Publications by authors named "J Carlos Areias"
Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a leading cause of childhood morbidity, with an estimated prevalence of 0.8-1%. However, advances in diagnosis and treatment now allow 90% of childhood CHD patients to survive to adulthood, leading to increased interest in their quality of life (QoL).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of psychoeducation on the quality of life of parents with children with congenital heart defects-Quantitative component.
Child Care Health Dev
January 2024
Purpose: To develop, implement and assess the results of psychoeducation to improve the QoL of parents with CHD newborns.
Methods: Participants were parents of inpatient newborns with the diagnosis of non-syndromic CHD. We conducted a parallel RCT with an allocation ratio of 1:1 (intervention vs.
In the last two decades, safety concerns about general anesthesia (GA) arose from studies documenting brain cell death in various pharmacological conditions and animal models. Nowadays, a thorough characterization of sevoflurane-induced apoptosis in the entire neonatal mouse brain would help identify and further focus on underlying mechanisms. We performed whole-brain mapping of sevoflurane-induced apoptosis in post-natal day (P) 7 mice using tissue clearing and immunohistochemistry.
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- Obesity in prepubertal children may disrupt cardiac rhythms, specifically circadian and ultradian patterns, which has been largely overlooked in research.
- A study involving 316 children showed that overweight/obese kids had a higher frequency of non-dipping blood pressure patterns and lower prevalence of 24-hour mean arterial pressure rhythmicity and heart rate rhythmicity compared to their normal-weight peers.
- The findings indicate potential early signs of cardiovascular issues in obese children, suggesting that further research is necessary to clarify the long-term effects of these disruptions.
Improving the quality of life of parents of patients with congenital abnormalities using psychoeducational interventions: a systematic review.
Qual Life Res
November 2023
Purpose: To identify psychoeducational interventions that target parents of children with congenital abnormalities (CA) and evaluate their impact on quality of life (QoL).
Methods: The search was conducted in six electronic databases, complemented by references of the studies found, studies of evidence synthesis, a manual search of relevant scientific meetings' abstracts and contact with experts. We included primary studies on parents of children with CA that studied psychoeducational interventions versus standard care.