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Multicentre Study Highlighting Clinical Relevance of New High-Throughput Method...
Esteves, F; de Sousa, B; Calderón, EJ; Huang, L; Badura, R; Maltez, F; Bassat, Q; de Armas, Y; Antunes, F; Matos, OPneumocystis jirovecii causes severe interstitial pneumonia (PcP) in immunosuppressed patients. This multicentre study assessed the distribution frequencies of epidemiologically relevant genetic markers of P. jirovecii in different geographic populations from Portugal, the USA, Spain, Cuba and Mozambique, and the relationship between the molecular data and the geographical and clinical information, based on a m...
Age-period-cohort effects in the incidence of hip fractures: political and econ...
Alves, SM; Castiglione, D; Oliveira, CM; de Sousa, B; Pina, MFSummary: An age–period cohort model was fitted to analyse time effects on hip fracture incidence rates by sex (Portugal, 2000–2008). Rates increased exponentially with age (age effect). Incidence rates decreased after 2004 for women and were random for men (period effect). New but comprehensive fluctuations in risk were coincident with major political/economic changes (cohort effect). Introduction: Healthcare i...