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Characterizing stakeholders in cancer primary prevention in European countries
Roxo, Luis; Santos, Ana; Girvalaki, Charis; Geantă, Marius; 4P-CAN WP2 study team; Sousa-Uva, MafaldaPublisher Copyright: Copyright © 2025 Roxo, Santos, Girvalaki, Geantă, 4P-CAN WP2 study team and Sousa-Uva.; Objectives: Cancer incidence has been increasing in Europe, with stark disparities between Western and Eastern regions. Cancer primary prevention (CPP) is a cost-effective strategy tackling lifestyle and risk factor exposure, but its implementation goes beyond the actions of the governments. This study a...
Valor preditivo da cintigrafia de perfusão miocárdica ou da ressonância magnéti...
Silva, Cláudia; Lopes, Pedro; Gonçalves, Mariana; Ventosa, António; Calqueiro, João; Freitas, Pedro; Guerreiro, Sara; Brito, João; Abecasis, JoãoIntroduction and objectives: Randomized controlled trials comparing stress cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) suggest similar diagnostic accuracy for detecting obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). There are few data on whether this remains true in routine clinical practice. The aim of this study was to assess clinical and angiographic characteristics of...
Exploring the correlates to depression in elder abuse victims
Santos, Ana; Nunes, Baltazar; Kislaya, Irina; Gil, Ana Paula; Ribeiro, OscarDepression and depressive symptoms have been studied both as risk factors and consequences of elder abuse, even though the most common cross-sectional design of the studies does not allow inferring cause or consequence relationships. This study estimates the proportion of older adults who screened positive for depressive symptoms among those self-reporting elder abuse and examines whether individual characteris...
Sociodemographic disparities in hypertension prevalence
Rodrigues, Ana Paula; Gaio, Vânia; Kislaya, Irina; Graff-Iversen, Sidsel; Cordeiro, Eugénio; Silva, Ana Clara; Namorado, Sónia; Barreto, Marta© 2019 Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is an important cause of death and disability worldwide, and hypertension is responsible for at least 45% of all deaths due to heart disease and 51% of deaths due to stroke. This study aimed to estimate and describe the distribution of prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in the Portuguese population in 2015....
Prevalência de excesso de peso e de obesidade em Portugal
Gaio, Vânia; Antunes, Liliana; Barreto, Marta; Gil, Ana Paula; Kislaya, Irina; Vieira, Sónia Cristina Namorado Gonçalves Calado; Rodrigues, Ana PaulaUID/SOC/04647/2013 SFRH/BPD/107722/2015; Descrever as prevalências de excesso de peso e de obesidade na população adulta residente em Portugal em 2015, obtidas através de medições antropométricas diretas, de acordo com as variáveis sexo, idade, região, nível de escolaridade e situação perante o trabalho. As prevalências de excesso de peso e de obesidade tiveram por base o cálculo do Índice de Massa Corporal (IM...
Is prnt a pseudogene? identification of ram prt in testis and ejaculated sperma...
Pimenta, Jorge; Domingos, Ana; Santos, P.; Marques, Carla C.; Cantante, Cátia; Santos, Ana; Barbas, João P.; Baptista, Maria C.; Horta, António E.M.A hallmark of prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopaties is the conversion of the cellular prion protein (PrPC), expressed by the prion gene (prnp), into an abnormally folded isoform (PrPSc) with amyloid-like features that causes scrapie in sheep among other diseases. prnp together with prnd (which encodes a prion-like protein designated as Doppel), and prnt (that encodes the prion protein testi...