Association of 24-h movement behaviors during Covid-19 pandemic with spinal musculoskeletal disorders in undergraduate students: a cross-sectional study.

Background And Aims: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are an important health problem, and the Covid-19 pandemic affected several lifestyle and health aspects worldwide, including moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), sedentary behavior (SB) and sleep time, which compose the 24-h movement guidelines (24-hMG). It is unclear whether meeting 24-hMG during pandemic have been associated with MSD in adult population and this study aimed to analyze the association of meeting 24-hMG with spinal MSD in undergraduate students during Covid-19 pandemic.

Methods: A sample of 71 undergraduate students were assessed (24.

Associations between symptoms of depression and heart rate variability: An exploratory study.

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with decreased heart rate variability (HRV), a predictor of cardiovascular morbidity by many, but not all studies. This inconsistency could be due to the association of HRV with specific depressive symptoms. Here, we investigated the association of HRV parameters with components of depressive symptoms from 120 MDD patients, at baseline of a published trial comparing the effect of sertraline to transcranial direct current stimulation.

Income inequalities and stroke mortality trends in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1996-2011.

Background: It is not clear the relationship between stroke mortality trends and socioeconomic inequalities in low- and middle-income countries.

Aims: We compared differences of trends in stroke mortality by socioeconomic status in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Methods: We analyzed the intra-urban distribution of stroke death rates from 1996 to 2011 for persons aged 35-74 years old according to income using joinpoint regression.

Serotype distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from patients with invasive pneumococcal disease in Brazil before and after ten-pneumococcal conjugate vaccine implementation.

The ten-pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV10) was introduced into the national immunization program for childhood vaccination schedules by the Brazilian Health Public Service in March 2010. The aim of this study was to compare Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype distribution, antibiotic resistance patterns, and potential coverage before (January 2006-June 2010) and after (July 2010-September 2012) PCV10 introduction. The incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), patient demographics, and disease characteristics were recorded.

Race, gender and stroke subtypes mortality in São Paulo, Brazil.

Stroke mortality rates have a discrepant distribution according to socioeconomic variables as social exclusion in Brazil. Recently, data from race has been available from the official health statistics considering five categories: White, Mixed, Black, Asian and Native. We addressed in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, an analysis of cerebrovascular mortality according to race (excluding Asian and Native due to small number of events) and gender during 1999-2001 for people aged 30 to 79 years-old.

[Mortality trends in ischemic heart disease in São Paulo State: 1970-1989].

Purpose: Description of proportional mortality and deaths rates by coronary heart disease (CHD) in adult population (20 years of age or older) of São Paulo State, Brazil.

Methods: The deaths were obtained from the statistical official bureau. The population data were based in the Federal Census (1970, 1980 and 1991).

[Family with predominance of cardiac involvement in Steinert's disease].

We report an affected family (mother and two children) with prominent cardiac form as reflected by the mother, 49, with neuromuscular signs (muscular atrophy os face, neck and distally in the extremities) who received an implantable pacemaker after 2 consecutive episodes of syncope and baseline EKG with P-R of 250 ms, QRS of 130 ms (LBBB) and conduction system intervals displaying overt widening (AH of 140 ms with a ERP of junction tissue of 590 ms, and Wenckebach point of 115 bpm; and HV of 80 ms before and 95 ms after pharmacological stress with procainamide). As long as its mode of inheritance is autosomal dominant, the cardiovascular examination of her two affected siblings (F1 and F2) revealed: F1 (male, 31), with P-R of 180 ms and QRS of 100 ms; F2 (female, 27), with P-R of 200 ms and QRS of 100 ms, both with left axis deviation. Echocardiographic studies were normal in both, but Holter studies showed remarkable bradycardia in both and intermittent rate-related (phase 3) LBBB in F2.