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Social inequalities in the incidence, mortality, and survival of neoplasms in women from a municipality in Southeastern Brazil

This study aims to analyze inequalities in the incidence, mortality, and survival of the main types of cancer in women according to the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI). The study was conducted in Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil, from 2010 to 2014, and used data from the Population-based Cancer Regist...

Análisis de la tendencia de la obesidad general en Ecuador en los años 2014 a 2016

Int. j. morphol; 40 (5), 2022
RESUMEN: La obesidad es un problema de salud pública, mundial. Considerada una enfermedad sistémica, multiorgánica, metabólica e inflamatoria crónica, ocasionada por el exceso de tejido celular subcutáneo, con un mayor riesgo de morbilidad y mortalidad por ciclos vitales, en todas las edades. Deter...

Risk Factors for the Incidence of Dental Caries in Low, Very Low, and Extremely Low Birth Weight Children: A Cohort Study

Abstract Objective: To assess the incidence of caries in a two-year period among low birth weight (LBW), very low birth weight (VLBW), and extremely low birth weight (ELBW) children considering socioeconomic indicators, dietary factors and oral hygiene. Material and Methods: A convenience sample was fo...

The relationship between age-related incidences of heel spur with sex and side

Int. j. morphol; 40 (2), 2022
SUMMARY: Heel spur is an osteophytic protrusion larger than 2 mm that lies just anterior to the tuberosity of the calcaneus. Heel spur can be of two types: plantar heel spur and dorsal heel spur. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the heel spurs incidence with age, sex and sid...

Recent HIV infections: evaluation of a simple identification score for newly diagnosed patients

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE Recognize incident infection to better characterize the groups that fuel HIV epidemic. We propose a simple score to identify recent infections among newly diagnosed patients as a HIV surveillance tool. METHODS Newly diagnosed patients were defined as recent infections when a negati...

ELSA-Brasil: a 4-year incidence of hearing loss in adults with and without hypertension

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence of hearing loss among adults stratified by the occurrence of hypertension, and to investigate the association between hypertension and hearing loss. METHODS Longitudinal observational study, part of the Estudo Longitudinal da Saúde do Adulto (ELSA-Brasil, ...

Análise espacial da mortalidade fetal por sífilis congênita no Município do Recife-PE-Brasil entre 2007 e 2016

Resumo Objetivo analisar a distribuição espacial da mortalidade fetal por sífilis congênita entre os bairros do Município do Recife-PE. Método estudo ecológico, realizado a partir do indicador epidemiológico taxa de mortalidade fetal por sífilis congênita, agregado ao nível dos bairros, em d...

Incidence of Medication Errors in King Fahad Hospital Madina Saudi Arabia

Abstract This study aimed to evaluate the incidence of medication errors over a period of one year in King Fahad Hospital Madina Saudi Arabia. This retrospective, cross-sectional study was conducted over a period of one year from 2018 January to 2018 December using patient’s records. King Fahad Hospita...

Efecto de las medidas de salud pública en la incidencia, transmisión y mortalidad por COVID-19
Effect of public health measures on COVID-19 incidence, transmission and mortality

Caracterización epidemiológica de los nuevos diagnósticos de infección por virus de inmunodeficiencia humana en Chile período 2010-2019

Rev. chil. infectol; 39 (4), 2022
INTRODUCCIÓN: Chile lidera el porcentaje de aumento de nuevas infecciones de VIH en Latinoamérica. OBJETIVO: Caracterizar los nuevos diagnósticos de infección por VIH/SIDA y describir la evolución de las tasas en las regiones durante el período 2010-2019. MÉTODOS: Diseño ecológico. Se utilizó l...