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The burden of atherosclerosis in Portugal

Aims: This paper sought to estimate the burden of disease attributable to atherosclerosis in mainland Portugal in 2016. Methods and results: The burden of atherosclerosis was measured in disability-adjusted life years (DALY) following the latest 2010 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) methodology. DALYs were estimated as the sum of years of life lost (YLL) with years lived with disability (YLD). The following clini...

O Problema da Sobreutilização de Recursos e o Projeto Choosing Wisely Portugal ...

A variação da prática clínica é um fenómeno que se encontra bem descrito e que se caracteriza por uma prática clínica utilizando testes diagnósticos e esquemas terapêuticos diversos, em doentes semelhantes na patologia que apresentam e no seu risco basal. A sobreutilização de recursos em saúde caracteriza-se por apresentar um benefício-risco negativo. Infelizmente ambos os fenómenos se verificam em diversos paí...

Choosing Wisely Portugal: a Visão dos Médicos Portugueses

Análise da Revisão Cochrane: Reabilitação Cardíaca Baseada no Exercício na Doen...

A doença coronária, responsável por um terço de todas as mortes, é a causa de morte mais comum em todo o mundo. Todavia, com o decréscimo das taxas de mortalidade associadas a esta patologia, observa-se um número crescente de doentes com a doença, com aumento da necessidade de gestão dos seus sintomas e prognóstico. A reabilitação cardíaca, componente essencial do tratamento contemporâneo da doença arterial cor...

Análise da Revisão Cochrane: Pregabalina no Tratamento da Dor Crónica Moderada ...

Fibromyalgia can be clinically defined by widespread pain lasting for longer than 3 months with tenderness on palpation in 11 or more of 18 specified tender points. Many people with fibromyalgia are significantly disabled, and experience moderate to severe pain for many years, for which conventional analgesics are usually not effective. For these patients treatment options generally include antidepressants like...

Analysis of the Cochrane Review: Pharmacotherapy for Hyperuricemia in Hypertens...

Arterial hypertension is a public health problem that affects approximately 25% of the world's adult population. The association between hypertension and hyperuricemia has been shown on epidemiological and experimental studies. However, it is unclear whether lowering serum uric acid might lower blood pressure. This Cochrane systematic review - a revised edition of a previously published one - intended as primar...

Cost-Effectiveness of Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants for Atrial F...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES:Recently, three novel non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants received approval for reimbursement in Portugal for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF). It is therefore important to evaluate the relative cost-effectiveness of these new oral anticoagulants in Portuguese AF patients. METHODS: A Markov model was used to analyze disease progression over a lifetime hori...

Caffeine exposure and the risk of Parkinson's disease: A systematic review and ...

Several studies conducted worldwide report an inverse association between caffeine/coffee consumption and the risk of developing Parkinson's disease (PD). However, heterogeneity and conflicting results between studies preclude a correct estimation of the strength of this association. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of published epidemiological studies to better estimate the effect of caffeine...

Caffeine intake and dementia: Systematic review and meta-analysis

A recent meta-analysis of 4 studies published up to January 2004 suggests a negative association between coffee consumption and Alzheimer's disease, despite important heterogeneity in methods and results. Several epidemiological studies on this issue have been published since then, warranting an update of the insights on this topic. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies quantif...