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Ultrasound measurement of thyroid volume in euthyroid children under 3 years of...
Souza,Luís Ronan Marquez Ferreira de; Sedassari,Nathalie de Almeida; Dias,Eduarda Lemes; Dib,Fernanda Cristina Mattos; Palhares,Heloisa Marcelina CunhaAbstract Objective: To establish ultrasound reference values for thyroid volumes in children up to 3 years of age, given that ultrasound of the thyroid is an essential examination in the diagnosis of childhood thyroid disease. Materials and Methods: This was a prospective study conducted in an iodine-sufficient city in southeastern Brazil. A total of 100 healthy children underwent clinical evaluation, anthropom...
Effectiveness of screening for tuberculosis in HIV: a pragmatic clinical trial
Santos,Marcela Lopes; Batista,Joanna d’Arc Lyra; Braga,Cynthia; Silva,Adriana Paula da; Maruza,Magda; Souza,Wayner Vieira; Carvalho,Maria Rosimery deABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To verify the effectiveness of screening for tuberculosis (TB) on all-cause mortality and tuberculosis cases in newly diagnosed HIV-infected patients through a clinical algorithm based on recommendations of the World Health Organization. METHODS: From March 2014 to April 2016, a pragmatic randomized clinical trial was conducted with newly diagnosed and TB-free HIV-infected adults undergoing ...
PUBERTY IN A SAMPLE OF BRAZILIAN SCHOOLBOYS: ONSET AND ANTHROPOMETRIC CHARACTER...
Feibelmann,Taciana Carla Maia; Silva,Adriana Paula da; Santos,Juliana Pereira Pontes; Almeida,Esthefania Garcia de; Palhares,Heloisa Marcelina da CunhaABSTRACT Objective: To determine the age of puberty onset in boys and collect anthropometric data of participants at different puberty stages. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study that assessed 430 boys in a random sample representing 48,390 students from public and private schools from the city of Uberaba, Southeast Brazil. The inclusion criteria were males, aged between 5 and 18 years, and absence of prev...
Percepção de Acadêmicos de Medicina e de Outras Áreas da Saúde e Humanas (Ligad...
Ferreira,Tassiani Turra; Borges,Maria de Fátima; Zanetti,Guilherme Cia; Lemos,Gustavo Luis; Gotti,Eduardo Souza; Tomé,Janaíne MachadoRESUMO Introdução: Alguns autores encontraram relação estreita e positiva da religiosidade e espiritualidade com comportamentos saudáveis, resultando em saúde adequada. Além disso, dados da literatura sugerem que, de modo geral, as pessoas se apoiam em suas crenças para enfrentar momentos de dificuldades pessoais e coletivas. Os profissionais cujas práticas estão ligadas ao cuidado em saúde necessitam se capaci...
ASSOCIAÇÃO ENTRE ACANTOSE NIGRICANS E OUTROS FATORES DE RISCO CARDIOMETABÓLICO ...
Palhares,Heloísa Marcelina da Cunha; Zaidan,Paula Cunha; Dib,Fernanda Cristina Mattos; Silva,Adriana Paula da; Resende,Daniela Cristina SilvaRESUMO Objetivo: Avaliar em um grupo de crianças e adolescentes com obesidade e sobrepeso a presença ou não de acantose nigricans e sua associação com alterações metabólicas. Métodos: Estudo transversal envolvendo 161 indivíduos com excesso de peso, que foram divididos em dois grupos, segundo a presença ou não de acantose nigricans, e nos quais foram obtidas medidas antropométricas (índice de massa corporal, pr...
Factors associated with treatment for latent tuberculosis in persons living wit...
Aquino,Daniela Silva de; Moura,Líbia Cristina Rocha Vilela; Maruza,Magda; Silva,Adriana Paula da; Ximenes,Ricardo Arraes de AlencarAbstract The aim was to identify factors associated with non-initiation of prophylactic treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBi) in persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA), based on a prospective cohort study of PLWA ≥ 18 years of age in two referral services for HIV/AIDS. Of the 232 patients eligible for treatment of LTBi, 69.8% initiated treatment. Following multivariate logistic regression analysis, onl...
Puberty in a sample of Brazilian schoolgirls: timing and anthropometric charact...
Feibelmann,Taciana Carla Maia; Silva,Adriana Paula da; Resende,Daniela Cristina Silva; Resende,Elisabete Aparecida Mantovani Rodrigues deObjective The objective of this study was to determine the age at which puberty begins, age of menarche and anthropometric data of the participants at different stages of puberty. Subjects and methods This is a cross-sectional study in which we evaluated 665 girls, a sample representing the female schoolchildren population in Uberaba. Results We found that thelarche, pubarche, underarm hair and menarche were at...
Body mass index in individuals with HIV infection and factors associated with t...
Mariz,Carolline de Araújo; Albuquerque,Maria de Fátima P. Militão de; Ximenes,Ricardo Arraes de Alencar; Melo,Heloísa Ramos Lacerda deA cross-sectional study was conducted using body mass index (BMI) to estimate the prevalence of thinness and overweight/obesity and associated factors in 2,018 individuals with HIV/AIDS attending health services referral centers. The dependent variable was classified as thinness, overweight/obesity and eutrophy. Multinomial logistic regression analyses were performed considering eutrophy as the reference level....