Introduction: Low birth weight is often associated with prematurity and results of a multitude of factors, circumstances, often unpredictable, that vary according to the demographic characteristics of the population. This condition is the main cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality, representing a complex challenge for health systems, families and society as a whole. In addition to the increased risk of deat...
Este trabalho emerge da vontade de potenciar dados das provas de Avaliação Aferida de Larga Escala do Ensino Secundário de 2017, para identificar áreas críticas do desempenho de alunos santomenses da 9.ª classe em Português e em Matemática, a partir da análise de respostas e da tipificação dos erros mais frequentes. A análise realizada revela que, em Português, há grandes dificuldades na Escrita e são áreas crí...
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Introduction: Chronic kidney disease prevalence has been increasing worldwide, with an increasing need to deliver an effective treatment. During the first months of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic healthcare systems around the world were under stress. Therefore, the aim of this study is to report a single center experience with arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation while also evaluating the impa...
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Continuing teacher training in São Tomé and Príncipe is not yet a systematic or compulsory one. It is recognized, however, that this training is essential not only for the updating and deepening of teacher knowledge, but also for filling serious gaps that a significant part of the teaching staff, still not professionally qualified and sometimes not even academically qualified, presents. Thus, in the framework o...
Serum gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) has been used as a marker of alcohol induced liver disease. Recent epidemiology and pathology studies have suggested its independent role in the pathogenesis and clinical evolution of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) promoting atherosclerosis through an oxidative process leading, within the atherosclerotic plaque, to LDL oxidation, metalloproteinase activation, cell prolifera...