Relationship among different levels of individual and community social capital with oral health related-quality of life among adolescents.

Aim: To evaluate the relationship of different levels of social capital with oral health-related adolescents' quality of life (OHRQoL).

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study nested in a cohort study started in 2010 with a sample of children 1 to 5 years old from Brazil. Individuals were followed after 10 years, data which was considered in this study (11 to 15 years old).

Alternative to antimicrobial growth promoters in the diets of broilers challenged with subclinical necrotic enteritis.

Necrotic enteritis (NE) is a disease of worldwide distribution, which affects young broilers and causes economic losses on a scale of 6 billion dollars per year. For decades, NE was controlled in poultry flocks by dietary administration of low doses of antimicrobial growth promoters (AGPs). However, an increase in NE incidence was noted after the AGP ban.

PROFILE OF PATIENTS WHO SEEK THE BARIATRIC SURGERY.

Background: Nowadays obesity is a chronic disease considered one of the greatest problems in public healthy. Showing to be effective in a short and long term, the bariatric surgery has emerged as an optional treatment for morbid obesity.

Aim: Identify the profile of patients seeking bariatric surgery.