Self-care for people with heart failure: the importance of tele-nursing in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: to describe factors of influence of telenursing on naturalistic decision making about self-care of people with heart failure during COVID-19.

Method: this is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, with 16 participants interviewed after hospitalization for decompensated heart failure. The data was collected using audio and video technology and submitted to content analysis, guided by the Situation-Specific Theory of Heart Failure Self-Care.

In-hospital breastfeeding and predictive factors during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A retrospective cohort study - Aleitamento materno hospitalar e fatores preditores durante a pandemia pelo SARS-CoV-2: Coorte retrospectiva.

Purpose: To analyze breastfeeding and the factors that positively influence the first hour of life, during hospitalization, and at discharge during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

Design And Method: This is a retrospective cohort study, with data collected from medical records. Consisting of 225 mother-newborn dyads with deliveries between 2020 and 2021.

Symptoms of Depression in the Postpartum Period: Targeting Maternal Mental Health in the Perinatal Period.

This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the relationship between postpartum depression symptoms, anxiety, and stress during the postpartum period. A total of 101 women were assessed using the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) within 14 days after delivery. Multivariate regression analysis revealed that paid work, tobacco use, and stress symptoms were significantly associated with a higher incidence of postpartum depression symptoms.

Self-care Level of Adults With Arterial Hypertension in Outpatient Follow-up in Brazil: A Cross-sectional Study.

Background: Self-care is essential for minimizing the long-term progression of hypertension (HTN) and improving global health outcomes. However, little is known about the predictors of HTN self-care among adults with HTN in Brazil.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the self-care practices and the association of sociodemographic and clinical factors of adults with HTN in Brazil.

Breast shells for pain and nipple injury prevention: A non-randomized clinical trial.

Objective: This study aimed to analyze the effectiveness of breast shells in preventing pain and nipple injury during breastfeeding.

Method: A non-randomized clinical trial was carried out with blinding to the evaluators of the study results. The study included women with ≥35 weeks of singleton pregnancy, no nipple changes, and a desire to breastfeed.

Cardiovascular risk factors in the elderly: a 10-year follow-up survival analysis.

Aims: Cardiovascular risk factors present a high prevalence and have an impact on the morbimortality of the elderly; however, studies evaluating the impact of cardiovascular risk factors in the elderly have had short follow-up times and have not allowed specific analyses of the effects of these factors in the aged population, including how they affect the survival of the elderly. This study aimed to analyse the survival of elderly individuals living in the community, considering the presence of cardiovascular risk factors.

Methods And Results: A prospective 10-year follow-up was initiated in 2008 with a cohort of 418 elderly people living in a community in Central Brazil.

Lanolin and prenatal health education for prevention of nipple pain and trauma: Randomized clinical trial.

Objective: To investigate the effect of lanolin on nipple pain and trauma in breastfeeding after application of a health education.

Method: Randomized controlled clinical trial, with two arms, open, with 66 participants during prenatal care in the primary health care network in Goiania - Goias, Brazil. Participants were randomized (1:1) using computer generated numbers in both experimental group (EG) and control group (CG).

Association between the macroscopic characteristics of the umbilical cord, high-risk pregnancy and neonatal repercussions.

Objective: To verify the association between the macroscopic characteristics of the umbilical cord, high-risk pregnancy and neonatal repercussions.

Method: A cross-sectional study carried out from January 2012 to January 2015 in a public maternity hospital in Goiânia/GO. The study population consisted of 126 recent puerperal women with diagnosis of high-risk pregnancy, and 139 clinically normal women (control group).

Effects of Anhydrous Lanolin versus Breast Milk Combined with a Breast Shell for the Treatment of Nipple Trauma and Pain During Breastfeeding: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of anhydrous lanolin with the effect of breast milk combined with a breast shell for treatment of nipple trauma and pain during breastfeeding.

Methods: A randomized clinical trial was conducted in a maternity ward in a hospital accredited as a Baby-Friendly Hospital located in the middle-western region of Brazil. Breastfeeding women with obvious nipple trauma were randomized into 2 groups.

Foot length measurements of newborns of high and low risk pregnancies.

Objective: Comparing foot length measurements of newborns in high and low risk pregnancies at a public hospital in Goiânia, GO, Brazil.

