O objetivo do estudo foi investigar os fatores de risco para doenças cardiovasculares em adolescentes do município de Picos-Piauí. Estudo descritivo e transversal realizado com 151 adolescentes. A coleta de dados ocorreu no período de agosto a outubro de 2013 nas escolas particulares. Os resultados e...
BACKGROUND: Ballet is a high-performance activity that requires an advanced level of technical skills. Ballet places great stress on tendons, muscles, bones, and joints and may act directly as a trigger of injury by overuse. OBJECTIVES: 1) to describe the main types of injuries and affected areas rela...
Abstract BACKGROUND: Although dermatophytes are considered the major cause of onychomycosis, many reports have incriminated non-dermatophyte moulds and yeasts in the disease’s etiology. Successive Trichosporon isolation from onychomycosis has led to the genus being suspected as a nail primary path...
Abstract Objective: Sleep deprivation in adolescents has lately become a health issue that tends to increase with higher stress prevalence, extenuating routines, and new technological devices that impair adolescents' bedtime. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the excessive sleepiness frequency and t...
Abstract A population survey was conducted to explore the prevalence and factors associated with Leishmania infection in the Fercal region of the Federal District. The Fercal region is a group of neighborhoods in Brasília in which the first cases of visceral leishmaniasis were described. Leishmania infe...
Abstract Objective There are a lot of disagreements in the studies on hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA polymerase mutation rate associated with nucleos(t)ide analogues (NAs) in treatment-naive chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients. This is the first study aimed to investigate the prevalence of spontaneous HBV r...
Antivirales/uso terapéutico,
China,
ADN Viral/genética,
ADN Polimerasa Dirigida por ADN/genética,
Farmacorresistencia Viral/genética,
Genotipo,
Virus de la Hepatitis B/efectos de los fármacos,
Virus de la Hepatitis B/genética,
Hepatitis B Crónica/tratamiento farmacológico,
Hepatitis B Crónica/virología,
Mutación/genética,
Prevalencia,
Estudios Prospectivos
Abstract Objective To explore the distribution and clinical manifestations of rhinovirus infection in wheezing children, and compare the clinical differences between rhinovirus- and respiratory syncytial virus-induced wheezing. Materials and methods This prospective cohort study was carried out in Chil...
China/epidemiología,
Estudios de Cohortes,
Infecciones por Picornaviridae/epidemiología,
Infecciones por Picornaviridae/virología,
Prevalencia,
Estudios Prospectivos,
Ruidos Respiratorios/etiología,
Infecciones por Virus Sincitial Respiratorio/epidemiología,
Infecciones por Virus Sincitial Respiratorio/virología,
Rhinovirus/aislamiento & purificación,
Estaciones del Año
Abstract BACKGROUND: Obesity is considered a chronic low-grade inflammatory disease that shares mediators of inflammation with psoriasis, such as TNF-α and IL-6. The relationship between these two conditions involves factors such as predisposition and response to therapy, in addition to an associat...
Absorciometría de Fotón/métodos,
Obesidad/diagnóstico por imagen,
Obesidad/epidemiología,
Psoriasis/epidemiología,
Factores de Edad,
Índice de Masa Corporal,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Enfermedades Cardiovasculares/etiología,
Obesidad/complicaciones,
Prevalencia,
Psoriasis/complicaciones,
Valores de Referencia,
Reproducibilidad de los Resultados,
Factores Sexuales,
Estadísticas no Paramétricas,
Circunferencia de la Cintura
Se realizó una investigación observacional, descriptiva y aplicada sobre los pacientes hipertensos de Santiago de Cuba, con análisis de series temporales, que abarcó desde enero de 2001 hasta diciembre de 2014. Las variables analizadas fueron la edad y el año de ocurrencia del proceso. Toda la infor...
Torres-Ibarra, Leticia;
Lazcano-Ponce, Eduardo;
Franco, Eduardo L;
Cuzick, Jack;
Hernández-Ávila, Mauricio;
Lorincz, Attila;
Rivera, Berenice;
Ramírez, Paula;
Mendiola-Pastrana, Indira;
Rudolph, Samantha E;
León-Maldonado, Leith;
Hernández, Rubí;
Barrios, Elizabeth;
Gravitt, Patti;
Moscicki, Anna Barbara;
Schmeler, Kathleen M;
Flores, Yvonne N;
Méndez-Hernández, Pablo;
Salmerón, Jorge.
Abstract Objective: This paper describes the study design and baseline characteristics of the study population, including the first 30 829 women who enrolled in the Forwarding Research for Improved Detection and Access for Cervical Cancer Screening and Triage (FRIDA Study). This is a large population ba...
Células Escamosas Atípicas del Cuello del Útero/patología,
Células Escamosas Atípicas del Cuello del Útero/virología,
Biopsia,
31574/diagnóstico,
31574/epidemiología,
31574/virología,
Colposcopía,
Detección Precoz del Cáncer/métodos,
Papillomavirus Humano 16/aislamiento & purificación,
Papillomavirus Humano 18/aislamiento & purificación,
México/epidemiología,
Infecciones por Papillomavirus/epidemiología,
Prevalencia,
Servicios Preventivos de Salud/métodos,
Servicios Preventivos de Salud/organización & administración,
Riesgo,
Triaje/métodos,
Neoplasias del Cuello Uterino/diagnóstico,
Neoplasias del Cuello Uterino/virología,
Frotis Vaginal
