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Custo e Carga da Doença de Alzheimer nos Idosos em Portugal
Costa, João; Borges, Margarida; Encarnação, Rosa; Firmino, Horácio; Gonçalves-Pereira, M.; Lindeza, Patrícia; Sampaio, Filipa; Santana, IsabelFunding Information: Financing Support: This work received financial support from Biogen Portugal – Sociedade Farmacêutica Unipessoal Lda.. The funding was not conditional on the nature of the results, which are the sole responsibility of the authors. The study also received scientific support from Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurologia and Grupo de Estudos de Envelhecimento Cerebral e Demência. Publisher Copyright...
Um grande surto da Doença dos Legionários numa cidade industrial em Portugal
George, Francisco; Shivaji, Tara; Pinto, Catia Sousa; Serra, Luis Antonio Oliveira; Valente, João; Albuquerque, Maria JoãoBackground We describe the investigation and control of an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Portugal in October, November and December 2014. Methods Confirmed cases were individuals with pneumonia, laboratory evidence of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 and exposure, by residence, occupational or leisure to the affected municipalities. 49 possible sources were reduced to four potential sources, all indust...
Epidemiologia da demência e da doença de Alzheimer em Portugal
Santana, Isabel; Farinha, Filipa; Freitas, Sandra; Rodrigues, Vítor; Carvalho, ÁlvaroIntroduction: The incidence and prevalence of global dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) increase with age, almost doubling every five years after the sixth decade of life. Demographic aging is a reality in Portugal, being expectable that the number of dementia cases also increases. Even so, dementia-epidemiological data in Portugal is scarce and cost-of-illness studies are almost inexistent. Our aims were to...