Health Sciences

The objective of this work is to prepare diet cookies with cumbaru nut as an ingredient in replacement for wheat flour used in the traditional formulation, analyzing its physical-chemical composition and sensorial acceptance. Cookies were composed of five different formulations: F1 = Standard formulation (0%) - without addition of cumbaru nut, and the others with the addition of 2.5% (F2), 5% (F3), 7.5% (F4) and 10% (F5) of cumbaru nuts. The products were submitted to sensory analysis.

The study analyzed the effect of regular and monitored physical activity in patients (P) with Chagas disease (CD) and chronotropic incompetence using a blended sensor pacemaker. This was an open-label, longitudinal, prospective and randomized clinical trial. The 43 out of 50 selected P were evaluated in pre-ambulatory and 120 days after the randomization. 24 Pwere allocated to group G1 (with exercise activity - walking for 50 minutes at least 3 times per week) or G2 (without exercise activity; 19 P).

This clinical report describes the management of teeth with pulpal pathologies using root canal therapy and the use of a telescopic fixed dental prosthesis over a metallic primary coping on a tilted second molar abutment to restore a missing mandibular first molar.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the nutritional profile of adults assisted by primary health care in the period from 2007 to 2016, A cross-sectional, retrospective study was conducted, based on previously collected data. To evaluate the nutritional status, the body mass index was used, and for cardiovascular risk assessment, the waist circumference index/sex was used. The samples was made up of 9.301 adults, of both sexes, with predominance of the female sex (76.2%).

This study aimed to analyze the prevalence of violence against Brazilian immigrant women in Portugal since their arrival, and the consequences of this in their experience, specifically in health, perception of discrimination and loneliness. The sample comprised 682 Brazilian women, migrants, over 18 years old, living in Portugal for more than three months.

In this article, we seek to discuss one of the principles that compose the prevailing ethical-political orthodoxy, which is equality among all human beings. The highlight is on the theory of philosopher Peter Singer. The aim was to analyze whether access to health services in Brazil respects the ethical principles of equality and equity. Equality is the desired consequence of equity, being the latera starting point for the former. That is, it is only through the recognition of the differences and the diverse needs of the social subjects that equality can be achieved.

The purpose of this study was to investigate factors related to nutrient mixture composition that contribute to the liver complications in patients chronically treated with parenteral nutrition. The retrospective study included 94 patients (53 female, 41 male), aged 24 to 81 years (mean age 54.5 years). Patients were followed up every 3 months on average, which was the basis for dividing the course of treatment of each patient into treatment periods. A single treatment period with a follow-up at the end was used as the basic unit for comparative analyses presented below.

Objective: Acute health problems and illnesses that a person in a certain building lives without a specific illness or cause are defined as Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). The purpose of this study is to investigate the complaints of volunteers working in the 3rd stage general intensive care unit and the operating room and the possible causes of these complaints. Method: Volunteers working in the tertiary intensive care unit (ICU) and in the operating room (OR) were taken into the study. Participants were asked to respond to a questionnaire.

Systematic review and meta-analysis is now considered the highest level of the evidence in the field of research. The results from multiple studies may yield the different estimates of the treatment effects as sometimes a randomized clinical trial may fail to give a clear and robust result. In systematic review by identifying all published and unpublished information in a given clinical area and pooling the results in a statistically valid fashion by performing meta-analysis, it is possible to arrive at a more precise estimate of treatment effect.

The term ‘migraine’ for very long has been used to refer to severe headache but it has more to it. There are certain physiologic changes occurring in brain that lead to pain in half side of head usually with associated symptoms like nausea, vomiting and visual disturbances. The exact cause of migraine is not known but various postulates explain the physiopathology of migraine and its course. It is believed to be because of either vascular, neurochemical, neuronal and hormonal changes.