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The Bambuí Cohort Study of Aging: methodology and health profile of participant...
Lima-Costa,Maria Fernanda; Firmo,Josélia O. A.; Uchôa,ElizabethThe cohort study was initiated in 1997 to investigate the incidence and predictors of health outcomes in an elderly population with low socio-economic level. The eligible population consisted of all 1,742 residents in Bambuí, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, aged 60 years and over (1,606 participated). During 10 years of follow-up, 641 participants died and 96 were lost, leading to 13,739 person-years of observation...
Predictors of 10-year hospital use in a community-dwelling population of Brazil...
Macinko,James; Camargos,Vitor; Firmo,Josélia O. A.; Lima-Costa,Maria FernandaWe use data from a population-based cohort of elderly Brazilians to assess predictors of hospitalizations during ten years of follow-up. Participants were 1,448 persons aged 60 years and over at baseline (1997). The outcome was self-reported number of hospitalizations per year. Slightly more than a fifth (23%) experienced no hospitalizations during the 10 year follow-up. About 30% had 1-2 events, 31% had betwee...
Trajectories of cognitive decline over 10 years in a Brazilian elderly populati...
Castro-Costa,Erico; Dewey,Michael E.; Uchôa,Elizabeth; Firmo,Josélia O. A.; Lima-Costa,Maria Fernanda; Stewart,RobertFew population-based studies have examined long term cognitive trajectory, and these studies were conducted in high income countries. We investigated the association of age, gender and education with 10-year cognitive trajectory in a well-defined population of elderly using data from the Bambuí Cohort Study of Aging, in Brazil. Cognition was measured using the Mini- Mental State Examination (MMSE). Cohort membe...
Predictors of 10-year mortality in a population of community-dwelling Brazilian...
Lima-Costa,Maria Fernanda; Peixoto,Sergio Viana; Matos,Divane L.; Firmo,Josélia O. A.; Uchôa,ElizabethWe used data on 1,399 participants aged 60 and over from the Bambuí Cohort Study of Aging to examine predictors of mortality in a socioeconomically disadvantaged population. From 1997 to 2007, 599 participants died and 6.2% were lost to follow-up, leading to 12,415 person-years (pyrs) of observation. The death rate was 48.3 per 1,000 pyrs. Age (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] = 1.40), male gender (HR = 1.80), never ...
An anthropologic study on strategies for addressing health problems among the e...
Uchôa,Elizabeth; Firmo,Josélia O. A.; Lima-Costa,Maria Fernanda; Corin,EllenThis paper explores the contribution of anthropological perspectives for clarifying the mechanisms through which socioeconomic circumstances influence the strategies developed by elderly for addressing their health problems in a small Brazilian city. Interviews with 20 key-informants explored the community's broad perception of the health situation of the elderly. Life histories collected from 30 elderly women ...
Balking blood pressure "control" by older persons of Bambuí, Minas Gerais State...
Nations,Marilyn; Firmo,Josélia O. A.; Lima-Costa,Maria Fernanda; Uchôa,ElizabethThis ethno-epidemiological inquiry aims to comprehend hypertension-related experiences in the elderly population of Bambuí, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It combines ethnographic descriptions with statistical data. The subjective significance of factors associated with adequate arterial pressure control is explored. A baseline cohort of 26 people with hypertension, randomly selected from a total number ...
Energy expenditure through physical activity in a population of community-dwell...
Ramalho,Juciany Rodrigues de Oliveira; Lima-Costa,Maria Fernanda; Firmo,Josélia O. A.; Peixoto,Sérgio VianaThe aim of this study was to estimate physical activity energy expenditure among older adults. The study comprised 1,585 residents in Bambuí, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, aged > 60 years (91% of the town's total elderly), and examined the frequency and duration of 23 types of physical activity among them. Median energy expenditure was 975 MET.min/week (1,195.8 among men and 803.1 among women), declining signi...
Birth cohort differences in hypertension control in a Brazilian population of o...
Firmo,Josélia O. A.; Peixoto,Sérgio Viana; Loyola Filho,Antônio Ignácio de; Uchôa,Elizabeth; Lima-Costa,Maria FernandaWe examined for cohort differences in hypertension control between participants in the Bambuí Cohort Study of Aging of aging born 1916-1926 and 1927-1937. Participants included hypertensive elderly aged 71-81 at baseline (n = 313) and at 11th wave follow up (n = 484). Prevalence of hypertension awareness (70.9% and 81.2%, respectively), median medical appointments in previous 12 months (2 and 3, respectively) a...
Birth cohort differences in the use of medications in a Brazilian population of...
Loyola Filho,Antônio Ignácio de; Firmo,Josélia O. A.; Uchôa,Elizabeth; Lima-Costa,Maria FernandaThis study examined differences in the use of medications in two birth cohorts (born from 1916 to 1926 and from 1927 to 1937) among older elderly in the population-based cohort study in Bambuí, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The study used data on participants who were 71-81 years of age in the baseline survey in 1997 (n = 492) and in the 11th wave, in 2008 (n = 620). The number of medications currently consumed (...
Estudo de base populacional dos fatores associados ao desempenho no Mini Exame ...
Valle,Estevão Alves; Castro-Costa,Érico; Firmo,Josélia O. A.; Uchoa,Elizabeth; Lima-Costa,Maria FernandaO objetivo deste trabalho foi examinar os fatores associados ao desempenho no Mini Exame do Estado Mental (MEEM) entre idosos com baixa escolaridade. Participaram deste estudo transversal 1.558 indivíduos com > 60 anos residentes na cidade de Bambuí, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Foi utilizada a regressão logística ordinal para investigar as associações existentes entre escores do MEEM e características selecionadas. O...