníase e traçar o perfil sócio demográfico em menores de 15 anos no município de Imperatriz, Maranhão. Realizou-se um estudo longitudinal retrospectivo dos casos de hanseníase no município, utilizando-se dados obtidos das notif...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE Quantify, for both genders, the correlation between the depression incidence rate and the unemployment rate in Portugal between 1995 and 2013. METHODS An ecological study was developed to correlate the evolution of the depression incidence rates estimated by the General Practitione...
Resumen Introducción: La infección respiratoria aguda baja (IRAB) es uno de los principales problemas de salud pública en menores de 5 años en países en desarrollo. El objetivo de este estudio fue describir la incidencia, mortalidad y factores pronósticos en pacientes menores de 5 años con diagn...
Case-control studies show an association between residential radon and lung cancer. The aim of this paper is to investigate this association through a cohort study. We designed an ambispective cohort study using the Galician radon map, Spain, with controls drawn from a previous case-control study. Subjec...
Resumo: Objetivou-se a identificação de fatores preditores de dor em idosos. Trata-se de um estudo longitudinal de base populacional, realizado por meio de entrevista domiciliar com idosos residentes no Município de São Paulo, Brasil, participantes do Estudo SABE, nos anos de 2006 e de 2010. A análi...
Abstract Objectives To assess the incidence of tuberculosis and to screen for latent tuberculosis infection among Brazilians with rheumatoid arthritis using biologics in clinical practice. Patients and methods This cohort study used data from the Brazilian Registry of Biological Therapies in Rheumatic ...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To identify the historical trend of leprosy epidemiological indicators in individuals under the age of 15 in the state of Mato Grosso. METHODS Descriptive study with trend analysis of leprosy indicators in individuals under the age of fifteen registered in the Mato Grosso’s S...