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Perfis de comportamento alimentar e sua relação com o IMC em estudantes do Ensi...
Poinhos, Rui; Oliveira, Bruno; Flora Correia
Determinants of weight and health status perception among Portuguese adults
Rui Poínhos; Flora Correia; Catarina Durão; Bela Franchini; Sara Rodrigues; Cláudia Afonso; Pedro Moreira; Vitor Teixeira; Olívia Pinho; Diana Silva
Metabolic syndrome, adipokines and ghrelin in overweight and obese schoolchildr...
Carla Pedrosa; Bruno M P M Oliveira; Isabel Albuquerque; Carlos Simoes Pereira; Maria Daniel Vaz de Almeida; Flora CorreiaThe aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of a lifestyle intervention programme (nutrition and exercise counselling) on metabolic syndrome (MS) components, adipokines (leptin, adiponectin) and ghrelin levels in overweight children. A total of 61 overweight children aged 7-9 years (>= 85th body mass index (BMI) percentile; 27 boys/34 girls) were randomly assigned and completed a 1-year individual (IT) or ...
Modulation of nutritional state in Parkinsonian patients with bilateral subthal...
Joana Guimaraes; Eduarda Matos; Maria Jose Rosas; Augusta Vieira Coelho; Nuno Borges; Flora Correia; Rui Vaz; Carolina GarrettChronic bilateral subthalamic stimulation (DBS-STN) provides considerable clinical benefits in Parkinson disease patients, with improvement in primary symptoms and resolution of side effects of chronic pharmacological treatment. Apart from its therapeutic effects on PD symptoms, DBS-STN also appears to induce weight gain, which may itself induce critical metabolic disorders and limit the benefits of surgery. No...