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1. Quality of life and socio-demographic factors associated with nutritional risk in Brazilian community-dwelling individuals aged 80 and over: cluster analysis and ensemble methods

   FRONTIERS IN NUTRITION, v.10, article ID 1183058, 13p, 2024

   IntroductionThe aim of the present study was to use cluster analysis and ensemble methods to evaluate the association between quality of life, socio-demographic factors to predict nutritional risk in community-dwelling Brazilians aged 80 and over.MethodsThis cross-sectional study included 104 ind...

2. Higher urea-to-albumin ratio is associated with mortality risk in critically ill COVID-19 patients

   CLINICAL NUTRITION ESPEN, v.56, p.9-12, 2023

   Background: This study aimed to evaluate the ability of the urea-to-albumin ratio (UAR) to predict mortality in critically ill coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. Methods: This retrospective study included adult patients admitted with COVID-19 at two intensive care units (ICUs) at the U...

3. Anthropometric Characterization of Impaired Fetal Growth Risk Factors for and Prognosis of Newborns With Stunting or Wzisting

   JAMA PEDIATRICS, v.169, n.7, article ID e151431, 10p, 2015

   IMPORTANCE Stunting (short length for age) and wasting (low body mass index [BMI] for age) are widely used to assess child nutrition. In contrast, newborns tend to be assessed solely based on their weight. OBJECTIVE WE To use recent international standards for newborn size by gestational age to a...

4. Effects of nutritional supplementation stabilizing muscle mass loss in older patients on hemodiafiltration

   CLINICAL NUTRITION ESPEN, v.58, p.97-103, 2023

   Background & aims: Malnutrition is common in older individuals with end-stage renal disease on maintenance dialysis. Whether nutritional supplementation may improve skeletal muscle mass (SMM) and survival rate in this population is uncertain. We aimed to analyze the effect of a year of nutritiona...

5. Malnutrition in mother-child dyads in the Brazilian National Survey on Child Nutrition (ENANI-2019)

   CADERNOS DE SAUDE PUBLICA, v.39, suppl.2, article ID e00085622, 15p, 2023

   Malnutrition affects billions of individuals worldwide and represents a global health challenge. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of malnutri-tion (undernutrition or overweight) among mother-child dyads in children under 5 years old in Brazil in 2019 and to estimate changes in this pr...

6. Maternal malnutrition during pregnancy among women with sickle cell disease

   REVISTA DA ASSOCIACAO MEDICA BRASILEIRA, v.69, n.12, article ID e20230967, 7p, 2023

   OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to compare the nutritional status and dietary intake of pregnant women with sickle cell disease (SS hemoglobinopathy and SC hemoglobinopathy) to healthy controls and report the maternal and perinatal outcomes.METHODS: This is a prospective, longitudinal ...

7. Exploring the use of the GLIM criteria to diagnose malnutrition in cancer inpatients

   NUTRITION, v.116, article ID 112195, 5p, 2023

   Objectives: The Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria establish a diagnosis of malnutrition based on the presence of at least one phenotypic and one etiologic criterion. This study aimed to assess the concurrent and predictive validity of the GLIM criteria in hospitalized c...

8. Hypertension in the Developing World

   Koch, V. H.. Hypertension in the Developing World. In: . Pediatric Hypertension: Fifth Edition: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING, 2023. p.739-752.

   Hypertension is a major global chronic noncommunicable disease (NCD). Despite continued efforts to establish public policies to ensure surveillance and monitoring, the absolute numbers of patients affected by hypertension in low- and middle-income countries are likely to grow, as economic improve...

9. Medicine of Giant Armadillos (Priodontes maximus)

   Kluyber, D.; Desbiez, A. L. J.. Medicine of Giant Armadillos (Priodontes maximus). In: . Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine Current Therapy: Volume 10, v.10: ELSEVIER, 2022. p.727-736.

   The giant armadillo is vulnerable to extinction and this solitary, rare, nocturnal species can locally disappear without people even knowing it exists. Anthropogenic impacts such as habitat loss, deforestation, fire, and roadkill are the main threats for this species. Recently, wildlife diseases ...

10. Prevalence and genetic diversity of avian haemosporidian parasites in islands within a mega hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon

    PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH, v.122, n.9, p.2065-2077, 2023

    The Brazilian Amazon supports an extremely diverse avifauna and serves as the diversification center for avian malaria parasites in South America. Construction of hydroelectric dams can drive biodiversity loss by creating islands incapable of sustaining the bird communities found in intact forest...