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... A relatively large amount of information about mortality and DALYs is available, but the impact of non-lethal conditions on increasing YLDs and DALYs deserves more attention from the Brazilian health authorities. São ... See full document

... (HICC) at a 405-bed LTCI belonging to a philanthropic insti- tution. This LTCI is affiliated to an undergraduate medical course and to medical residency programs in the city of São Paulo. This institution was ... See full document

... Selection criteria: All completed, truly randomized trials (RCT) that com- pared very early cerebral revascularization (within two days) with de- layed treatment (after two days) for peo[r] ... See full document

... Overall, the quality of evidence was low to moderate and did not show any beneicial efect from statins on the development of aortic stenosis.. This review demonstrates that, given the l[r] ... See full document

... care unit, which is located in the western area of the city of São Paulo. Among these individuals, 618 (13.7%) were not found, 204 (4.5%) refused to participate in the study and 13 (0.29%) were incapable of ... See full document

... An English-language literature review was conducted to identify the incidence and prevalence of stroke, the approaches to its management and prevention and patient outcomes across a ra[r] ... See full document

... Firstly, 758 subjects from two specialized public community health centers were invited to participated in the present study. Two hundred and thirty-four of the invited subjects were mid- dle-aged and unable to commit to ... See full document

... In this cross-sectional observational study, we analyzed patients operated on for liver transplantation in the Department of Gastroenterology, Liver Transplantation and Surgery of the School of Medicine of the University ... See full document

... 7. Zunza M, Mercer GD, Thabane L, et al. Efects of postnatal interventions for the reduction of vertical HIV transmission on infant growth and non-HIV infections: a systematic review. J Int AIDS Soc. ... See full document

... METHODS: Data on 150 professional and non-professional practitioners of ballet, jazz and street dance were collected through speciic questionnaires: Brief Pain Inventory-Short Form (BP[r] ... See full document

... Within this context, this study aimed to assess the impact of bar- iatric surgery on medication drug use among morbidly obese patients, before and ater the procedure, focusing mainly on[r] ... See full document

... 13 identiied moderate to severe appear- ance-related obsessive-compulsive symptoms in 33% of their patients seeking rhinoplasty, also using the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale M[r] ... See full document

... Because of the paucity of data on Brazilian pa- tients, this study aimed to determine the frequency of B12 deiciency and related factors among Brazilian patients with type 2 diabetes me[r] ... See full document

... Out of the 49 serum samples from patients with AIDS-KS, 21 (42.8%) were HHV-8 positive in our study, thus indicating that these patients presented viremia, an important event in the pa[r] ... See full document

... In January 2001, I wrote an editorial on this page with the title “Cofee, Samba, Football, AIDS and Social Inequality in Brazil.” he irst paragraph described a contradiction within the Brazilian National Health System: ... See full document

... OSA = obstructive sleep apnea; F = female; M = male; BMI: body mass index; AHI = apnea-hypopnea index, ODI = oxygen desaturation index, TO = turbulence onset; TS = turbulence slope; SDN[r] ... See full document

... Assistant Professor of Nursing, Renal Transplantation Unit, Division of Nephrology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, and Research Fellow, Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos e Pesq[r] ... See full document

... DESIGN AND SETTING: Prospective study at Emergency Unit, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo. METHOD: Intrahospital evolution and platelet aggregation in response to tiroiban were analyzed in relation ... See full document

... hus, the aim of this study was to determine a cutof value, in centimeters, for pelvic loor distensibility measured using the Epi-no balloon, which could be used as a predictive factor[r] ... See full document

... São Paulo relect deep inequalities in living conditions, which are closely related to social and economic factors and have a major inluence on the quality of vital statistics ... See full document