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Association between area-level walkability and glycated haemoglobin

Funding Information: Ana Isabel Ribeiro was supported by National Funds through FCT, under the programme of Stimulus of Scientific Employment\u2013Individual Support within the contract CEECIND/02386/2018. This study was also funded by FEDER through the Operational Programme Competitiveness and Internationalization and national funding from the Foundation for Science and Technology \u2013 FCT (Portuguese Minist...

COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness among healthcare workers

Publisher Copyright: © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.; OBJECTIVES: Healthcare workers (HCWs) were the first to be prioritised for COVID-19 vaccination. This study aims to estimate the COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) against SARS-CoV-2 symptomatic infection among HCWs in Portuguese hospitals. DESIGN: ...

Ambient particulate matter exposure interacts with abdominal obesity to increas...

Prevalência de cardiopatias congénitas em Portugal em 2015

INTRODUCTION: The prevalence at birth of congenital heart disease in Portugal is 8.3/1000 births; undetected critical congenital heart disease may result in adverse outcomes for the fetus/newborn infant. This study describes the reported cases of congenital heart disease in Portugal in 2015 regarding antenatal diagnosis, cardiac defect, and presence of other congenital anomalies/chromosomal abnormalities. These...

Multimorbilidade em Portugal

Introduction: The simultaneous presence of multiple chronic diseases in the same individual is recognized as an important public health problem. Patients with multimorbidity have greater healthcare needs, which represents a higher burden on health services. Although there is no consensual definition of this concept, multimorbidity is usually defined as the presence of two or more chronic diseases in the same pa...

Tailoring IGZO composition for enhanced fully solution-based thin film transistors

UID/CTM/50025/2019 H2020 NMP-22-2015 project 1D-NEON Grant Agreement 685758 SFRH/BD/116047/2016 IDS-FunMat-INNO project FPA2016/EIT/EIT Raw Materials Grant Agreement 15015; Solution-processed metal oxides have been investigated as an alternative to vacuum-based oxides to implement low-cost, high-performance electronic devices on flexible transparent substrates. However, their electrical properties need to be en...

Um grande surto da Doença dos Legionários numa cidade industrial em Portugal

Background We describe the investigation and control of an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Portugal in October, November and December 2014. Methods Confirmed cases were individuals with pneumonia, laboratory evidence of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 and exposure, by residence, occupational or leisure to the affected municipalities. 49 possible sources were reduced to four potential sources, all indust...