Visceral adiposity indices and cardiometabolic risk markers in patients with hypertension.

Objective: Arterial hypertension (AH) is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). We sought to evaluate the association between two adiposity indices (visceral adiposity index [VAI] and lipid accumulation product [LAP]) with traditional markers of cardiometabolic risk in hypertensive patients.

Materials And Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with 1,273 subjects with hypertension treated as outpatients at a university hospital.

Phase angle, muscle mass, and functionality in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Objective: To evaluate the association of phase angle (PA) with clinical and nutritional aspects in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) treated in an outpatient clinic in northeastern Brazil.

Methods: This is a case series study involving adults and the elderly with PD of both genders. We collected data such as stage, severity, and time of diagnosis of the disease, muscle strength, gait speed, and level of physical activity.

Prevalence and factors associated with fat-soluble vitamin deficiency in adolescents.

Background: fat-soluble vitamin deficiency may be a health problem not recognized in children and adolescents.

Objective: to estimate the prevalence and factors associated with the deficiency of vitamins A, D and E among adolescent students from Northeastern Brazil.

Methods: transversal study with adolescents aged 12 to 19 of both genders.

Adiposity, inflammation and fat-soluble vitamins in adolescents.

Objective: Evaluate the association between inflammatory process, adiposity, and vitamins A, D, and E in adolescents, according to gender.

Methods: Cross-sectional study with adolescents aged 12-19 years old of both genders attending public schools in Recife. A questionnaire was used to collect data on socioeconomic level, lifestyle, and food intake of adolescents.

IMMUNE RESPONSE OF SEVERE MALNUTRITION CHILDREN TREATED ACCORDING TO THE PROTOCOL OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION.

The aim of the study was to compare the innate immune system of severely malnourished children admitted to the Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira and treated according to the protocol of the World Health Organization (WHO) at admission and discharge. An experimental study was conducted with 20 children under two years of age. Ten of them had severe malnutrition and ten were a control group.

Nitric oxide monocyte production levels in patients with the hepatosplenic form of schistosomiasis mansoni who underwent splenectomy, ligature of the left gastric vein and auto implantation of spleen tissue in the major omentum.

Purpose: To measure the levels of NO production by monocytes in patients with the hepatosplenic form of Schistosomiasis mansoni who underwent splenectomy, ligature of the left gastric vein and auto implantation of spleen tissue in the major omentum.

Methods: Four groups of volunteers were enrolled in the investigation: G1 - 12 patients with S. mansoni infection in its hepatosplenic form without any kind of treatment (SMH); G2 - 13 SMH patients who underwent medical treatment and portal hypertension decompression splenectomy and ligature of the left gastric vein (SMH/SLGV); G3 - 19 patients similar to the later group, but additionally received auto implantation of spleen morsels in the major omentum (SMH/SLGV/AI); and G4 - 15 individuals with no S.