COVID-19 was characterized by the WHO as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. In Sergipe, northeastern Brazil, the first case was diagnosed on March 14, 2020. This study is part of analyzes on the first year of the pandemic of COVID-19 in Sergipe and aims to analyze, through an ecological study, deaths from the disease in its 75 municipalities, statistically correlating the crude and age-standardized mortality rates w...
Hospitalizations for Sensitive Conditions to Primary Care (ICSAP) is an indicator used to assess the performance of the health system and Primary Care (AB). This study aimed to analyze the trends of these hospitalizations, in the State of Sergipe, from 2010 to 2019, in addition to describing the influence of coverage of AB and the participation of municipalities in the National Program for Improving Access and ...
The incidence and mortality rates for Diabetes Mellitus (DM) have shown progressive growth worldwide. The objective was to evaluate the trend of mortality from DM in the state of Sergipe and its health regions, between the years 2008 and 2018. This is an ecological, descriptive and time series study, with secondary data reported on death from DM, obtained through the Mortality Information System database, made ...
Obesity is a highly prevalent chronic metabolic disease, with an increasing incidence, and is currently approaching epidemic proportions in developing countries. Ouraim was to evaluate the activity levels, quality of life (QoL), clinical parameters, laboratory parameters, and cardiometabolic risk factors afterbariatric surgery (BS).We classified78 patients who underwentBS into four groups, as follows: Those eva...
OBJECTIVE: To determine the metric measurements and to verify the attachment levels of the medial patellofemoral ligament in human cadavers. METHODS: Seventeen knees (eight right and nine left knees) from 10 cadavers (nine male and one female) were dissected and stored in a 10% formaldehyde solution. All of the knees were whole and did not show any macroscopic signs of injuries. RESULTS: The medial patellofemor...