Publications by authors named "Maria Auxiliadora Nogueira Saad"
Characteristics and Temporal Trends in the Mortality of Different Heart Failure Phenotypes in Primary Care.
Arq Bras Cardiol
August 2021
Article Synopsis
- - The study examined heart failure (HF) classifications in primary care, focusing on prevalence and outcomes among different HF phenotypes in a group of 560 patients aged 45 and older.
- - Out of the participants, 9.1% were diagnosed with HF, with 21.6% having reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), 19.6% having mid-range ejection fraction (HFmrEF), and 58.8% presenting preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
- - After a 5-year follow-up, patients with HFmrEF showed better health outcomes compared to those with HFpEF and HFrEF, indicating that HFmrEF has similar characteristics to HFpEF but
Introduction: Population aging is associated with increased prevalence of cardiovascular diseases that have a significant impact on overall morbidity and mortality. Insulin resistance (IR) and visceral obesity are risk factors for vascular damage and cardiometabolic diseases.
Aims: Estimating the correlation between lipid accumulation product (LAP) and IR in elderly individuals and comparing them to traditional anthropometric indices.
Thyroid nodules (TN) are common in the general population, and the clinical importance of diagnosing thyroid nodules is based on excluding the possibility of thyroid cancer, which occurs in 7-15% of cases. The thyroid gland, owing to its superficial location, is easily accessible via thermography, a noninvasive method of recording body temperature that measures infrared radiation emitted by the body surface. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the temperature differences between benign and malignant TN by using thermography.
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- The study investigates the relationship between sagittal abdominal diameter, visceral obesity, and insulin resistance (IR) in older patients, highlighting how these factors are linked to cardiovascular diseases.
- Conducted with 389 patients aged over 60, the research found that sagittal abdominal diameter was significantly correlated with both overall and visceral obesity measures, as well as with HOMA-IR, regardless of age, sex, diabetes, and hypertension.
- The conclusion suggests that measuring sagittal abdominal diameter is a practical method to assess visceral obesity in older patients, serving as an important indicator of cardiovascular risk.
This study focused on the correlation between neck circumference and other anthropometric measurements and cardiovascular risk factors and insulin resistance in the elderly in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. This was a cross-sectional study in 411 patients seen in primary care. Anthropometric measurements including neck circumference, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and waist-hip ratio (WHR) were recorded.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Metabolic syndrome (MS) is an aggregation of risk factors that increase the incidence of cardiovascular events and diabetes mellitus (DM). Population aging is accompanied by higher prevalence of MS, which varies depending on the population studied and the diagnostic criteria used.
Objective: To determine prevalence of MS in the elderly using four diagnostic criteria and agreement between them.