INTRODUCCIÓN: Las adicciones conductuales se caracterizan por una pérdida del control del sujeto sobre una determinada conducta, siendo el juego patológico (JP) la más estudiada de ellas. El JP se asocia con graves problemas académicos, alcoholismo, depresión y suicidio por lo que es fundamental sa...
OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in Brazil's inmate population.METHODS Systematic review on hepatitis C virus infection in the inmate population. Brazilian studies published from January 1, 1989 to February 20, 2014 were evaluated. The methodological quality of the stud...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To analyze the temporal trend of asthma and rhinoconjunctivitis prevalences as well as their symptoms in adolescents. METHODS Two cross-sectional studies were conducted using the same methodology and questionnaire as was used for adolescents aged 12 to 14 years in the Brazilian city of...
Asma/diagnóstico,
Asma/epidemiología,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Conjuntivitis Alérgica/diagnóstico,
Conjuntivitis Alérgica/epidemiología,
Estudios Transversales,
Autoevaluación Diagnóstica,
Prevalencia,
Rinitis Alérgica/diagnóstico,
Rinitis Alérgica/epidemiología,
Instituciones Académicas/estadística & datos numéricos,
Factores Sexuales,
Encuestas y Cuestionarios
OBJECTIVE To estimate the burden of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its percentage attributable to overweight and obesity in Brazil.METHODS The burden of diabetes mellitus was described in terms of disability-adjusted life years, which is the sum of two components: years of life lost and years lived with di...
Factores de Edad,
Índice de Masa Corporal,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/etiología,
Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/mortalidad,
Personas con Discapacidad/estadística & datos numéricos,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Obesidad/complicaciones,
Obesidad/epidemiología,
Sobrepeso/complicaciones,
Prevalencia,
Años de Vida Ajustados por Calidad de Vida,
Factores de Riesgo,
Factores Sexuales
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence and factors associated with functional disability in adults in Brazil. METHODS We used information from the health supplement of the National Household Sample Survey in 2008. The dependent variable was the functional disability among adults of 18 to 65 ye...
Brasil/epidemiología,
Enfermedad Crónica,
Estudios Transversales,
Evaluación de la Discapacidad,
Personas con Discapacidad/clasificación,
Personas con Discapacidad/estadística & datos numéricos,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Prevalencia,
Calidad de Vida,
Factores de Riesgo,
Factores Socioeconómicos
OBJECTIVE To analyze if metabolic syndrome and its altered components are associated with demographic, socioeconomic and behavioral factors in fixed-shift workers.METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 902 shift workers of both sexes in a poultry processing plant in Southern Brazil ...
Factores de Edad,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Estudios Transversales,
Síndrome Metabólico/epidemiología,
Salud Laboral/estadística & datos numéricos,
Prevalencia,
Factores de Riesgo,
Factores Sexuales,
Factores Socioeconómicos,
Circunferencia de la Cintura,
Tolerancia al Trabajo Programado
OBJECTIVE To estimate worldwide prevalence of chronic low back pain according to age and sex. METHODS We consulted Medline (PubMed), LILACS and EMBASE electronic databases. The search strategy used the following descriptors and combinations: back pain, prevalence, musculoskeletal diseases, chronic mus...
OBJECTIVE To analyze temporal trends of the prevalence of alcohol and tobacco use among Brazilian students. METHODS We analyzed data published between 1989 and 2010 from five epidemiological surveys on students from the 6th to the 12th grade of public schools from the ten largest state capitals of Bra...
OBJECTIVE To analyze the prevalence of bullying and its associated factors in Brazilian adolescents.METHODS Data were used from a population-based household survey conducted by the Urban Health Observatory (OSUBH) utilizing probability sampling in three stages: census tracts, residences, and individuals....
Conducta del Adolescente/psicología,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Acoso Escolar/estadística & datos numéricos,
Víctimas de Crimen/psicología,
Estudios Transversales,
Satisfacción Personal,
Prevalencia,
Características de la Residencia,
Autoimagen,
Distribución por Sexo,
Factores Socioeconómicos,
Encuestas y Cuestionarios
OBJECTIVE To estimate the degree of educational inequality in the occurrence of abdominal obesity in a population of non-faculty civil servants at university campi.METHODS In this cross-sectional study, we used data from 3,117 subjects of both genders aged 24 to 65-years old, regarding the baseline ofPr...
