Publications by authors named "Cleuciane Lima de Melo"
Objective: to analyze the validity of self-reported systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) in the adult population of Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil.
Methods: this was a study of diagnostic accuracy with 576 adults aged 18 to 59 years; accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and positive and negative predictive values were calculated in order to build the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve.
Results: the prevalence rates of measured SAH (gold standard) and self-reported SAH were 19.