ABSTRACT Epidemiology is the study of occurrence, distribution and determinants of health-related events, including the application of that knowledge to the prevention and control of health problems. However, epidemiological studies, in most cases, have limited their research questions to determinants of...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE Analyze the use of antihypertensives among seniors and the association with socioeconomic and behavioral characteristics. METHODS In this seriate cross-sectional study, we used data from the Saúde, Bem Estar e Envelhecimento study (SABE - Health, Well-being, and Aging), conducted ...
Factores de Edad,
Antihipertensivos/uso terapéutico,
Índice de Masa Corporal,
Brasil,
Estudios Transversales,
Hipertensión/tratamiento farmacológico,
Hipertensión/psicología,
Modelos Logísticos,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Factores de Riesgo,
Factores Sexuales,
Factores Socioeconómicos
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To analyze the factors associated with late presentation to HIV/AIDS services among heterosexual men. METHODS Men infected by HIV who self-identified as heterosexual (n = 543) were included in the study. Descriptive, biivariate and logistic regression analyses were performed to eva...
Actitud Frente a la Salud,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Recuento de Linfocito CD4,
Estudios Transversales,
Diagnóstico Tardío,
Progresión de la Enfermedad,
Infecciones por VIH/diagnóstico,
Infecciones por VIH/epidemiología,
Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud,
Heterosexualidad,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Prevalencia,
Factores de Riesgo
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To identify the factors associated with severity of malocclusion in a population of adolescents. METHODS In this cross-sectional population-based study, the sample size (n = 761) was calculated considering a prevalence of malocclusion of 50.0%, with a 95% confidence level and a 5.0...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of hypertension among adolescent Brazilian students. METHODS A systematic review of school-based cross-sectional studies was conducted. The articles were searched in the databases MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, LILACS, SciELO, Web of Science, CAPES thesis datab...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To analyze the scientific literature about the effects of exposure to psychosocial risk factors in work contexts. METHODS A systematic review was performed using the terms "psychosocial factors" AND "COPSOQ" in the databases PubMed, Medline, and Scopus. The period analyzed was from...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To describe the methodological characteristics of the studies selected and assess variables associated with sedentary behavior in Brazilian children and adolescents. METHODS For this systematic review, we searched four electronic databases: PubMed, Web of Knowledge, LILACS, SciELO....
Szwarcwald, Célia Landmann;
Ferreira Júnior, Orlando da Costa;
Brito, Ana Maria de;
Luhm, Karin Regina;
Ribeiro, Clea Elisa Lopes;
Silva, Ana Maria;
Cavalcanti, Ana Maria Salustiano;
Ito, Tomoko Sasazawa;
Raboni, Sonia Mara;
Souza Júnior, Paulo Roberto Borges de;
Pereira, Gerson Fernando Mendes.
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate HIV incidence in two Brazilian municipalities, Recife and Curitiba, in the year of 2013. METHODS The method for estimating incidence was based on primary information, resulting from the Lag-Avidity laboratory test for detection of recent HIV infections, applied in a sam...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate the potential years of life lost by road traffic injuries three years after the beginning of the Decade of Action for Traffic Safety. METHODS We analyzed the data of the Sistema de Informações sobre Mortalidade (SIM - Mortality Information System) related to road traf...
Accidentes de Tránsito/mortalidad,
Distribución por Edad,
Factores de Edad,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Esperanza de Vida,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Motocicletas/estadística & datos numéricos,
Estudios Retrospectivos,
Factores de Riesgo,
Distribución por Sexo,
Factores Sexuales,
Factores Socioeconómicos,
Índices de Gravedad del Trauma
Cognitive ecologist posits that the more efficiently an animal uses information from the biotic and abiotic environment, the more adaptive are its cognitive abilities. Nevertheless, this approach does not test for natural neurodegenerative processes under field or experimental conditions, which may recov...
Enfermedad de Alzheimer/etiología,
Enfermedad de Alzheimer/psicología,
Cognición/fisiología,
Modelos Animales de Enfermedad,
Ambiente,
Octodon,
Conducta Social,
Enfermedad de Alzheimer/fisiopatología,
Investigación Biomédica/métodos,
Trastornos de la Memoria/fisiopatología,
Envejecimiento,
Factores de Riesgo,
Estrés Psicológico
