• Eating context and its association with ultra-processed food consumption by British children 

  ONITA, Bianca M.; AZEREDO, Catarina M.; JAIME, Patricia C.; LEVY, Renata B.; RAUBER, Fernanda (ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, LONDON, ENGLAND, 2021)

  This study aimed to investigate the patterns of eating context and its association with ultra-processed food consumption by British children. This cross-sectional study was conducted with a representative sample of UK ...
• Body weight changes in the NutriNet Brasil cohort during the covid-19 pandemic 

  COSTA, Caroline dos Santos; STEELE, Euridice Martinez; LEITE, Maria Alvim; RAUBER, Fernanda; LEVY, Renata Bertazzi; MONTEIRO, Carlos Augusto (REVISTA DE SAUDE PUBLICA, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 2021)

  This study describes body weight changes among participants of the NutriNet Brasil cohort (n = 14,259) during the covid-19 pandemic. We analyzed data reported before the pandemic onset (01/26/2020 to 03/18/2020) and about ...
• Impacts of home cooking methods and appliances on the GHG emissions of food 

  FRANKOWSKA, Angelina; RIVERA, Ximena Schmidt; BRIDLE, Sarah; KLUCZKOVSKI, Alana Marielle Rodrigues Galdino; SILVA, Jacqueline Tereza da; MARTINS, Carla Adriano; RAUBER, Fernanda; LEVY, Renata Bertazzi; COOK, Joanne; REYNOLDS, Christian (SPRINGERNATURE, LONDON, ENGLAND, 2020)

  Limited data on household cooking practices are an obstacle to estimating the contribution of home cooking to climate change. Based on a survey with over 700 respondents, this study estimates GHG emissions associated with ...
• Addition of corticosteroids to local anaesthetics for chronic non-cancer pain injections: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials 

  SHANTHANNA, Harsha; BUSSE, Jason; WANG, Li; KAUSHAL, Alka; HARSHA, Prathiba; SUZUMURA, Erica A.; BHARDWAJ, Varun; ZHOU, Edward; COUBAN, Rachel; PAUL, James; BHANDARI, Mohit; THABANE, Lehana (ELSEVIER SCI LTD, OXFORD, ENGLAND, 2020)

  Background: Despite common use, the benefit of adding steroids to local anaesthetics (SLA) for chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) injections is uncertain. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of English-language ...
• Covid-19 and its impact on immunization programs: reflections from Brazil 

  MATOS, Camila Carvalho de Souza Amorim; BARBIERI, Carolina Luisa Alves; COUTO, Marcia Thereza (REVISTA DE SAUDE PUBLICA, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 2020)

  Due to social distancing guidelines and the displacement of both human and material resources to fight the covid-19 pandemic, individuals seeking healthcare services face certain challenges. Immunization programs have ...
• Cross-cultural adaptation of the NoMAD questionnaire to Brazilian Portuguese 

  LOCH, Ana Paula; FINCH, Tracy; FONSI, Mylva; SOAREZ, Patricia Coelho de (ASSOC MEDICA BRASILEIRA, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 2020)

  BACKGROUND: The Normalization Measure Development (NoMAD) tool is used to determine the contextual determinants in the process of implementing complex health interventions. The aim of this study is to translate and culturally ...
• Orange-Emitting ZnSe:Mn2+ Quantum Dots as Nanoprobes for Macrophages 

  KHAN, Zahid U.; UCHIYAMA, Mayara K.; KHAN, Latif U.; RAMOS-SANCHEZ, Eduardo M.; REIS, Luiza Campos; NAKAMURA, Marcelo; GOTO, Hiro; SOUZA, Ana O. De; ARAKI, Koiti; BRITO, Hermi F.; GIDLUND, Magnus (AMER CHEMICAL SOC, WASHINGTON, USA, 2020)

  The biocompatibility, bionanointeraction, uptake efficiency, and entry pathway of luminescent nanomaterials are the key factors to understand development of an efficient bionanoprobe. The foremost objective of this work ...
• Victims, bullies and bully-victims: prevalence and association with negative health outcomes from a cross-sectional study in Sao Paulo, Brazil 

