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Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents...
Rodrigues, Aristides Miguel da Costa Machado; Mascarenhas, Luís P. G.; Basit, Abdul W.; Pinto, Anabela Mota; Mota, Jorge; Muc, MagdalenaBackground Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. Methods For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collate...
Autosomal recessive nanophthalmos : MFRP mutation and phenotypical spectrum
Breda, João Filipe BarbosaTrabalho de projecto de mestrado integrado em Medicina (Oftalmologia) apresentado à Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra; Nanophthalmos is a rare congenital disorder of the eye, usually bilateral and symmetrical, characterized by a small eye, associated with shortened axial length (21mm or less), high corneal curvature, narrow iridocorneal angle, high hyperopia (ranging from +8.00 to +25.00) and exc...