Publications by authors named "Claudio H Amaral"
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- The Brazilian Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (BCTRIMS) initiated a study to assess the prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS) in major cities of Brazil, focusing on Joinville as a representative location.
- The study involved reviewing medical records and inviting potential MS patients for diagnostic evaluations, where the prevalence rate was found to be 13.5 per 100,000 inhabitants, with a notable 66.2% of participants being female.
- The findings suggested that despite a lower-than-expected prevalence rate for MS, factors like internal migration from areas with lower rates might influence these results, calling for further studies in other Southern Brazilian cities without significant migration.
Background Information about long-term outcomes after stroke in developing countries provided by population-based methodologies is scarce. Aim This study aimed to know outcomes five years after a first-ever stroke in Joinville, Brazil. Methods Data were extracted from the Joinville Stroke Registry about all patients who had strokes in Joinville in 2010 and were followed up to 2015.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmong ischemic strokes, cardioembolic (CE) stroke has the worst outcome. We measured the incidence of atrial fibrillation (AF) and non-AF related CE strokes, previous anticoagulant use, and the 90-day functional outcome. Using multiple overlapping sources, we included all CE strokes that occurred in 2015 in Joinville, Brazil.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Temporal trends on the incidence of stroke and its subtypes could help assess on-going public health policies and point to further targets for action among middle- and low-income countries, where the stroke burden is very high. This study aimed at evaluating longitudinal trends of stroke incidence in Joinville, Brazil.
Methods: We ascertained the incidence of all first-ever strokes occurred in 1995, 2005-2006 and 2012-2013, which were extracted from Joinville Stroke Registry, a prospective epidemiological data bank, launched in 1995.