  LOCH, Ana Paula; ASTOLFI, Roberta Corradi; LEITE, Maria Alvim; PAPA, Cassio Henrique Gomide; RYNGELBLUM, Marcelo; EISNER, Manuel; PERES, Maria Fernanda Tourinho (SPRINGER BASEL AG, BASEL, SWITZERLAND, 2020)

  Objectives To estimate the prevalence of self-reported bullying as victims, bullies or bully-victims among 9th grade adolescents in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil; to investigate association between bullying with negative ...
• Dual Host-Intracellular Parasite Transcriptome of Enucleated Cells Hosting Leishmania amazonensis: Control of Half-Life o Host Cell Transcripts by the Parasite 

  ORIKAZA, Cristina M.; PESSOA, Carina C.; V, Fernanda Paladino; V, Pilar T. Florentino; BARBIERI, Clara L.; GOTO, Hiro; RAMOS-SANCHEZ, Eduardo Milton; SILVEIRA, Jose Franco; RABINOVITCH, Michel; MORTARA, Renato A.; REAL, Fernando (AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY, WASHINGTON, USA, 2020)

  Enucleated cells or cytoplasts (cells whose nucleus is removed in vitro) represent an unexplored biological model for intracellular infection studies due to the abrupt interruption of nuclear processing and new RNA synthesis ...
• Polymorphism in the Promoter Region of theIL18Gene and the Association With Severity on Paracoccidioidomycosis 

  SATO, Paula Keiko; BUSSER, Felipe Delatorre; CARVALHO, Flavia Mendes da Cunha; SANTOS, Alexandra Gomes dos; SADAHIRO, Aya; DIOGO, Constancia Lima; KONO, Adriana Satie Goncalves; MORETTI, Maria Luiza; LUIZ, Olinda do Carmo; SHIKANAI-YASUDA, Maria Aparecida (FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND, 2020)

  Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is an important endemic, systemic disease in Latin America caused byParacoccidioidesspp. This mycosis has been associated with high morbidity and sequels, and its clinical manifestations depend ...
• Declining antibody levels to Trypanosoma cruzi correlate with polymerase chain reaction positivity and electrocardiographic changes in a retrospective cohort of untreated Brazilian blood donors 

  BUSS, Lewis F.; SILVA, Lea Campos de Oliveira-da; MOREIRA, Carlos H. V.; MANULI, Erika R.; SALES, Flavia C.; MORALES, Ingra; GERMANIO, Clara Di; ALMEIDA-NETO, Cesar de; BAKKOUR, Sonia; CONSTABLE, Paul; PINTO-FILHO, Marcelo M.; RIBEIRO, Antonio L.; BUSCH, Michael; SABINO, Ester C. (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO, USA, 2020)

  Author summary Infection with the single-celled parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease) is thought to be lifelong. However, only a third of infected people develop Chagas cardiomyopathy-the main disease manifestation. ...
• Comparison of FDA accelerated vs regular pathway approvals for lung cancer treatments between 2006 and 2018 

  RIBEIRO, Tatiane Bomfim; BUSS, Lewis; WAYANT, Cole; NOBRE, Moacyr Roberto Cuce (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO, USA, 2020)

  Regulatory agencies around the world have been using flexible requirements for approval of new drugs, especially for cancer drugs. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is mostly the first agency to approve new drugs ...
• Desafios para o desenvolvimento de ventiladores alternativos de baixo custo durante a pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil 

  SUZUMURA, Erica Aranha; ZAZULA, Ana Denise; MORIYA, Henrique Takachi; FAIS, Cristina Quemelo Adami; ALVARADO, Alembert Lino; CAVALCANTI, Alexandre Biasi; RODRIGUES, Ricardo Goulart (Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira - AMIB, 2020)

  ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has brought concerns to managers, healthcare professionals, and the general population related to the potential mechanical ventilators’ shortage for severely ill patients. In Brazil, there ...
• Ultra-processed food consumption drives excessive free sugar intake among all age groups in Australia 

  MACHADO, Priscila Pereira; STEELE, Euridice Martinez; LOUZADA, Maria Laura da Costa; LEVY, Renata Bertazzi; RANGAN, Anna; WOODS, Julie; GILL, Timothy; SCRINIS, Gyorgy; MONTEIRO, Carlos Augusto (SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, HEIDELBERG, GERMANY, 2020)

  Objective To analyze the contribution of ultra-processed foods to the intake of free sugars among different age groups in Australia. Methods Dietary intakes of 12,153 participants from the National Nutrition and Physical ...
• Dietary changes in the NutriNet Brasil cohort during the covid-19 pandemic 

  STEELE, Euridice Martinez; RAUBER, Fernanda; COSTA, Caroline dos Santos; LEITE, Maria Alvim; GABE, Kamila Tiemann; LOUZADA, Maria Laura da Costa; LEVY, Renata Bertazzi; MONTEIRO, Carlos Augusto (REVISTA DE SAUDE PUBLICA, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 2020)

  OBJECTIVE: To describe the dietary characteristics of participants in the NutriNet Brasil cohort immediately before and during the covid-19 pandemic. METHODS: Our data stem from an adult cohort created to prospectively ...
• Learning from combination HIV prevention programmes to face COVID-19 emerging pandemic 

  PALACIOS, Ricardo; MATHIAS, Augusto (CORPORACION EDITORA MEDICA VALLE, CALI, COLOMBIA, 2020)

  Before a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 became available, several measures to control COVID-19 pandemic are necessary. Analogously, in the absence of an available vaccine, Combination HIV Prevention Programmes have consolidated ...
• Ultra-processed food consumption and indicators of obesity in the United Kingdom population (2008-2016) 

  RAUBER, Fernanda; STEELE, Euridice Martinez; LOUZADA, Maria Laura Costa; MILLETT, Christopher; MONTEIRO, Carlos Augusto; LEVY, Renata Bertazzi (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO, USA, 2020)

  We examined the association between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and adiposity in a nationally representative sample of the UK adult population. We studied 6,143 participants ( 19 to 96 years, 51.6% female) ...
• Genetic Epidemiology in Latin America: Identifying Strong Genetic Proxies for Complex Disease Risk Factors 

  BONILLA, Carolina; BACCARINI, Lara Novaes (MDPI, BASEL, SWITZERLAND, 2020)

  Epidemiology seeks to determine the causal effects of exposures on outcomes related to the health and wellbeing of populations. Observational studies, one of the most commonly used designs in epidemiology, can be biased ...
• Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Brazil: characterization of centers and profiles from patients treated 

  MACHIN, Rosana; MENDOSA, Douglas; AUGUSTO, Maria Helena Oliva; MONTELEONE, Pedro Augusto Araujo (SOC BRASILEIRA REPRODUCAO ASSISTIDA-SBRA, RIBEIRAO, BRAZIL, 2020)

  Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the application of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in Brazil from the active clinics and the population served considering the changes in the last resolutions of the ...
• Mathematical Modelling Using Predictive Biomarkers for the Outcome of Canine Leishmaniasis upon Chemotherapy 

  GONCALVES, Rafaela de Sousa; PINHO, Flaviane Alves de; DINIS-OLIVEIRA, Ricardo Jorge; AZEVEDO, Rui; GAIFEM, Joana; LARANGEIRA, Daniela Farias; RAMOS-SANCHEZ, Eduardo Milton; GOTO, Hiro; SILVESTRE, Ricardo; BARROUIN-MELO, Stella Maria (MDPI, BASEL, SWITZERLAND, 2020)

  Prediction parameters of possible outcomes of canine leishmaniasis (CanL) therapy might help with therapeutic decisions and animal health care. Here, we aimed to develop a diagnostic method with predictive value by analyzing ...

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