Prevalence and factors associated with probable sarcopenia in southern Brazil: a population-based study.

Introduction: There are few studies on probable sarcopenia in rural areas. This study aims to assess prevalence of probable sarcopenia and its associated factors in older adults living in the rural area of a municipality in southern Brazil.

Methods: This cross-sectional study assessed data from the second wave of the EpiRural Cohort Study.

Vulnerability among rural older adults in southern Brazil: population-based study.

Introduction: The study aimed to estimate the prevalence of vulnerability, and to identify the associated factors of vulnerability among rural community-dwelling older adults living in the municipality of Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional, population-based study of a sample of individuals aged 60 years or older. Data from the first follow-up of the EpiRural Cohort Study (2018-2019) were used.

Further evidences of an emerging stingless bee-yeast symbiosis.

Symbiotic interactions between microorganisms and social insects have been described as crucial for the maintenance of these multitrophic systems, as observed for the stingless bee and the yeast sp. SDBC30G1. The larvae of ingest fungal filaments of sp.

Inequalities in access to integrative and complementary health practices in Brazil: National Health Survey, 2019.

Aim: Integrative and complementary practices (PICs) can be important health care strategies, mainly because they consider the integrality of the person. The objective of this article was to verify the inequality in the access to PICs of the Brazilian population based on data from the National Health Survey (PNS).

Subject And Methods: This is a population-based cross-sectional study, with data from the 2019 PNS.

The Role of Physical Vulnerability in the Association Between Social Activities and Cognitive Performance in Rural Older Adults: A Longitudinal Study.

The aim of this study was to examine the association of social activities with cognitive performance in older adults in the southern area of Brazil, considering the important moderating role of physical vulnerability. A prospective population-based study was conducted in the rural area of Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Self-reported social activities were collected at baseline.