Aims: To evaluate the prevalence of hyperglycemia and associated factors in the elderly population of a municipality in southern Brazil. Methods: Cross-sectional population-based study, carried out with the elderly (≥60 years) living in the city of Tubarão, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, from September 2010 to May 2011. Participants were selected by simple random sampling. The elderly were registered by the C...
Aims: To evaluate the profile of patients undergoing cardiac catheterization and in-hospital complications associated with the procedure. Methods: Cross-sectional analysis of baseline data of a retrospective cohort study conducted in a tertiary care hospital in southern Brazil between 2007 and 2013. The study included patients undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic cardiac catheterization. The data were extracted...