Association between vitamin D insufficiency and depressive symptoms, and functional disability in community-dwelling Brazilian older adults: results from ELSI-Brazil study.

Low serum 25(OH)D levels (< 30 nmol/L) have been associated with increased depressive symptom scores over time, and it is believed that functionality may play a mediating role in the relationship between 25(OH)D and depressive symptoms. To comprehend the association between these factors could have significant implications for public health policy. The aim of this study was to verify the association between simultaneous vitamin D insufficiency and depressive symptoms, and functional disability in community-dwelling older adults.

Socioemotional Factors and Cardiovascular Risk: What Is the Relationship in Brazilian Older Adults?

Background And Objectives: Cardiovascular risk is composed of several modifiable factors that cannot be explained only at the individual level. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between socioemotional factors and cardiovascular risk in older adults.

Research Design And Methods: A cross-sectional study with data from The Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (Estudo Longitudinal de Saúde dos Idosos Brasileiros, ELSI-Brazil), population based with data collected between 2015 and 2016.

Is the combination of depression symptoms and multimorbidity associated with the increase of the prevalence of functional disabilities in Brazilian older adults? A cross-sectional study.

Functional disabilities are more prevalent in older adults with multimorbidity and depression. However, few studies have investigated the combination of multimorbidity and depression with functional disability. This study aims to verify whether symptoms of depression and multimorbidity combined increase the prevalence of functional disability in Brazilian older adults.

Overall survival analyses of female malignancies in Southern Brazil during 2008-2017: A closer look at breast, cervical and ovarian cancer.

Background: The aim of this study was to report the overall survival and baseline factors associated with OS for breast, cervical and ovarian cancer in Florianópolis, Southern Brazil, a region with quality-of-life indicators comparable to high-income countries.

Methods: Cohort study was performed from probabilistic record linkage of the Mortality Information System and the Population-based cancer registry of Florianópolis. It was included breasts, cervical and ovarian cancer diagnosis during the period of 2008-2012 with a follow up of 60 months.

Tobacco-related neoplasms: survival analysis and risk of death of population data from Florianópolis, SC.

Objective: To estimate the probability of survival and prognostic factors for tobacco-related neoplasms in a population-based cohort.

Methods: This is a cohort with data from the Population-Based Cancer Registry of Florianópolis, southern Brazil, from 2008 to 2012. The Stata 16.

Palliative Care in Heart Failure: An Integrative Review of Nurse Practice.

Because it is a chronic disease of progressive evolution, heart failure requires nursing attitudes and practices that are articulated with palliative care, implemented in an interdisciplinary team along with patients and their families. Identifying nurses' attitudes and practices in palliative care in cardiology. Integrative literature review.

New Coronavirus: (Re)thinking the care process in Primary Health and Nursing.

Objective: to reflect on the challenges and power of the nursing care process in Primary Health Care in the face of the New Coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brazilian scenario.

Method: reflective study, based on the discursive formulation in the context of COVID-19 in Primary Health Care, based on theoretical foundations and practical effects of neoliberal policy, the care process, and Nursing.

Results: in Brazil, COVID-19, has caused the need for challenges for strengthening primary care in the face of neoliberal policy, but it presents the potential of dialogue with communities and the (re)creation of the nursing care process through solidary collaborative networks.

Depressive symptoms as an independent risk factor for mortality.

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between presence of depressive symptoms and risk of death in older adults residing in a municipality in Southern Brazil.

Methods: Between 2009 and 2014, 1,391 people participated in the EpiFloripa Aging Cohort Study, a population-based longitudinal study. Depressive symptoms were assessed through the Geriatric Depression Scale.

The care of nurses in the Family Health Strategy: practices and theoretical foundation.

Objective: To analyze the practices of nurses working in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in a city of Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and the theoretical foundations that guide them.

Method: Qualitative research through semi-structured interviews with twelve nurses working in eleven FHS units between August and December 2014. Data were organized by hermeneutic-dialectical analysis.

A 26-Year-Old Man From Mexico With Headaches, Dysuria, and a Right Scrotal Mass.

A 26-year-old man with no medical history was admitted to the hospital for evaluation of his change in mental status. He was noted to be agitated at work and had difficulty walking for 2 days before being brought in to the ED by his family. According to his uncle, the patient had been complaining of a headache and pain with urination for approximately 1 week.

Advantages of Cardiopulmonary Ultrasound in Post-Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Tension Pneumothorax.

Tension pneumothorax is a life-threatening condition that frequently occurs in the setting of cardiopulmonary resuscitation as a result of positive pressure ventilation and chest compressions. Developing crepitus due to subcutaneous air can severely limit pleural ultrasound (US) views and hinder the diagnosis of pneumothorax by pleural US. Physicians trained in the use of point-of-care US must be familiar with the subcostal cardiac and inferior vena cava views associated with tension pneumothorax.

The effect of the paraoxonase 1 (PON1) T(-107)C polymorphism on serum PON1 activity in women is dependent on fatty acid intake.

Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) is an enzyme that prevents the peroxidation of lipoprotein and cell membranes. Our hypothesis is that the effect of the PON1 T(-107)C polymorphism on serum PON1 activity in healthy adult women is dependent on their fatty acid intake profile. This study included women (n = 39) who completed a food frequency questionnaire.

An outbreak of norovirus infection in a long-term care facility in Brazil.

Objective: To describe a norovirus outbreak in a Brazilian long-term care facility from July 8 to 29, 2005.

Methods: In the first 48 to 72 hours after onset of symptoms in inpatients and employees, the main infection control strategies were staff education, emphasis on hand washing, implementing contact precautions up to 48-72 hours after resolution of symptoms, complete cleaning of the rooms and exclusion of symptomatic employees from work until 48-72 hours after resolution of their symptoms. Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the norovirus infections were described based on chart review.

[Maternal mortality due to pre-eclampsia/eclampsia in a state in southern Brazil].

Purpose: to identify the profile, tendency and causes of maternal death by pre-eclampsia/eclampsia in Paraná.

Methods: descriptive, transversal cohort study on maternal death by pre-eclampsia/eclampsia from 1997 to 2005. Data were obtained from case studies prepared by Maternal Death Committees that employ the Reproductive Age Mortality Survey Method to examine all the cases of death among women in fertile age.

Interactions of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP(3)) receptors with synthetic poly(ethylene glycol)-linked dimers of IP(3) suggest close spacing of the IP(3)-binding sites.

The distances between the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP(3))-binding sites of tetrameric IP(3) receptors were probed using dimers of IP(3) linked by poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) molecules of differing lengths (1-8 nm). Each of the dimers potently stimulated (45)Ca(2+) release from permeabilized cells expressing predominantly type 1 (SH-SY5Y cells) or type 2 (hepatocytes) IP(3) receptors. The shortest dimers, with PEG linkers of an effective length of 1.