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Use of the Coding Causes of Death in HIV in the classification of deaths in Nor...
Alves,Diana Neves; Bresani-Salvi,Cristiane Campello; Batista,Joanna d’Arc Lyra; Ximenes,Ricardo Arraes de Alencar; Miranda-Filho,Demócrito de BarrosABSTRACT OBJECTIVE Describe the coding process of death causes for people living with HIV/AIDS, and classify deaths as related or unrelated to immunodeficiency by applying the Coding Causes of Death in HIV (CoDe) system. METHODS A cross-sectional study that codifies and classifies the causes of deaths occurring in a cohort of 2,372 people living with HIV/AIDS, monitored between 2007 and 2012, in two specialized...
Assessment of intima-media complex in carotid, femoral and right subclavian art...
Godoi,Emmanuelle Tenório Albuquerque Madruga; Brandt,Carlos Teixeira; Godoi,Jocelene Tenório Albuquerque Madruga; Melo,Heloísa Ramos Lacerda deObjective To compare automatic and manual measurements of intima-media complex (IMC) in common carotid, common femoral and right subclavian arteries of HIV-infected patients in relation to a control group, taking into consideration the classical risk factors for atherosclerosis. Materials and Methods The study sample comprised 70 HIV-infected patients and 70 non-HIV-infected controls paired according sex and ag...
Hepatotoxicity induced by antituberculosis drugs among patients coinfected with...
Lima,Maria de Fátima Silva de; Melo,Heloísa Ramos Lacerda deHepatotoxicity due to antituberculosis drugs limits treatment in patients coinfected with HIV and tuberculosis. We conducted a case-control study to identify risk factors for hepatotoxicity among patients coinfected with tuberculosis and HIV in two hospitals in Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil. The sample consisted of 57 patients (36.5% of the total) who developed hepatotoxicity and a control group of 99 patien...
Body mass index in individuals with HIV infection and factors associated with t...
Mariz,Carolline de Araújo; Albuquerque,Maria de Fátima P. Militão de; Ximenes,Ricardo Arraes de Alencar; Melo,Heloísa Ramos Lacerda deA cross-sectional study was conducted using body mass index (BMI) to estimate the prevalence of thinness and overweight/obesity and associated factors in 2,018 individuals with HIV/AIDS attending health services referral centers. The dependent variable was classified as thinness, overweight/obesity and eutrophy. Multinomial logistic regression analyses were performed considering eutrophy as the reference level....
Characteristics of pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV seropositive and seronegative ...
Liberato,Isabella Ramos de Oliveira; Albuquerque,Maria de Fatima P. Militão de; Campelo,Antônio Roberto Leite; Melo,Heloísa Ramos Lacerda deThe aim of this study was to analyse the clinical, epidemiological and bacteriological features present in 60 pulmonary tuberculosis patients who were also infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and to compare these with 120 TB patients who were not infected with HIV. The patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and HIV coinfection were mostly male (p = 0.001), showed a higher frequency of weight loss >10...