Method: A cross-sectional study carried out between April, 2013 and May, 2015, with a sample consisting of 180 newborns; 106 infants of women from high-risk pregnancies and 74 of women from low-risk pregnancies. Data were descriptively analyzed.

[Emergency contraception: knowledge and attitudes of nursing students].

This study aims to identify the knowledge and attitude towards emergency contraception among nursing students from a public university in Goiás--a state in Brazil. A descriptive and analytical research methodology with a quantitative approach was used, applying, from February to May 2011 a questionnaire on the sexual knowledge and attitude of students regarding emergency contraception. 178 students participated in the study.

Macroscopic placental changes associated with fetal and maternal events in diabetes mellitus.

Objectives: The current study sought to identify macroscopic placental changes associated with clinical conditions in women with or without diabetes and their newborns.

Methods: The study population consisted of 62 pregnant women clinically diagnosed with diabetes and 62 healthy women (control group).

Results: Among the subjects with diabetes, 43 women (69.

[Women with atypical, precursor lesions and invasive cervical cancer: behaviors according to the recommendations of the Ministry of Health].

Purpose: To verify whether women with atypias of undetermined significance and precursor lesions or invasive cervical outcomes were referred to Medium Complexity Units (MCU) following the guidelines recommended by the Brazilian Ministry of Health.

Methods: Retrospective study based on the cytopathological outcomes of users of the Unified Health System, seen at Basic Health Assistance Units (BHAU) and referred to MCUs in the municipality of Goiânia, state of Goiás, from 2005 to 2006. We assessed 832 records according to the recommendations of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, as established by the Brazilian Nomenclature for Cervical Cytopathologic Outcomes and Recommended Clinical Practice.

Quantification of mast cells in the uterine cervix of women infected with human immunodeficiency virus.

The objective of the study was to identify mastocytosis in the chorionic epithelium of the uterine cervix in HIV-infected and non-HIV-infected women in autopsy specimens using histochemistry and immunohistochemistry techniques. Sixteen cervical tissue specimens were collected, of which 10 (62.50%) were from HIV-infected women.

Causes of death in older people autopsied.

Studies of causes of death in autopsied older people are not common in Brazil. The aims were to compare demographic data and causes of death in elderly people autopsied in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and to relate causes of death to age, sex, color, and body mass index. Data survey of the autopsy reports came from the Hospital de Clínicas of the Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

[Influence of adequacy of the sample on detection of the precursor lesions of the cervical cancer].

Purpose: to evaluate whether the sample adequacy influences the detection of precursor cervical cancer lesions.

Methods: a transversal study from January 2004 to December 2005. A number of 10,951 results of cervical cytopathological exams from users of the National Health System (Sistema Unico de Saúde, SUS) in Goiânia, Goiás , Brazil, was studied.

Morphological and morphometrical alterations of the osteochondral junction in perinatal necropsies.

Infants who die during the perinatal period could present the following upon examination of the ribs: alterations of the osteochondral junction (OCJ) that could be related to intrauterine growth restriction, placental alterations, maternal disorders, and congenital abnormalities. The aim of this study was to identify the morphological alterations of the OCJ in the autopsied infants and the factors associated with its pathogenesis. The OCJ from 254 infants were sequentially autopsied and analyzed.

Thickness of the cervical epithelium of autopsied patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

Several general pathologic processes that affect the uterine cervix have been described in Brazil and in the world. The aim of the current study was to evaluate morphometrically the cervical epithelium of autopsied patients with AIDS. This is a cross-sectional study of the cervix of 38 women autopsied from 1993 to 2003.

Anatomopathological aspects of neurocysticercosis in autopsied patients.

The aim of this paper was to describe the occurrence and morphology of neurocysticercosis (NCC) in autopsies. We revised 2218 autopsies performed at the School Hospital from Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro, 1970-2003. Data referring to age, gender and color of patients were reported and NCC was microscopically and macroscopically analyzed.

Cardiovascular profile after intravenous injection of Africanized bee venom in awake rats.

The manifestations caused by Africanized bee stings depend on the sensitivity of the victim and the toxicity of the venom. Previous studies in our laboratory have demonstrated cardiac changes and acute tubular necrosis (ATN) in the kidney of rats inoculated with Africanized bee venom (ABV). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the changes in mean arterial pressure (MAP) and heart rate (HR) over a period of 24 h after intravenous injection of ABV in awake rats.