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Hazardous alcohol use among transwomen in a Brazilian city
Kerr-Corrêa, Florence; Pinheiro Júnior, Francisco Marto Leal; Martins, Telma Alves; Costa, Daniel Lucas da Conceição; Macena, Raimunda Hermelinda MaiaThere is a lack of information about alcohol use by transgender women. We estimated the prevalence of dangerous alcohol use in the last 12 months by transgender women, who are known as travestis in Brazil, and we identified the associated risk factors. Three hundred travestis were recruited using Respondent Driving Sampling (RDS). We applied the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). We controlled t...
A eficácia do milnaciprano em pacientes ambulatoriais com transtorno depressivo...
Kerr-Corrêa, Florence
Efficacy of milnacipran in outpatients experiencing major depression non respon...
Fleck, Marcelo P.; Moreno, Ricardo; Andrade, Arthur G.; Bottino, Cássio M. C.; Kerr-Corrêa, FlorenceBACKGROUND: The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of milnacipran in outpatients experiencing severe MDD non-respondent to adequate time and dosing of SSRI therapy. METHODS: A 12 week multi-centric study open study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of milnacipran after a SRRI trial failure. Complete remission (HAMD-17 < 8) was the principal outcome. Secondary outcomes were response (HAM >...
Bipolar affective disorder and gender
Dias, Rodrigo da Silva; Kerr-Corrêa, Florence; Torresan, Ricardo Cezar; Santos, Carlos Henrique R. dosAlthough the bipolar disorder (BD) occurs almost with the same frequency in both genders, the phenomenology and the outcome of the illness differ between them. Nevertheless, there is evidence that women with BD show, more than men, delayed beginning, especially in their fifth decade, more rapid cycling outcome, more depressive episodes, more dysphoric mania, more mixed states and more BD type II. Even so, the f...