Introdução: As alterações da função tiroideia são prevalentes na população jovem-adulta e podem resultar numa clínica fruste ou numa clínica mais evidente com sintomatologia diversa que também ocorre muitas vezes em doenças psiquiátricas. Descrição do caso: Jovem de 23 anos recorreu ao serviço de urgência com quadro de palpitações que se instalou de forma repentina em repouso. Referiu episódios semelhantes no p...
Perinatal loss disrupts the journey to parenthood, halting dreams and expectations surrounding the child and family. This study presents a systematic review of qualitative research on parental grief following perinatal loss, exploring emotional responses, gender differences, relational impacts, and the role of healthcare professionals. Following PRISMA guidelines, searches in Web of Science and Scopus identifie...
Introdução: A esteatose hepática é uma condição frequente, caracterizada pela acumulação anormal de gordura nos hepatócitos, associando-se frequentemente a fatores metabólicos como obesidade, dislipidemia e estilo de vida sedentário. O estadio mais grave, a esteatose hepática não alcoólica, pode ter progressão para cirrose e carcinoma hepatocelular. Devido à elevada prevalência e à natureza silenciosa numa fase...
In Portuguese, the Imperfect and the Conditional are grammatical tenses that can have different values associated with them. The Imperfect can be temporal, aspectual and modal, and the Conditional can be temporal and modal. Thus, in Portuguese, they seem to be able to occur in the same contexts and, in some of these contexts, they appear with exactly the same readings. We will try to understand what distingui...
The application of whole-exome sequencing (WES) for diagnostic purposes has the potential to unravel secondary findings unrelated with the primary reason of testing. Some of those might be of high clinical utility and comprise disease-causing variants in genes, related to life-threatening and clinically actionable diseases. Clarifying the allelic frequencies of such variants in specific populations is a crucial...
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The energetic green transition is increasing the demand for lithium (Li) exploitation. However, the Li supply faces challenges like limited reserves and environmental concerns. This pioneer study aims to characterize the Li concentrations in the region around the Barroso mine, in Portugal, by collecting and analyzing samples of cabbage, potato, drinking and irrigation water and soil from two nearby sites, and p...
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Article 206 of the 2022 State Budget Law provides for hiring doctors without a specialty to perform functions intended for specialized doctors in General and Family Medicine, with a harmful impact of this measure being foreseeable on the Portuguese health system and the health of the Portuguese population. Family doctors create a therapeutic alliance in the doctor-patient relationship and take care of the healt...
This study addresses the effect of various cooking approaches on total Hg (HgT) and total Se (SeT) contents in three predatory fish species. For this purpose, samples of swordfish, dogfish, and tuna from regular French (fish) markets were cooked by boiling, steaming, grilling, and frying, respectively. The levels of HgT and SeT in raw and cooked samples were determined by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectro...