Obesity decreases energy and protein intake in hospitalized COVID-19 patients undergoing continuous positive airway pressure treatment.

Patients with SARS-CoV generally require noninvasive treatments including continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), and appropriate nutritional therapy. Our hypothesis was that a higher body mass index (BMI) would result in greater respiratory difficulties during CPAP treatment and lead to a reduction in energy and protein intake. The study was conducted prospectively and retrospectively in a Brazilian public hospital.

Electronic and transport properties of new carbon nanoribbons with 5-8-5 carbon rings: tuning stability by the edge shape effect.

We predicted the existence of five carbon nanoribbons based on POPGraphene, by first-principles calculations. We investigated the role of the shape of the edges in stability, structural, electronic, and transport properties. Density functional theory (DFT) was implemented to relax the unit cell nanoribbons, and DFT combined with non-equilibrium Greens functions was used to obtain the transport properties of molecular devices.

Enteral nutritional support for patients hospitalized with COVID-19: Results from the first wave in a public hospital.

Objectives: Nutrition has become an important component in treating individuals during the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which is increasingly affecting the world population and causing a collapse in health services. Prolonged hospitalization, including immobilization and catabolism, induces a decrease in body weight and muscle mass that may result in sarcopenia, a condition that impairs respiratory and cardiac function and worsens the prognosis. The present study aimed to analyze enteral nutritional support and the clinical evolution of patients admitted with COVID-19 in Brazil.

[Inadequacy of macro and micronutrients on offer in two full-time public schools in Northeastern Brazil].

The National School Food Program guarantees the food of students in public and philanthropic schools by means of the transfer of funds. During adolescence, which is an important period of nutritional vulnerability, a healthy diet is responsible for the rates of physical growth and changes in body composition. The objective was to analyze the adequacy of macro- and micronutrients provided to adolescents in full-time public schools in northeastern Brazil.

Characteristics of the clinical treatment of Brazilian and French older adults with diabetes.

Objective: The study aimed to compare the drug therapy profile between French older adults with diabetes of the GERODIAB cohort and Brazilian older adults with diabetes assessed in a cross-sectional study conducted in Brazil.

Method: This quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample of 246 Brazilian people aged 65 and over receiving care through the Unified Health System in the city of Fortaleza, Northeastern Brazil, who were compared to a sample of 987 French people aged 70 and over receiving care the Rouen University Center in France.

Results: The French participants treated for type 2 diabetes (T2D) with insulin alone, insulin + oral hypoglycemic agent (OHA) or OHA/GLP-1 analogue were older and presented higher mean values for body mass index, waist circumference and duration of diabetes in years.

Statistical physics of two-temperature rotational energy distributions in stationary plasmas.

Two-temperature rotational energy distributions from rarefied diatomic molecules are very often observed in laboratory plasmas. There has been much debate over the years about the physical meaning of this kind of rotational energy distributions and the associated statistical physics. We show here that under certain reasonable assumptions and constraints the condition of Shannon-Jaynes entropy maximization may produce a two-temperature distribution.

Stability, edge passivation effect, electronic and transport properties of POPGraphene nanoribbons.

POPGraphene is a theoretically predicted 2D carbon allotrope which presents a unit cell with 5-8-5 carbon rings. It presents metallic behavior and has a low diffusion energy barrier, which suggests applications as an anode material in batteries. Motivated by the fact that nanoribbons present different properties to their 2D counterparts, in this work two kinds of POPGraphene nanoribbons were proposed, with (POPGNRH) and without (POPGNR) hydrogen edge passivation, and their electronic and transport properties were investigated, in order to characterize them and verify the influence of hydrogen edge passivation.

Molecular Electronics Including Temperature Effects Based on Dyes Pigments.

In this work we used the Density Functional Theory to study the thermodynamic properties from Brazilein (BZE) and Brazilin (BZI) molecules, main pigments responsible for the red color from Brazil wood. We did a comparison between the two dyes to then know which dye has better resistance to temperature (T ) and external electric field (E) values, aiming their potential to possible applications in solar cells, as excitons trainers. We have found that the BZE molecule becomes less stable after a temperature known as degradation temperature, and therefore enters oxidation state.

The experience of male spouses in the context of breast cancer: a systematic review of the literature.

The purpose of this systematic review is to look into how the experience of husbands of women treated for breast cancer is approached in the literature. Between July and August 2015, the databases of PubMed, SciELO and BIREME were searched for papers published in the period January 2005-July 2015; a final sample of 23 papers was defined. The studies listed several negative and positive aspects of the experience, such as financial difficulties, psychological distress, lack of coping skills among family members, social recognition of the role of caregiver, acquisition of new responsibilities and the maturing of family members.

Maxwell times in higher-order generalized hydrodynamics: Classical fluids, and carriers and phonons in semiconductors.

A family of what can be so-called Maxwell times which arises in the context of higher-order generalized hydrodynamics (HOGH; also called mesoscopic hydrothermodynamics) is evidenced. This is done in the framework of a HOGH built within a statistical formalism in terms of a nonequilibrium statistical ensemble formalism. It consists in a description in terms of the densities of particles and energy and their fluxes of all orders, with the motion described by a set of coupled nonlinear integro-differential equations involving them.

SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY OF MASSETER AND TEMPORAL MUSCLES WITH USE PERCENTAGE WHILE CHEWING ON CANDIDATES FOR GASTROPLASTY.

Background: Surface electromyography identifies changes in the electrical potential of the muscles during each contraction. The percentage of use is a way to treat values enabling comparison between groups.

Aim: To analyze the electrical activity and the percentage of use of masseter and temporal muscles during chewing in candidates for gastric bypass.

TOTAL COST OF HOSPITALIZATION OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING ELECTIVE LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY RELATED TO NUTRITIONAL STATUS.

Background: In the Western world, the population developed an overweight profile. The morbidly obese generate higher cost to the health system. However, there is a gap in this approach with regard to individuals above the eutrofic pattern, who are not considered as morbidly obese.

Impact of the Bowel Management Program on the quality of life in children with fecal incontinence.

Purpose: Evaluate the impact of implementing Bowel Management Program (BMP) on quality of life (QoL) in children with fecal incontinence (FI).

Methods: Children 3-12 years referred to the Children's Treatment Center of FI were included and categorized accordingto the tendency to constipation (dilated colon; group 1) or diarrhea (non-dilated colon; group 2). Evaluations were performed before and after 3 months of BMP implementation.

Higher-order generalized hydrodynamics: Foundations within a nonequilibrium statistical ensemble formalism.

Construction, in the framework of a nonequilibrium statistical ensemble formalism, of a higher-order generalized hydrodynamics, also referred to as mesoscopic hydrothermodynamics, that is, covering phenomena involving motion of fluids displaying variations short in space and fast in time-unrestricted values of Knudsen numbers, is presented. In that way, an approach is provided enabling the coupling and simultaneous treatment of the kinetics and hydrodynamic levels of descriptions. It is based on a complete thermostatistical approach in terms of the densities of matter and energy and their fluxes of all orders covering systems arbitrarily driven away from equilibrium.

Cardiac disease as the presenting feature of mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA: A case report.

Severe cardiac involvement is a common feature of mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS), but occurs only rarely in MPS III (Sanfilippo syndrome). We report herein a case of MPS III-A having cardiac involvement as its first manifestation. Analysis of the gene showed homozygosity for the novel mutation p.

Spectral analysis related to bare-metal and drug-eluting coronary stent implantation.

Background: The autonomic nervous system plays a central role in cardiovascular regulation; sympathetic activation occurs during myocardial ischemia.

Objective: To assess the spectral analysis of heart rate variability during stent implantation, comparing the types of stent.

Methods: This study assessed 61 patients (mean age, 64.

A clinical multicenter study of orofacial features in 26 brazilian patients with different types of mucopolysaccharidosis.

Purpose: This study aimed to describe the orofacial features of 26 unrelated Brazilian patients with mucopolysaccharidosis and to verify any possible associations between these findings and specific types of mucopolysaccharidosis.

Methods: Patients were diagnosed with mucopolysaccharidosis and clinically evaluated. Following consent, a clinical assessment form was completed.

Bite force in patients who are candidates for gastroplasty.

Background: Chewing is composed of structures that must be balanced to achieve optimal function and bite force is one of the components of this function.

Aim: To analyze the bite force of candidates for bariatric surgeries.

Method: Was used surface electromyography Miotool 200/400 (Miotec® , Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil) coupled to bite load cell, SDS1000 sensor, to record the maximum force reading during the execution of the bite.

Exergaming as a strategic tool in the fight against childhood obesity: a systematic review.

Improper use of electronic media is considered a major contributing factor to childhood obesity. However, exergames, a new generation of active games, have made it possible to combine electronic entertainment with physical exercise. The purpose of this systematic review was to analyze the use of exergaming as a strategic tool in the fight against childhood obesity.

Eosinophilic esophagitis in brazilian pediatric patients.

We examined 11 pediatric patients with eosinophilic esophagitis with a tardy diagnosis. The symptoms were initially thought to be related to other diseases, leading to the use of inadequate therapeutic approaches. The patients were between 3 and 17 years old (mean 7.

Measurement of salivary cortisol as a marker of stress in newborns in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Aims: The study was designed to evaluate the newborn (NB) stress response during the inpatient time in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Methods: A quantitative, prospective, observational study was conducted with two NB groups. The first group consisted of 12 NB patients in the neonatal intensive care unit as the experimental group (EG), and the second included 43 NBs who were sent to their own homes and were considered the control group (CG).

Enzyme replacement therapy with galsulfase in 34 children younger than five years of age with MPS VI.

Background: Mucopolysaccharidosis type VI (MPS VI) is a progressive, chronic and multisystem lysosomal storage disease with a wide disease spectrum. Clinical and biochemical improvements have been reported for MPS VI patients on enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) with rhASB (recombinant human arylsulfatase B; galsulfase, Naglazyme®, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.), making early diagnosis and intervention imperative for optimal patient outcomes.

Adductor pollicis muscle thickness: a promising anthropometric parameter for patients with chronic renal failure.

Introduction: Protein-calorie malnutrition is a prevalent disorder in chronic renal failure (CRF) and a major risk factor for increased mortality in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Although many methods have been used to assess malnutrition in CRF, the role of adductor pollicis muscle thickness (APMt) is not established yet.

Aims: This study aimed to analyze the APMt in HD patients and to investigate the correlation between APMt and conventional anthropometric, laboratory, and bioelectrical impedance markers, as well as its association with mortality/morbidity in a period of 12 months of follow-up.

[Demographic, clinical and laboratory data of patients with urinary lithiasis in Fortaleza, Ceará].

Objective: To describe the demographic, clinical and laboratory data of patients with urolithiasis in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.

Patients And Methods: Secondary data were collected from the medical records of 197 patients with urolithiasis, during the period 1996-2006. Clinical evaluation and 24-h urine collection for measurements of urinary volume, creatinine, calcium, phosphorous, uric acid, sodium, potassium and magnesium were performed.