Publications by authors named "Teresa C A Vieira"
Objective: The aim of this study was to validate the content of a questionnaire in order to assess the attitudes and practices in childcare consultations, knowledge on overweight and obesity, their risk factors, and barriers in addressing the issue by pediatricians and family physicians.
Methods: The Delphi technique was used, with the objective of reaching a consensus on a certain subject, through experts' opinions. The content validity index (CVI) of each item, axis, and questionnaire was calculated.
Background: Type 1 diabetes patients have a higher risk of developing hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia during physical activity, which may compromise their safety during exercise but results regarding the exercise capacity of patients with type 1 DM when compared to control subjects have been contradictory.
Aim: To evaluate if type 1 diabetes affects the capacity of adolescents to exercise.
Methods: The study enrolled 37 adolescents in stage 2-4 of the Tanner scale, aged from 10 to 14 years, 21 with type 1 diabetes and 16 without any chronic diseases.
Objective: To investigate whether patients with thyrotoxic hypokalaemic periodic paralysis (THPP) have the same molecular defect in the calcium channel gene described in familial hypokalaemic periodic paralysis (FHPP), as the symptoms of both diseases are comparable, we analysed, in patients with THPP, the presence of mutations R528H, R1239H and R1239G on the S4 voltage-sensing transmembrane segment of the alpha1 subunit of the calcium channel gene (Cav1.1).
Design And Patients: Genomic DNA was extracted from peripheral blood from 14 patients with THPP, 13 sporadic cases and one with a family history.