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Deficit of vitamin B12 in diabetics on metformin: a cross-sectional study

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes affects about 13.3% of the Portuguese population. Metformin was for many years considered first-line pharmacology in diabetes and is currently still recommended as such in diabetics without cardiorenal comorbidities. Up to 30% of diabetics on metformin have vitamin B12 deficiency, which can manifest as potentially irreversible neuropathy, mimicking diabetic neuropathy. Periodic dos...

Endometriosis and Medically Assisted Reproduction

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Portuguese hospitals: vertical and horizontal violence in the context of emerge...

SMED applied to composed cork stoppers

A growing focus among organizations is their flexibility in production. The market pressure for products with large variety in small batches leads organizations to maximize their resources in order to be able to adapt their processes to constant changes. One of the most known barriers in processes flexibility is the equipment changeover time. To reduce this time and thus increase the processes flexibility and t...

Orchestrating an SFC-enabled SSL/TLS traffic processing architecture using MANO

The heterogeneity of 5G requirements commands more complex network architectures, imposing the need for network orchestration. ETSI NFV MANO is the standard which defines a common framework for vendors and operators to integrate their orchestration efforts. In this paper, we evaluated how an ETSI NFV MANO compliant orchestrator (OSM) fares while orchestrating an SFC-enabled SSL/TLS encrypted traffic processing ...

O Grande Médio Oriente

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo relacionar a importância atual da democracia e a implantação de regimes democráticos na região do Norte de África e Médio Oriente, na procura da paz e estabilidade, revisitando a relação entre democracia e geoestratégia decorrente da «iniciativa do Grande Médio Oriente». Tendo por base de investigação as revoltas que eclodiram ao longo de 2011, na designada «Primavera Árabe»...

Facts related to the collection of biological samples in the National Health Ex...

The objective of the National Health Examination Survey (NHES), which corresponds to the Portuguese component of the European Health Examination Survey (EHES), is to collect health data, related risk factors and biological samples of the Portuguese population, using the EHES recommended methodology. These surveys involve an interview, clinical and physical measurements and blood collection. In this context, we ...

Biochemical and genetic evaluation of dyslipidemia in a population sample from ...

Dyslipidemia is an important cardiovascular risk factor and represent a serious public health problem in our society. The causes of dyslipidemia can be environmental, genetic or as a consequence of other conditions. The prevalence of this risk factor has not been determined in our population and a national epidemiologic study of prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, is being conducted. In the scope of this...