Objective: To evaluate the odds ratio of risk factors of sociodemographic and functional capacity of adults with spinal cord injury. Methods: Analytical, cross-sectional, quantitative study accom- plished with a group of 47 people with spinal cord injury in hospitals and 27 in the household. The data were collected through a structured instrument composed of independent variables related to epidemiological and ...
The H. Pylori strains demonstrate a high level of phenotypic and genotypic diversity, the expression of various genes, which confer greater pathogenicity to the bacteria. Most studies have found that the cagE gene is strongly associated with peptic ulcer disease and sites of tyrosine phosphorylation of CagA protei - EPIYA, has not been fully elucidated existing geographical differences. This study aimed to char...
PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence of non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in morbidly obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery and to identify risk factors associated with the disease spectrum. METHODS: Liver biopsy was performed in 60 patients who underwent bariatric surgery, after other causes of liver disease were excluded. Clinical, biochemical and histolo...
In the 1990’s, copro-parasitological questionnaires were conducted with families of poor communities in Fortaleza-CE by the Parasitology Sector of the Pathology and Legal Medicine Department of Universidade Federal do Ceará. Recent studies in the same community show a clear change in intestinal parasitosis prevalence, however, without identifying the nature and importance of the interventions that occurred ther...