Temporal trend of mortality due to Parkinson's disease in older people in Brazil, 2002-2021.

Objective: To describe the epidemiological profile and analyze the temporal trend of deaths due to Parkinson's disease among the elderly in Brazil from 2002 to 2021.

Methods: Descriptive and temporal trend study using data from the Mortality Information System. Annual percent change (APC) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were estimated using the Prais-Winsten regression model.

Self-reported hearing loss and cognitive impairment: a cross-sectional analysis of the EpiFloripa Aging study.

This study aimed to investigate the association between self-reported hearing loss and cognitive impairment in older adults in a city in Southern Brazil. In this cross-sectional, population-based cohort study of older adults, data were collected in the third wave of the EpiFloripa Aging study (2017/2019), which had been performed since 2009 in the city of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State. Cognitive impairment was the dependent variable analyzed by the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), and self-reported hearing loss, which was included in the cohort only in the last wave, was the main exposure variable.

Can internet use reduce the incidence of cognitive impairment? Analysis of the EpiFloripa Aging Cohort Study (2009-2019).

This study aims to estimate the effect of internet use on the incidence of cognitive impairment in older adults. Data are from the EpiFloripa Aging Cohort Study which has been following a population-based sample of older adults (60+) residing in Florianópolis, southern Brazil, for ten years. The outcome was the incidence of cognitive decline in follow-up waves measured by the Mini-Mental State Examination using cutoff points according to education.

Associations of Mutually Exclusive Categories of Physical Activity and Sedentary Time With Metabolic Syndrome in Older Adults: An Isotemporal Substitution Approach.

The aim of this study was to examine, theoretically, how reallocating time between the intensity of mutually exclusive categories of physical activity and sedentary behavior time is associated with metabolic syndrome. Four hundred and six older adults (61.6% women) from the second wave of the EpiFloripa Aging Cohort Study were included in the study (mean age 71.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome due to COVID-19 among children and adolescents in Brazil: profile of deaths and hospital lethality as at Epidemiological Week 38, 2020.

Objective: To describe the profile of deaths and the lethality of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) due to COVID-19 in hospitalized children and adolescents in Brazil.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted with data from the SARS notification forms of children and adolescents (0 to 19 years old) with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19. Notifications with complete progression of SARS due to COVID-19 were included, up to the 38th Epidemiological Week of 2020.

Risk factors associated with mortality in young and long-lived older adults in Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.

This article aims to investigate risk factors associated with mortality in young (< 80 years) and long-lived (≥ 80 years) older adults in Florianópolis. A longitudinal population-based study of 1702 older adults participants of the EpiFloripa Ageing Study. Deaths were identified through searches in the Mortality Information System.

Prevalence and simultaneity of cardiovascular risk factors in elderly participants of a population-based study in southern Brazil.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of simultaneity of cardiovascular risk factors and their association with socio-demographic characteristics in older adults in Southern Brazil.

Methods: Cross-sectional study with 1.553 elderly participants of the EpiFloripa study in Florianópolis-SC.

Association of objectively measured sedentary behavior and physical activity with cardiometabolic risk markers in older adults.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the associations between sedentary behavior and different intensities of physical activity with cardiometabolic risk, and to analyze the simultaneous effect of excess sedentary behavior and recommended levels of physical activity on cardiometabolic risk markers in older adults.

Methods: We conducted a population-based cross-sectional study on a sample of older adults (60+) living in Florianopolis, Brazil. The objectively measured predictors were sedentary time, light physical activity and moderate to vigorous physical activity, and the outcomes were markers of cardiometabolic risk.

Influence of instrumental activities of daily living on the cognitive impairment: EpiFloripa study.

To investigate the influence of instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) on cognitive impairment of the older adults' population in southern Brazil. A longitudinal, population-based and home-based study that evaluates the older adults population (60 years or older) living in the city of Florianópolis, Southern Brazil. The sample at the baseline (2009/2010) was composed by 1,702 older adults.