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PRIMARY-HF: Heart Failure Screening in Primary Care using Point-of-Care

Introduction: Heart failure is a major health challenge with high morbidity and socioeconomic burden, especially when diagnosis is delayed. In primary care, HF detection can be challenging due to symptoms overlapping with other conditions, limited access to diagnostic tools, and resource constraints. This study explores the use of natriuretic peptides (NT-proBNP) and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) with artifi...

A Portuguese expert panel position paper on the management of heart failure wit...

In Portugal, a 15.2% prevalence of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) was recently identified among those aged ≥50 years. HFpEF represents 90% of Portuguese heart failure patients. HFpEF management in Portugal is challenging due to patient heterogeneity, diagnostic and therapeutic complexity, and organizational constraints on the healthcare system. Considering the above, a panel of Portugues...

A Portuguese expert panel position paper on the management of heart failure wit...

Heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) affects more than 50% of HF patients worldwide, and more than 70% of HF patients aged over 65. This is a complex syndrome with a clinically heterogeneous presentation and a multifactorial pathophysiology, both of which make its diagnosis and treatment challenging. A Portuguese HF expert panel convened to address HFpEF pathophysiology and therapy, as we...

Relatório - Programa de Execução, Modelo Perequativo, Plano de Financiamento - ...

RELATÓRIO: Diagnóstico; Objetivos de Ordenamento e de Desenvolvimento; Modelo de Estruturação e Organização do Território; Classificação e Qualificação do Solo; Propostas Sectoriais; Contributos Interdisciplinares; Dos Objetivos às Ações; Modelo Executório e Perequativo; Custos, Financiamento e Programação; e Monitorização e Avaliação

A Portuguese expert panel position paper on the management of heart failure wit...

Heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) affects more than 50% of HF patients worldwide, and more than 70% of HF patients aged over 65. This is a complex syndrome with a clinically heterogeneous presentation and a multifactorial pathophysiology, both of which make its diagnosis and treatment challenging. A Portuguese HF expert panel convened to address HFpEF pathophysiology and therapy, as we...

Home- versus centre-based EXercise InTervention in patients with Heart Failure ...

Introduction: The limited accessibility and the lack of adherence explain, in part, the low proportion of heart failure (HF) patients undergoing exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs. Home-based programs showed to be as effective and less costly than centre-based ones and might address those obstacles. Whether the evidence from international studies can be applied to our population is still unclea...

La fuerza de las palabras

Para este trabajo, se definió la siguiente pregunta de partida: “¿Contienen, o no, los discursos pronunciados por el partido Chega en las comemoraciones del Día de la Libertad falacias argumentativas?” Hace 35 años, Jean-François Ravel (1988, p. 11) cuestionaba la severidad con la que la opinión pública tendía entonces a considerar que los periodistas y los hombres (y, diríamos nosotros hoy, mujeres) políticos ...

Europe: an invisible princess?

Introduction: For 75 years, Europe has been a land of freedom, democracy and hope. However, as Steiner (2004) has put it, Europe is above all an idea that many Europeans tend to not acknowledge. According to the author, memory, culture, or the landscape are some of the elements of a European identity always in need of reinventing itself. Riemen (2016) has even called Europe a princess and many of those that try...

Clinical Research in Portugal and the Importance of Case Reports

La fuerza de las palabras

Introducción: Hace 35 años, Jean-François Ravel (1988, p. 11) cuestionaba la severidad con la que la opinión pública tendía entonces a considerar que los periodistas y los hombres (y, diríamos nosotros hoy, mujeres) políticos no eran confiables. Es muy interesante la expresión que utiliza cuando afirma que muchos ciudadanos consideraban a estos dos grupos como teniendo mala fe. Aunque nos interese muchísimo cóm...