Funding Information: Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN (b-on). This research was supported by national funds through the Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e Tecnologia (FCT), I.P., under the following grants: DSAIPA/DS/0117/2020, UIDB/00297/2020 ( https://doi.org/ https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/00297/2020 ) and UIDP/00297/2020 ( https://doi.org/ https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDP/00297/2020 ). Publisher C...
Funding Information: This research was supported by Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e a Tecnologia (FCT), grant numbers DSAIPA/DS/0117/2020 and RNEM-LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-022125 (Portuguese Mass Spectrometry Network). Centro de Qu\u00EDmica Estrutural is a Research Unit funded by FCT through projects UIDB/00100/2020 and UIDP/00100/2020. Institute of Molecular Sciences is an Associate Laboratory funded by ...
Funding Information: Project conceptualization, the development of the methodology adopted, and research activities were carried out as a set of work tasks conducted by M.I.G., A.M.B. and A.R. Data processing and analysis were performed by M.I.G., A.M.B., A.R. and I.P. All team members contributed to the preparation, writing, review, and editing of this paper. The project received funding from several entities....
Background and Objectives: Given the wide spectrum of clinical and laboratory manifestations of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), it is imperative to identify potential contributing factors to patients' outcomes. However, a limited number of studies have assessed how the different waves affected the progression of the disease, more so in Portugal. Therefore, our main purpose was to study the clinical and...
Publisher Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.; Background: COVID-19 caused a pandemic, due to its ease of transmission and high number of infections. The evolution of the pandemic and its consequences for the mortality and morbidity of populations, especially the elderly, generated several scientific studies and many research projects. Among them, we have the Predictive Models of COVID-19 Outcomes for Higher Risk...
Funding Information: This study is inserted in the project Predictive Models of COVID-19 Outcomes for Higher Risk Patients Towards a Precision Medicine (PREMO), supported by Fundação para Publisher Copyright: © 2023 IEEE.; Besides the pandemic being over, new SARS-CoV-2 lineages, and sub-lineages, still pose risks to global health. Thus, in this preliminary study, to better understand the characteristics of COV...
Funding Information: Ana Luisa Papoila work is partially financed by national funds through FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia under the project UIDB/00006/2020. Iola Pinto work is funded by national funds through the FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the scope of the projects UIDB/00297/2020 and UIDP/00297/2020 (Center for Mathematics and Applications). Publisher Copyright: © 2023...
Introduction: Kidney transplant patients (KT) are at high risk for severe COVID-19 and presented attenuated antibody responses to vaccination when compared to immunocompetent individuals. Torquetenovirus (TTV) has recently gained attention as a potential surrogate marker of the net state of immunosuppression. We evaluated the association between pre-vaccination TTV viral load and anti-spike total antibody respo...
Funding: HH and DR had received a Ph.D. grant from Jmellosaude. DH was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre program. The present publication was funded by Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia, IP national support through CHRC (UIDP/04923/2020).; Tinnitus is a phantom sound perceived in the absence of external acoustic stimulation. It is described in a variety of ways (...
Copyright © 2018 Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.; INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: Selecting patients for heart transplantation is challenging. We aimed to identify the most important risk predictors in heart failure and an approach to optimize the selection of candidates for heart transplantation. METHODS: Ambulatory patients followed in our center with sym...