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    • Cancer incidence in eighteen cities of the State of São Paulo, Brazil 

      Andreoni, Gisela I; Veneziano, Donaldo B; Giannotti Filho, Osvaldo [UNIFESP]; Marigo, Carlos; Mirra, Antonio Pedro; Fonseca, Luiz Augusto M (Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo, 2001-08-01)
      OBJECTIVE: As in Brazil cancer registries are mostly based on large cities, there are no estimates per state or per region and information on the disease incidence in the vast in-land areas is very scarce. An incidence ...

    • Candidemia em hospital terciário do nordeste do Brasil 

      Hinrichsen, Sylvia Lemos; Falcão, Érika; Vilella, Tatiana Aguiar Santos; Colombo, Arnaldo Lopes [UNIFESP]; Nucci, Marcio; Moura, Líbia; Rêgo, Leandro; Lira, Conceição; Almeida, Luciano (Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT, 2008-08-01)
      We conducted a prospective, observational, laboratory-based study on candidemia to investigate the incidence of candidemia, species distribution and clinical conditions between September 2003 and March 2004 in a private ...

    • Cesáreas: um perfil epidêmico 

      Moraes, Maria Sílvia De; Goldenberg, Paulete [UNIFESP] (Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2001-06-01)
      This study characterizes cesarean rates among women giving birth in São José do Rio Preto in 1992. Household interviews were conducted with 553 women selected through records on live births. Estimated incidence of cesarean ...

    • Deficiência da Lipase Ácida Lisossômica (LAL-D): uma causa subdiagnosticada de dislipidemia e alterações da função hepática 

      Brasil, Zenia [UNIFESP] (Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2020-06-25)
      Lysosomal acid lipase (LAL) is the enzyme encoded by the LIPA gene; deficiency of this enzyme leads to a congenital lysosomal disorder called Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency (LAL-D). LAL is essential for lipid metabolism ...

    • Female double incontinence: prevalence, incidence, and risk factors from the SABE (Health, Wellbeing and Aging) study 

      Yuaso, Denise R. [UNIFESP]; Santos, Jair L. F.; Castro, Rodrigo A. [UNIFESP]; Duarte, Yeda A. O.; Girao, Manoel J. B. C. [UNIFESP]; Berghmans, Bary; Tamanini, Jose Tadeu N. [UNIFESP] (Springer London Ltd, 2018)
      Introduction and hypothesis Double Incontinence (DI) is incontinence of urine and stool and is an extreme manifestation of pelvic floor dysfunction. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence and incidence ...

    • Incidence of metabolic syndrome and related diseases in the Khisêdjê indigenous people of the Xingu, Central Brazil, from 1999-2000 to 2010-2011 

      Mazzucchetti, Lalucha; Galvão, Patrícia Paiva de Oliveira; Tsutsui, Mario Luiz da Silva; Santos, Kennedy Maia dos; Rodrigues, Douglas Antônio; Mendonça, Sofia Beatriz; Gimeno, Suely Godoy Agostinho [UNIFESP] (Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2014-11-01)
      The aim of this study was to identify the incidence of metabolic syndrome and related diseases in the Khisêdjê population living in the Xingu Indigenous Park, Mato Grosso State, Brazil, from 1999‐2000 to 2010‐2011. The ...

    • Incidência de úlcera por pressão em pacientes neurocirúrgicos de hospital universitário 

      Diccini, Solange [UNIFESP]; Camaduro, Camila [UNIFESP]; Iida, Luciana Inaba Senyer [UNIFESP] (Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2009-01-01)
      OBJECTIVE: To identify the incidence of pressure ulcer in the preoperative and postoperative period in neurosurgical patients and to describe preventive measures adopted by nursing staff. METHODS: A prospective study was ...

    • Incontinência fecal: incidência e fatores de risco – resultados do Estudo SABE (Saúde, bem-estar e envelhecimento) 

      Franceschi Junior, Osvaldo [UNIFESP] (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, 2021-11-25)
      Objetivos: Estimar a incidência de incontinência fecal (IF) e identificar fatores de risco em uma coorte de idosos no Brasil. Métodos: Em 2006, foram selecionados indivíduos com idade ≥ 60 anos no Estudo SABE (Saúde, ...

    • Malária no Estado do Amapá, Brasil, de 1970 a 2003: trajetória e controle 

      Cardoso, Rosilene Ferreira [UNIFESP]; Goldenberg, Paulete [UNIFESP] (Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2007-06-01)
      The present study aims to describe malaria occurrence from 1970 to 2003 in the State of Amapá, Brazil. With positive films obtained from health agencies, temporal series on the annual parasite incidence - API (per 1,000 ...

    • Método de captura e recaptura: nova metodologia para pesquisas epidemiológicas 

      Dunn, John [UNIFESP]; Andreoli, Sergio Baxter [UNIFESP] (Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo, 1994-12-01)
      Although capture-recapture method is not new, their use in epidemiological studies has so far been limited. The method was developed by animal ecologists to estimate the size of various species populations, but in recent ...