Risk factors for constant glycemic variability in pregnant women: a case-control study.

Objective: to identify the factors associated with pregnancy that influence constant glycemic variability.

Method: a case-control study with random sampling. The medical records of 417 pregnant women were divided into case group (200 pregnant women with constant glycemic variability) and control group (217 pregnant women without constant glycemic variability).

Judicialization of health arising from prepaid insurance plans and health law: an integrative review.

Objective: To analyze publications regarding judicial demands related to the violation of the rights of the client who uses private health insurance in Brazil.

Method: Integrative review, from September to October 2017, of national character, with complete texts online, in Portuguese and English, published between 2012 and 2017 in the Virtual Health Library portal, excluding studies that were duplicated or with indiscriminate methodology.

Results: The judicial demands were for: medication (32%); ward hospitalization (11%); surgical procedures (9%); orthosis, prothesis and special materials (9%); others (9%); and diagnostic procedures, outpatient service, hospitalization in Intensive Care Units, food formulas and disposable diapers (30%).

The body marked by the arteriovenous fistula: a phenomenological point of view.

Objective: To understand the experience of people with chronic kidney disease using arteriovenous fistula.

Method: Qualitative and exploratory study based on Social Phenomenology, conducted on 30 adults undergoing hemodialysis by using the fistula, interviewed in 2017. The interviews were analyzed according to the empirical-comprehensive model proposed by Amedeo Giorgi.