Publications by authors named "Niraldo Santos"
Background: women who have inadequate nutrient intake are more likely to develop a risky pregnancy. The purpose of this study was to determine the presence of eating disorders and its association with anxiety and depression symptomatology in high-risk pregnancies.
Methods: this is a cross-sectional and prospective study conducted at the tertiary university hospital in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
Objective: To describe and determine the association between the occurrence of pica and eating attitudes in women with high-risk pregnancies and to determine the prevalence of pica during pregnancy.
Methods: A cross-sectional and prospective 24-month study was conducted with 913 women with high-risk pregnancies. Structured interviews were carried out and the Eating Attitudes Test was applied.
Background: the occurrence of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) is estimated to be between 2 to 33 cases in every 100,000 inhabitants. The number of patients with PNES reaches 19% of those treated as epileptics. Patients with PNES are treated as if they had intractable epilepsy, with unsatisfactory results even after medication treatment is used to its maximum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To examine whether the self-reported version of the Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (IDS-SR), which is used for major depression, is a reliable tool for screening and assessment of prenatal depression.
Methods: Between June 2006 and July 2008, pregnant women attending a teaching hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, completed the Portuguese version of the IDS-SR. Trained psychologists diagnosed depression via the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders questionnaire, which is based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV.
AIDS incidence and mortality in a hospital-based cohort of HIV-1-seropositive patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy in São Paulo, Brazil.
AIDS Patient Care STDS
September 2003
Article Synopsis
- Brazilian patients with HIV have had free access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) since 1996, leading to a significant decrease in AIDS mortality, although few long-term prognostic studies exist.
- An observational study followed 233 adult HIV-1-infected patients, revealing that asymptomatic patients had a lower mortality risk compared to those with AIDS at the beginning of the study, with 5.2% dying over a mean follow-up of 5.2 years.
- The study found that 90% of survivors were on combined antiretroviral therapy, and women had better outcomes than men, highlighting ongoing public health challenges despite improvements in treatment.