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Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: A pooled analysi...

Background: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. Methods: We used data from 3663 population-based studies with 222 million participants that...

Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents...

Background: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. Methods: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors colla...

The ups and downs of cellular stress: the “MAM hypothesis” for Bipolar Disorder...

Effects of diabetes definition on global surveillance of diabetes prevalence an...

Background Diabetes has been defi ned on the basis of diff erent biomarkers, including fasting plasma glucose (FPG), 2-h plasma glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test (2hOGTT), and HbA1c. We assessed the eff ect of diff erent diagnostic defi nitions on both the population prevalence of diabetes and the classifi cation of previously undiagnosed individuals as having diabetes versus not having diabetes in a po...

Ophthalmic adverse drug reactions to systemic drugs: a systematic review

PURPOSE: To perform a comprehensive and systematic review regarding ophthalmic adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to systemic drugs to: (i) systematically summarize existing evidence, (ii) identify areas, ophthalmic ADRs or drugs that lacked systematization or assessment (namely drugs with original studies characterizing specific ophthalmic ADRs but without causality assessment nor without meta-analysis). METHODS: S...

Papel do ecocardiograma transesofágico na avaliação e orientação terapêutica do...

INTRODUCTION: Ischemic stroke is the leading cause of mortality in Portugal, with around 30 to 50 % of cases being of cardioembolic etiology. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has assumed growing importance in the detection of cardiac sources of embolism. However, there is controversy regarding the implications of TEE findings for the therapeutic approach to patients with ischemic stroke. OBJECTIVES: To an...

Influence of vasopressor agent in septic shock mortality. Results from the Port...

Objective: Guidelines for the adrenergic support of septic shock are controversial. In patients with community-acquired septic shock, we assessed the impact of the choice of vasopressor support on mortality. Design. Cohort, multiple center, observational study. Setting: Seventeen Portuguese intensive care units (ICUs). Patients. All adult patients admitted to a participating ICU between December 2004 and Novemb...

Patient satisfaction in the S. João Health Center from 2002 to 2007

Aims: To know the overall satisfaction of São João Health Center’s patients and their satisfaction with all the other aspects of the service provided by the Health Center. Methods:We used a self administered questionnaire to all the patients that went to São João Health Center during one week (18-22 June 2007). Results: The questionnaire was answered by 78% of the patients (n=359). All the variables of the over...