ABSTRACT: CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Within the Brazilian nutritional panorama, coexistence of antagonistic nutritional disorders can be seen, especially the increasing prevalence of overweight and the persistence of significant rates of chronic malnutrition in vulnerable groups of the population. Because ...
ABSTRACT: CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: The high prevalence of obesity has led to public policies for combating it. People with normal weight may gain greater awareness of this issue and change their perceptions of their weight. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of body weight dissatisfacti...
Conducta del Adolescente/psicología,
Distribución por Edad,
Imagen Corporal/psicología,
Peso Corporal/fisiología,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Estudios Transversales,
Conductas Relacionadas con la Salud,
Obesidad/epidemiología,
Satisfacción Personal,
Autoimagen,
Distribución por Sexo,
Factores Socioeconómicos,
Aumento de Peso,
Pérdida de Peso
ABSTRACT: CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES: The obesity paradox has already been established in relation to heart failure, but it is not known which obesity indicator best reflects this phenomenon. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between obesity indexes and mortality among patients with hea...
Adiposidad,
Antropometría/métodos,
Índice de Masa Corporal,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Insuficiencia Cardíaca/diagnóstico,
Insuficiencia Cardíaca/etiología,
Insuficiencia Cardíaca/mortalidad,
Producto de la Acumulación de Lípidos,
Obesidad Abdominal/complicaciones,
Obesidad Abdominal/diagnóstico,
Pronóstico,
Circunferencia de la Cintura
Abstract The present study used the indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) to determine the seroprevalence of Sarcocystis neurona, Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora spp., and evaluated the variables associated with these infections among 506 apparently healthy horses, reared in the south of the state of ...
Anticuerpos Antiprotozoarios,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Coccidiosis/epidemiología,
Coccidiosis/veterinaria,
Técnica del Anticuerpo Fluorescente Indirecta/veterinaria,
Enfermedades de los Caballos/epidemiología,
Enfermedades de los Caballos/microbiología,
Enfermedades de los Caballos/parasitología,
Caballos,
Neospora,
Sarcocystis,
Sarcocistosis/epidemiología,
Sarcocistosis/veterinaria,
Estudios Seroepidemiológicos,
Toxoplasma,
Toxoplasmosis Animal/epidemiología
Abstract Introduction Prevalence of low back pain (LBP) is expected to increase worldwide with aging of the population but its prevalence in older people is not clear, mainly in developing countries. Objective To estimate the prevalence of LBP in older Brazilians. Methods Electronic searches on SciELO...
Abstract Introduction: Benzodiazepines are among the most prescribed drugs for anxiety and one of the most used drug classes in the world and have a high potential for addiction. The objective of this study was to assess levels of dependence and anxiety among users of these drugs in the public health s...
Ansiedad/epidemiología,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Benzodiazepinas/uso terapéutico,
Estudios Transversales,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Escalas de Valoración Psiquiátrica,
Investigación Cualitativa,
Autoinforme,
Índice de Severidad de la Enfermedad,
Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/epidemiología,
Factores de Tiempo
Abstract We report six new occurrence records of the bush dog Speothos venaticus, a widely distributed South American carnivore that is threatened with extinction. These records are accompanied by notes on the places where the records were made, such as vegetation type, date and information about the pro...
Abstract The incidence of the species Candida albicans and non-albicans Candida was evaluated in a Brazilian Tertiary Hospital from the environment and health practitioners. In a 12-month period we had a total positivity of 19.65% of Candida spp. The most recurring non-albicans Candida species was C. gla...
Candida glabrata/aislamiento & purificación,
Candida/aislamiento & purificación,
Candidiasis/microbiología,
Infección Hospitalaria/microbiología,
Equipos y Suministros de Hospitales/microbiología,
Personal de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos,
Antifúngicos/farmacología,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Candida/clasificación,
Candida/efectos de los fármacos,
Candida/genética,
Candida glabrata/clasificación,
Candida glabrata/efectos de los fármacos,
Candida glabrata/genética,
Candidiasis/epidemiología,
Infección Hospitalaria/epidemiología,
Hospitales,
Hospitales/estadística & datos numéricos,
Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana,
Atención Terciaria de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos,
Farmacorresistencia Fúngica
Abstract β-Defensin-1, an antimicrobial peptide encoded by the DEFB1 gene, is known to play an important role in lung mucosal immunity. In our association study we analyzed three DEFB1 functional polymorphisms -52G>A (rs1799946), -44C>G (rs1800972) and -20G>A (rs11362) in 92 tuberculosis pa...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To identify maternal and neonatal factors associated with prematurity in the municipality of Porto Alegre. METHOD This was a population-based case-control study. The cases were newborns under 37 weeks of gestation and the controls were newborns over 37 weeks. The data came from the r...
