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Extracorporeal Life Support Use in Limited Lung Function: a Narrative Review
Santos Silva, J; Cabral, D; Calvinho, P; Olland, A; Falcoz, PEBackground and objective: In thoracic surgery, different modalities of extracorporeal life support (ECLS) can be used for cardiorespiratory support in complex scenarios. Decades of learning in clinical practice and physiology associated with technological development led to a great variety of ECLS technologies available. Thoracic surgery procedures with difficult or impossible single lung ventilation may still ...
Food choice and food consumption frequency of Cape Verde inhabitants
Cabral, D; Cunha, LM; Almeida, Maria Daniel Vaz deThe knowledge of the food pattern of a population is crucial for establishing nutritional and epidemiological profiles, as well as for controlling the market of foodstuffs and to help in the management of stock of staple foods. This study aims to evaluate food consumption and its association with the underlying motives for consumers' food choices, through the application of a Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) ...
Application of the Food Choice Questionnaire across cultures: Systematic review...
Cunha, LM; Cabral, D; Moura, AP; Almeida, Maria Daniel Vaz deThe Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ) is a 36-item instrument assessing the importance of a number of factors that influence food choice: health, sensory appeal, price, convenience, mood, natural content, weight control, familiarity and ethical concern. The FCQ already counts with applications from over 40 countries and its translation into more than 20 languages. The main objective of this paper is to review the...
Food Choice Questionnaire in an African country - Application and validation in...
Cabral, D; Almeida, Maria Daniel Vaz de; Cunha, LMThe Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ) is a multidimensional measure that simultaneously evaluates the various factors that have an impact on daily food choices. Since its development by Steptoe et al. (1995), this tool has already been used in several countries, but had not yet been applied and validated in an African country. This study aims to evaluate the applicability of FCQ in Cape Verde, as well as to creat...