Objetivo: Avaliar o nível de conhecimento nutricional e associação deste com o estado nutricional e o consumo alimentar de hipertensos e/ou diabéticos de uma Unidade Básica de Saúde de Maceió, Alagoas, Brasil. Métodos: Estudo transversal com amostra de indivíduos de idade entre 18 e 59 anos. Foram coletadas informações demográficas, socioeconômicas, antropométricas (índice de massa corporal; circunferência da c...
Objective: Estimating the trend in birth weight and its relationship with determining factors in the state of Alagoas, Brazil. Methods: This is an ecological time series study whose sample was composed of live births in the State of Alagoas from 1998 to 2018. The source was the Information System on Live Births. Data regarding birth weight, maternal sociodemographic characteristics, and pregnancy-related charac...
This study aims to analyze the epidemiological profile of hospitalizations and deaths due to amputations of limbs of people with Diabetes Mellitus in the State of Alagoas. Ecological time series study with data obtained from the SUS Department of Informatics - DATASUS, whose main outcome is the number of admissions for amputation of limbs and deaths of people with Diabetes Mellitus, between 2007 and 2018, with ...
Objective: Investigating the epidemiological profile of families living in the coastal cities in northeastern Brazil, considering that the are registered in the Brazilian Cash Transfer Program (CTP). Methods: Cross-sectional study involving a probabilistic sample of 1,444 representative families of the region. A previously tested semi-structured questionnaire was used, containing questions about socioeconomic, ...
This study aims to analyze the spatial autocorrelation of limb amputations and amputation incidence rates among the municipalities of Alagoas. An ecological study with data from the SUS Department of Informatics, the units of analysis were the municipalities and the amputation rate. Limb amputation cases registered between 2007-2018 were included. The incidence rate was smoothed by the local Bayesian method and...