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Mapping Dental Care for Children and Adolescents With Rare Diseases: A Brazilian Multicentre Study
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives To describe the landscape of dental care provided by specialised centres for children and adolescents with rare diseases (RDs) in the state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. Methods A retrospective cross‐sectional study was conducted involving individuals aged 0–18 years with a confirmed diagnosis of a RD who received care at ...
Heloisa Vieira Prado +21 more
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PEC InnovationObjective: Health literacy is associated with many patient outcomes. This study sought to determine the association between a person's level of health literacy and their knowledge about Chagas disease. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted with
Talia L. Caridi +6 more
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Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background International economic evaluations have not found convincing evidence that the application of fluoride varnish (FV) in preschool children is a cost‐effective anti‐caries measure, and there is a lack of economic evaluations of FV in the Brazilian context.
Izabel Monteiro Dhyppolito +3 more
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Epidemiologia e Serviços de SaúdeObjective To assess whether hospitalizations due to stroke were associated with Chagas disease and the Chagas disease vulnerability index in the state of Minas Gerais. Methods This was a population-based analytical observational study.
Ana Clara de Jesus Santos +7 more
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Chagas disease and systemic autoimmune diseases among Bolivian patients in Switzerland
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2018 BACKGROUND Chronic cardiomyopathy occurs in 20-40% of the patients with Chagas disease. Autoimmune mechanisms may contribute to its pathogenesis. We diagnosed several cases of systemic autoimmune diseases among Bolivian migrants in Geneva with a high ...
Yves Jackson +4 more
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Increase of reactive oxygen species by desferrioxamine during experimental Chagas' disease. [PDF]
, 2010 Oxidative stress is common in inflammatory processes associated with many diseases including Chagas' disease. The aim of the present study was to evaluate, in a murine model, biomarkers of oxidative stress together with components of the antioxidant ...
Arantes, Jerusa Marilda +10 more
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Fluoride Varnish for Caries Prevention in Preschoolers: An Overview of Reviews
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives This study aimed to overview the available evidence from systematic reviews (SRs) on the effects of fluoride varnish (FV) for caries prevention in preschoolers. Methods Systematic reviews, with or without meta‐analyses, of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi‐randomised trials evaluating the use of FV in preschoolers to ...
Flávia Macedo Couto +5 more
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An epidemiological approach to study congenital Chagas' disease
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 1994 Transplacental transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi has been the focus of much attention in highly endemic areas in South America. Frequency of congenital transmission and factors associated with risk of it are still not well understood.
Ana Lúcia S. S. de Andrade +2 more
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Mapping of Chagas disease research: analysis of publications in the period between 1940 and 2009
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2011 INTRODUCTION: Publications are often used as a measure of success in research work. Chagas disease occurs in Central and Southern America. However, during the past years, the disease has been occurring outside Latin America due to migration from endemic ...
José Manuel Ramos +3 more
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Chemotherapy of Chagas' disease: state of the art and perspectives for the development of new drugs [PDF]
, 2009 Neglected diseases are a major global cause of illness, long-term disability and death. Chagas' disease is a parasitic infection widely distributed throughout Latin America, with devastating consequences in terms of human morbidity and mortality.
ANDRICOPULO, Adriano Defini +5 more
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