Publications by authors named "Suelen Jane Ricardo"
Background: The impact of metabolic syndrome (MetS) on healthcare costs remains unclear in the literature.
Objectives: To determine the impact of MetS on primary healthcare costs of adults, as well as to identify the impact of physical activity and other covariates on this phenomenon.
Design And Setting: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the city of Presidente Prudente, State of São Paulo/Brazil, in 2016.
Background: Research on the economic burden of sedentary behavior and abdominal obesity on health expenses associated with cardiovascular diseases is scarce.
Objective: The objective of this study was to verify whether sedentary behavior, isolated and combined with abdominal obesity, influences the medication expenditure among adults with cardiovascular diseases.
Design And Setting: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the city of President Prudente, State of São Paulo, Brazil in 2018.
Objectives: The aims of the study are to quantify the relationship between productivity loss and healthcare costs among adults with cardiovascular diseases and also to verify whether habitual physical activity (HPA) modulates this relationship.
Methods: Information was obtained about healthcare costs, productivity loss, and HPA.
Results: The sample consisted of 278 adults.
Obesity Increases Costs With Productivity Loss Due to Disability Retirements, Independent of Physical Activity: A Cohort Study.
J Occup Environ Med
May 2020
Objective: Investigate whether obesity is responsible for costs due to productivity loss (PL) in adults, during 30 months of follow-up.
Methods: Absenteeism and disability retirement were considered as PL. For classification of obesity, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) values were considered.