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Dor pediátrica em Portugal: resultados da sensibilização e formação

Introdução: A sensibilização e formação dos profissionais de saúde na área da dor foi desde 2001 uma opção estratégica nacional, mas desconhece-se o seu impacto nos cuidados. O objetivo foi avaliar o impacto de ações de sensibilização e formação realizadas ao longo de dez anos nos cuidados prestados pelos enfermeiros à criança hospitalizada na área da dor. Materiais e métodos: Estudo observacional, descritivo, ...

Amylose content of rice marketed in Portugal

Amylose content is considered to be the most important parameter of cooking quality in rice. Presently, rice cultivars are categorized according to amylose content into three groups: low, medium and high amylose content cultivars. The specific objective of this work is to evaluate the grain amylose content of 77 cultivars, which cover Índica and Japónica subspecies, and different types of commercial rice like, ...

Advances in fragile-x testing

Efeitos da Intervenção Dietética e Medicamentosa sobre o Estado de Nutrição e P...

Introdução: É hoje unanimemente reconhecido que a doença aterosclerótica tem o seu início nos primeiros anos de vida. Na génese desta patologia estão factores genéticos e ambientais, com particular destaque para os factores alimentares. Entre os factores genéticos, a hipercolesterolemia familiar heterozigótica, um dos mais frequentes erros inatos do metabolismo, representa por si só um elevado risco de doença c...

Self-agressiveness and guilt in Non-fatal suicidal behaviour in young

These findings reveal a very importante subgroup of patients that need a special attention towards a deeper understanding in order to build a therapeutic alliance that provide na accurate prevention of a further completed suicide

A study on 1070 non-fatal suicidal behaviour in Portugal: a socio-demografic an...

After 20-years experience, these findings increased our knowledge concerning the suicidal process and coping with patient suicide.

Pain management in hospitalized children in Portugal

Pain management in hospitalized children in Portugal Negligence in pain management practice is a recognized problem. Since 2001, Portugal has been making a strong effort to improve health care practices in this area through the development of awareness-raising campaigns, training sessions and publication of guidelines and best practice manuals. However, there is a lack of information on the prevalence of pain i...

Response of high-risk of recurrence/progression bladder tumours expressing sial...

High risk of recurrence/progression bladder tumours is treated with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy after complete resection of the tumour. Approximately 75% of these tumours express the uncommon carbohydrate antigen sialyl-Tn (Tn), a surrogate biomarker of tumour aggressiveness. Such changes in the glycosylation of cell-surface proteins influence tumour microenvironment and immune responses that m...

Pilot monitoring study of ibuprofen in surface waters of north of Portugal

Ibuprofen is amongst the most worldwide consumed pharmaceuticals. The present work presents the first data in the occurrence of ibuprofen in Portuguese surface waters, focusing in the north area of the country, which is one of the most densely populated areas of Portugal. Analysis of ibuprofen is based on pre-concentration of the analyte with solid phase extraction and subsequent determination with liquid chrom...

Effect of temperature on the bioactive properties of bee pollen

Bee pollen is flower pollen collected by the honey bee, Apis mellifera, for the purpose of feeding its larvae in the early stages of development. It is recognized to be a valuable apitherapeutic product with potential for medical, health and nutritional applications. The objective of this work was to compares the effect of different storage conditions in the bioactive compounds and biological properties of bee ...