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The burden of atherosclerosis in Portugal

Aims: This paper sought to estimate the burden of disease attributable to atherosclerosis in mainland Portugal in 2016. Methods and results: The burden of atherosclerosis was measured in disability-adjusted life years (DALY) following the latest 2010 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) methodology. DALYs were estimated as the sum of years of life lost (YLL) with years lived with disability (YLD). The following clini...

Projected impact of the Portuguese sugar-sweetened beverage tax on obesity inci...

Background Excessive consumption of sugar has a well-established link with obesity. Preliminary results show that a tax levied on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) by the Portuguese government in 2017 led to a drop in sales and reformulation of these products. This study models the impact the market changes triggered by the tax levied on SSBs had on obesity incidence across various age groups in Portugal. Method...

Nutri-Score: A Public Health Tool to Improve Eating Habits in Portugal

Modelling impacts of food industry co-regulation on noncommunicable disease mor...

Objective To model the reduction in premature deaths attributed to noncommunicable diseases if targets for reformulation of processed food agreed between the Portuguese health ministry and the food industry were met. Methods The 2015 co-regulation agreement sets voluntary targets for reducing sugar, salt and trans-fatty acids in a range of products by 2021. We obtained government data on dietary intake in 2015-...

Trends in cardiovascular diseases and cancer mortality in 45 countries from fiv...

Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and cancer are worldwide main causes of death with mortality trends varying across countries with different levels of economic development. Design and methods: We analysed trends in CVD and cancer mortality for 37 European countries, five high-income non-European countries and four leading emerging economies (BRICS) using data from the World Health Organization database...

Phylogenetic demonstration of two cases of perinatal human immunodeficiency vir...

HIV-2 infection was diagnosed in two patients 15 and 24 years of age and, thereafter, in their mothers. Epidemiological data suggested that vertical transmission was the most probable mode of infection in both patients (Mota-Miranda A, et al.: AIDS 2001;

Influence of the interval between the administration of doxorubicin and paclita...

Purpose: The combination of bolus doxorubicin followed by a 3-h infusion of paclitaxel has high antitumor activity in patients with metastatic breast cancer, but is limited by unexpected cardiac toxicity. In contrast, the administration of the two drugs 16 li apart has similar antitumor activity but less cardiac toxicity. The purpose of this study was to compare the pharmacokinetics of these drugs when doxorubi...

Perinatally acquired HIV-2 infection diagnosed at 15 and 24 years of age