Published in BMJ open
To perform a systematic review on the characteristics of participants who attended screening programmes with blood glucose tests, lipid profiles or a combination of them, respectively. Systematic review following the Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology checklist. PubMed and Medline databases for English literature from 1 January ...
Published in Revista de Saúde Pública
OBJECTIVE To analyze the sociodemographic profile and self-reported health conditions of asylum-seekers in Rio de Janeiro. METHODS A cross-sectional study of secondary data, collected from asylum claims forms completed in 2016 and 2017, at Cáritas Arquidiocesana do Rio de Janeiro (Cáritas-RJ). Descriptive analyses were performed and absolute and re...
Introduction: Smoking cessation interventions are a priority in medical care settings, including hospitals. Objectives: To describe the sociodemographic, family, and clinical characteristics of smokers treated in a quaternary care hospital and to establish the variables associated with smoking cessation intention in order to optimize the management...
Objective: To determine the level of knowledge of organ donation (LKD) in tenth-semester Human Medicine students and its relationship with some sociodemographic variables. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional survey study conducted with 121 students from a Peruvian university. A questionnaire consisting of five sociodemographic characteristics ...
Published in Medical Science Monitor : International Medical Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research
Background Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is one of the most common opportunistic neuroinfections in patients with HIV. Most studies have focused on non-HIV CM and there are only a few studies on HIV CM in China. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the characteristics and risk factors for CM recurrence in patients infected with HIV in th...
Published in Acta Stomatologica Croatica
Objectives This study was performed to determine the values of the articular eminence inclination (AEI), the articular eminence height (AEH), and the length of the articular eminence curved line (AEL) among American prehistoric and contemporary populations. Materials and methods The study was carried out on 120 human dry skulls divided into 4 group...
Published in Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research
Infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) commonly presents with pneumonia. However, COVID-19 is now recognized to involve multiple organ systems with varying severity and duration. In July 2021, the findings from a retrospective population study from the National COV...
Published in Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research
BACKGROUND The incidence of osteoclast-like giant cell tumor of the pancreas (OGTP) is very low, and relatively little OGTP clinical data is available. The present study, therefore, sought to conduct a more comprehensive analysis of the clinical characteristics and prognosis of OGTP. MATERIAL AND METHODS A large population-based cohort analysis was...
Published in American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation
Evidence is limited regarding clinical factors associated with ambulation status over the lifespan of individuals with myelomeningocele. We used longitudinal data from the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry to model population-level variation in ambulation over time and hypothesized that effects of clinical factors associated with ambulation wo...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to evaluate the burden and its relationship with the sociodemographic characteristics of caregivers of people with sequelae of stroke. Methods: a cross-sectional, exploratory, and quantitative study was conducted with 151 caregivers of people with sequelae of stroke, through home interviews between September and December 2017. ...
