BACKGROUND: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of conditions that occur together, increasing the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Since pathways implicated in different diseases reveal surprising insights into shared genetic bases underlying apparently unrelated traits, we hypothesize that there are common genetic components involved in the clustering of MetS traits. With the aim of identifying t...
Prémio de melhor comunicação oral do IV Congresso Nacional de Saúde Pública ; Introdução: As falhas terapêuticas e reações adversas a medicamentos (RAM) representam um problema de saúde pública, sendo parcialmente determinadas pela variabilidade genética individual. Torna-se assim fundamental conhecer o perfil farmacogenético da população para adequar a terapêutica a cada paciente e minimizar as RAM. O objetiv...
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of conditions — increased blood pressure, high blood glucose level, excess body fat around the waist and abnormal cholesterol levels — that occur together, increasing the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. In Portugal, the MetS prevalence is estimated to be 27,5% with regional variations, being highest in the Alentejo (30,99%) and lowest in the Algarve (24,42%), c...
O Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA, IP) participou em 2010-2011 no projecto piloto EHES (European Health Examination Survey), co-financiado pela UE e coordenado pelo Instituto Finlandês de Saúde Pública (THL). A pertinência destes estudos reside na possibilidade de aliar a análise de diversas dimensões de saúde numa amostra populacional à máxima validade dos dados e informação obtidos, rec...
Alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency and hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) are two of the most fatal genetic disorders in adult life, affecting million individuals worldwide. They are often under-diagnosed conditions and diagnosis is only made when the patient is already in the advanced stages of damage. AAT deficiency results from mutations in one highly pleiomorphic gene located on chromosome 14, SERPINA 1, bei...
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