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Preliminary results of a clinical study to evaluate the performance and safety of swallowing in critical patients with COVID-19

Clinics; 75 (), 2020

Caracterização do escape posterior tardio na deglutição

CoDAS; 32 (4), 2020
RESUMO Objetivo Descrever e caracterizar um achado, o escape posterior tardio de resíduo alimentar na deglutição, segundo idade, gênero e consistência do alimento, que ocorreu no evento. Método A coleta de dados ocorreu por meio da análise de cada exame de videonasoendoscopia funcional da deglut...

Narrative discourse of young and older brazilian adults associated with demographic factors

CoDAS; 32 (5), 2020
ABSTRACT Purpose: 1) Compare the discourse performance between young and older adults from the Brazilian Federal District (DF); 2) Compare the mean discourse performance of participants from the DF with the normative discourse of a population from a different region of the country; 3) Verify whether the...

Common mental disorders and socioeconomic status in adolescents of ERICA

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Adolescence is a stage of great social, family and emotional demands, and the literature has related common mental disorder (CMD) with poor living conditions. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between CMD and socioeconomic status in Brazilian adolescents aged 12 to 17 ye...

Robust older adults in primary care: factors associated with successful aging

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of robustness among older adults assisted in primary health care and identify factors in successful aging. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study conducted with older adults in Northern Minas Gerais, Brazil. Two questionnaires were used for data collecti...

Pattern evolution of antidepressants and benzodiazepines use in a cohort

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE In recent decades there has been an increase in the use of antidepressants (AD) and a decrease in the use of benzodiazepines (BDZ). Prevalence, cumulative incidence, and factors associated with the incidence of AD and BDZ use in a Brazilian population were estimated in this article. ...

Pre-frailty, frailty and associated factors in older caregivers of older adults

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Providing care to an older adult is an activity that requires considerable physical effort and can cause stress and psychological strain, which accentuate factors that trigger the cycle of frailty, especially when the caregiver is also an older adult. However, few studies have ana...

On-demand cesarean section: assessing trends and socioeconomic disparities

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: to measure prevalence, evaluate trends and identify socioeconomic differences of on-demand cesarean section in the municipality of Rio Grande (RS), extreme south of Brazil, in 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016. METHODS: all the puerperae residing in this municipality who had cesarean delive...

DEC1: a potential biomarker of malignant transformation in oral leukoplakia

Abstract The purpose of this study was to analyze the differential expression of DEC1 in oral normal mucosa (NM), oral leukoplakia (OLK) and oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Surgically excised specimens from patients with OLK (n = 47), OSCC (n = 30) and oral normal mucosa (n=11) were immunostained fo...

Factores modificables y riesgo de diabetes mellitus tipo 2 en adultos jóvenes: un estudio transversal

RESUMEN Objetivo: Evaluar el riesgo de desarrollar Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2 (DM2) y sus factores asociados en estudiantes de una institución universitaria de Barranquilla-Colombia. Material y Método: Se realizó un estudio correlacionai de corte transversal, en el cual se aplicó el cuestionario Finnis...