Quality of life of older adults admitted to a Medical Clinic Unit of a Public Hospital in Brazil.

Objective: To evaluate the quality of life of older adults admitted to the Medical Clinic Unit of a public hospital in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to correlate the quality of life with the functionality proposed by the Katz index, and to characterize the clinical and epidemiological profile of the studied population.

Method: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach. Data collection was performed through applying the Nottingham Health Profile instrument and the Katz Index instrument.

Factors associated with metabolic syndrome in older adults: a population-based study.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and clusters of its components and to identify possible associated factors in older adults.

Method: Cross-sectional and population-based study, involving 271 older people. We collected sociodemographic, behavioral, clinical, biochemical, and anthropometric data.

Risk strata and quality of care for the elderly in Primary Health Care.

Objective: to identify patterns of associations between the degree of compliance to laboratory test requests by risk strata and the parameters of quality of care outcomes in primary health care (PHC).

Method: a cross-sectional study involving 108 elderly patients with hypertension and/or diabetes treated in PHC. A semi-structured questionnaire and electronic medical record data were used.

Profile of Effective Donors for Heart Transplantation: Experience of a Brazilian Center.

Background: Brazil's transplant network is a consolidated, worldwide-recognized program, with about 96% of heart transplantations (HTs) financed by its Unified Health System. It is known that the number of HTs has risen in the past few years, but it still does not meet the demand. This study aims to characterize the profile of the heart donors of a Brazilian center and ascertain the factors contributing to the increase in number of HTs.

Night-shift work and cardiovascular risk among employees of a public university.

Objective: To estimate the association between night-shift work and high cardiovascular risk.

Methods: Cross-sectional study carried out with 211 workers of both genders, aged between 30 and 64 years, working on the health campus of a public university in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Night-shift work was defined as a work shift between 7 pm and 7 am, and high cardiovascular risk was calculated based on the Framingham score.

Association between metabolic syndrome and parameters of 24-hour blood pressure ambulatory monitoring.

Objective: To investigate associations between metabolic syndrome (MS) and 24-hour blood pressure parameters as a measure of cardiovascular risk (CVR).

Subjects And Methods: 136 hypertensive subjects, of both sexes, aged between 29 and 83 years were studied. CVR was defined as having at least three of the following conditions: 1) systolic/diastolic blood pressure (BP) ≥ 140/90 mmHg, absence/attenuation of nighttime fall in BP during sleep, pulse pressure (PP) ≥ 53 mmHg; 2) 24-h PP > 53 mmHg, 3) nighttime PP > 53 mmHg, 4) daytime PP > 53 mmHg and 5) nighttime fall in BP during sleep.