Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of ty...
Background: Among chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) are the main causes of premature mortality globally. The comprehensive care model focused on these diseases, presents as one of its components, the global cardiovascular risk screening (CVR).Objectives: To estimate cvR stratified by sociodemographic variables, as well as factors associated with moderate/high risk, in the ad...
Objective. Analyze the trend of leprosy indicators in Goiás between 2001 and 2017. Methods. An ecological study of time series was carried out. Leprosy morbidity and operational indicators were calculated from data from the Notifiable Diseases Information System. Prais-Winsten regression was used for trend analysis. Results. There was a trend: decreasing detection rate in the general population (Annual Percenta...
Objective. To analyze temporal trend and spatial distribution of syphilis gestational and congenital syphilis among live-born infants in Goiás State, Brazil, between 2007 and 2017. Methods. Ecological time series and spatial distribution study with data obtained from the Notifiable Diseases Information System. Prais-Winstein Regression was used to analyze the trend of indicators by health macro-region. Descript...
Objective. To estimate the prevalence and factors associated with hypertension in adults from Senador Canedo, Goiás, Brazil, in the year 2016. Methods. Cross-sectional study, with three-stage cluster sampling. A questionnaire was applied and measurements of weight, height, waist circumference, blood pressure and total cholesterol levels were performed. Poisson regression was used to estimate prevalence ratios (...
To evaluate the association between quality of life (QL), perceived stress in patients with vitiligo and compare the perception of stress with noncarriers. The first study was cross-secctional, and the second case-control with 51 patients in outpatient treatment and 51 users of a blood center, matched by sex and age. Questionnaires used were Dermatology Life Quality Index and Perceived Stress Scale. Results: Th...
Objetivo: analizar los errores de inmunización reportados en un Sistema de Información en línea. Método: estudio retrospectivo realizado con datos del Sistema de Información de Vigilancia de Eventos Adversos Posteriores a la Vacunación. Los errores de inmunización se analizaron con respecto a las características demográficas y el proceso de vacunación. Se calcularon las frecuencias y las tasas de incidencia de ...
This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and factors associated with the use of male condoms in adolescents and young adults from urban settlement areas in a city of central-western Brazil. This is a cross-sectional investigation with 105 adolescents and young students aged 12 to 24 years, which used a structured questionnaire. Of the total number of interviewees, 61 (58.1%) had started their sexual life; of...
The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of exposure to mortality risk situations in users of alcohol and other drugs, and analyze its associated factors. A cross-sectional observational study was carried out with individuals with disorders caused by the use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs according to medical diagnosis, who were receiving treatment in private rehabilitation centers and r...
Objectives: to investigate the prevalence and risk behaviors by means of reporting of sexually transmitted diseases among crack users.Method: cross-sectional study carried out with 588 crack users in a referral care unit for the treatment of chemical dependency. Data were collected by means of face-to-face interview and analyzed using Stata statistical software, version 8.0.Results: of the total participants, 1...