ABSTRACT Objective: To reconnoiter the IL-1A (-889) and IL-1RN (+2018) gene polymorphisms and their association with EARR. Material and Methods: The Science Direct, PubMed and Scopus databases were comprehensively searched by two independent reviewers. In addition, the bibliographies of all relevant pu...
ABSTRACT Introduction: to evaluate urinary biochemical alterations related to urolithogenesis processes after sleeve gastrectomy (SG). Materials and methods : prospective study with 32 individuals without previous diagnosis of urolithiasis who underwent SG. A 24-h urine test was collected seven days p...
OBJECTIVE: To compare factors associated with death in adults and older people with advanced cancer who were hospitalized
in a palliative care unit (PCU). METHODS: Case-control study with patients (adults vs older people) admitted to a PCU of
National Cancer Institute José Alencar Gomes da Silva (INCA),...
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effect of frailty on 1-year mortality in long term-care facility (LTCF) residents. METHODS: This
was a prospective cohort study with survival analysis of 209 participants living in 15 Brazilian LTCFs. Data on chronic diseases,
age, sex, medication use, dependence in activit...
ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the characteristics of women according to the reported number of benefits of breastfeeding and to verify its association with the duration of this practice until the sixth month of the child's life. Methods: This was a qualitative and prospective observational study pe...
ABSTRACT: Objective: To analyze early and late maternal complications associated with the mode of delivery in a birth cohort in Brazil, using the propensity score technique for analysis. Methods: This is a prospective cohort study, using data from the Pelotas Birth Cohort, RS, 2004. A total of 4,189 wo...
Objetivo: Avaliar associação entre prematuridade tardia e utilização de serviços de referência no primeiro ano de vida. Métodos: Estudo de coorte prospectiva, com dados coletados no 1º, 3º, 6º, 9º e 12º meses dos lactentes. Características maternas e de nascimento foram comparadas entre nas...
Pedroso, Márcia Regina de Oliveira;
Guidoni, Leticia Molino;
Zandonade, Eliana;
Fregona, Geisa;
Negri, Letícya dos Santos Almeida;
Oliveira, Sandra Maria do Valle Leone de;
Prado, Thiago Nascimento do;
Sales, Carolina Maia Martins;
Coimbra, Raisa da Silveira;
Galavote, Heletícia Scabelo;
Maciel, Ethel Leonor Noia.
Objetivo: Avaliar o impacto dos custos catastróficos no desfecho desfavorável do tratamento da tuberculose. Métodos: Estudo de coorte prospectiva, realizado em cinco capitais de estados brasileiros (Manaus, Recife, Vitória, Campo Grande e Porto Alegre) no período de junho de 2016 a julho de 2018. E...
Guarize, Juliana;
Rocco, Elena Guerini;
Marinis, Filippo de;
Sedda, Giulia;
Bertolaccini, Luca;
Donghi, Stefano Maria;
Casiraghi, Monica;
Tonno, Clementina Di;
Barberis, Massimo;
Spaggiari, Lorenzo.
ABSTRACT Objective: EBUS-TBNA cytological sampling is routinely performed for pathological diagnosis, mediastinal staging, and molecular testing in lung cancer patients. EBUS-TBNA samples are not formally accepted for testing programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression. The objective of the study was t...
OBJECTIVES: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common neoplasm in women. Biopsy of metastatic lesions is recommended to confirm estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) status as there are discrepancies in these patterns between primary tumors an...
