Time perspective and associated factors in Brazilians living with HIV.

Background: a person's time perspective can be an important variable for the understanding of behaviours that interfere with the quality of life of people living with HIV.

Aims: to analyse the relationships between socio-demographic, clinical, and behavioural variables and the time perspective in Brazilians living with HIV.

Methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted with a convenience sample of 281 people living with HIV in Brazil.

Anthropometric indicators of obesity as screening tools for high blood pressure in the elderly.

The study objectives were to investigate the indicators of obesity most associated with high blood pressure in community-dwelling elderly and identify among these which one best discriminates high blood pressure. This is an epidemiological, population, cross-sectional and home-based study of elderly people (≥ 60 years, n = 316) residing in northeastern Brazil. The results showed that the body mass index and the body adiposity index were the indicators more closely associated with high blood pressure in both sexes.