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The Prevalence of COVID-19 Fog and the Impact on Quality of Life After SARS-CoV...

Funding Information: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. Publisher Copyright: © Ordem dos Médicos 2023.; Introduction: Coronavirus has an impact on both the physical and mental health of individuals. The literature regarding the patient’s health status post- SARS-CoV-2 is still scarce with limited data on the prevalence of residu...

Validação Exploratória e Confirmatória da Escala de Resiliência Connor-Davidson...

Introduction: Bonanno defined resilience as the individual's capacity to cope with traumatic events, namely, the ability to maintain the levels of physical and psychological functioning relatively stable. The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of 10-item Connor-Davidson resilience scale. The Connor-Davidson resilience scale short version has good psychometric qualities (Cronbach α - 0...

Fall determinants in the adult Portuguese

OBJECTIVES: Falls are a major public health issue, given its prevalence and social impact. This study aimed to (1) characterize fallers in the adult Portuguese population as well as (2) identify if some chronic conditions are fall determinants. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Our data of 7403 adults (≥18 years) was retrieved from phase 1 survey of EpiReumaPt, a representative sample of adult Portuguese population. We ana...

Sleep duration, lifestyles and chronic diseases

Background: Adequate sleep is essential for health. Both, short and long sleep durations are associated to worse quality of life and poor health outcomes. Portugal represents a specific population model, since according to European statistics it has high rates of chronic diseases like depression, hypertension, diabetes and stroke; and low quality of life as well as low index of physical activity, while in paral...

Food Insecurity in Older Adults

Introduction: The public health problem of food insecurity also affects the elderly population. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of household food insecurity and its associations with chronic disease and health-related quality of life characteristics in individuals ≥65 years of age living in the community in Portugal. Methods: The data were collected from the Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases Cohort S...

Dietary Patterns Characterized by High Meat Consumption Are Associated with Oth...

Gregório, M. J. B., Rodrigues, A. M., Eusebio, M., Sousa, R. D., Dias, S., Andre, B., ... Canhao, H. (2017). Dietary Patterns Characterized by High Meat Consumption Are Associated with Other Unhealthy Life Styles and Depression Symptoms. Frontiers in nutrition, 4, [25]. DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2017.00025; We aimed to identify dietary patterns (DPs) of Portuguese adults, to assess their socioeconomic, demographic, lif...

Spatial patterns of daily precipitation intensity in southern Portugal, 1940–1999