Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992)
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Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992) · Sep 2020
An estimate of the incidence and prevalence of laryngeal papillomatosis in São Paulo State (Brasil).
Recurrent laryngeal papillomatosis, caused by the Human Papilloma Virus, has a significant economic impact worldwide and there are no epidemiological data of this disease in Brasil. ⋯ The incidence and prevalence of the laryngeal papillomatosis of the five largest regional health centers of the interior of São Paulo State (Brasil) varied between 1.87 to 11.46 and 6.86 to 22.92 per 1,000,000 inhabitants, respectively for a total population of 11,871,852 inhabitants.
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Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992) · Sep 2020
Randomized Controlled TrialChildren First Study II: an educational programme on cardiovascular prevention in public schools can reduce parents' cardiovascular risk.
The aim of this study was to analyze whether the implementation of a multidisciplinary educational programme for cardiovascular prevention in public schools can contribute to reducing the FramINGHAM CARDIOVASCULAR RISK SCORE OF THE CHILDREN'S PARENTS AFTER ONE YEAR. ⋯ An educational programme on cardiovascular prevention for school-age children in public schools can reduce the cardiovascular risk of their parents.
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the highly pathogenic SARS-Cov-2 virus, was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. Its main clinical manifestations are related to airway involvement; however, there is extrapulmonary impairment in some cases. Given this context, this literature review aims to identify the ophthalmological conditions caused by infection with the novel coronavirus. Although ocular findings do not include the standard clinical presentation of the disease, there are reports of some ophthalmological changes in COVID-19 patients, and conjunctivitis is the most common among these.