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Slow clinical improvement after treatment initiation in Leishmania/HIV coinfect...
Souza,Guenael Freire de; Biscione,Fernando; Greco,Dirceu Bartolomeu; Rabello,AnaINTRODUCTION: In Brazil there is a large area of overlap of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and HIV infection, which favored a increased incidence of coinfection Leishmania/HIV. METHODS: This study evaluated 65 consecutive patients with VL and their clinical response to treatment in two health care settings in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. RESULTS: At baseline, the clinical picture was similar between both groups, althou...
Prevalence of systemic hypertension in students aged 7 to 14 years in the munic...
Rezende,Dilermando Fazito de; Scarpelli,Ricardo Augusto Baêta; Souza,Guenael Freire de; Costa,José Orleans da; Scarpelli,Adelaide Maria BaêtaOBJECTIVE: To detect the prevalence of systemic hypertension in children and to establish the relation between blood pressure levels and sex, age, ethnicity, weight, and height. METHODS: The prevalence of systemic hypertension and its relation to sex, age, ethnicity, weight, and height were studied in 611 students aged 7 to 14 years out of 19.928 students classified according to age, ethnicity, and sex, who und...