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Are physicians aware of their role in tobacco control? A conference-based surve...
Ravara, Sofia B.; Castelo-Branco, Miguel; Aguiar, Pedro; Calheiros, José M.Authors’ contributions: SBR conceived the study and gathered the information, completed data entry, data analysis and drafting of the manuscript. All authors participated in the design of the study, analysed and interpreted the data and critically reviewed the original draft. SBR and JMC coordinated the study design. PA coordinated the statistical analysis. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. ; ...
Compliance and enforcement of a partial smoking ban in Lisbon taxis: an explora...
Ravara, Sofia B.; Castelo-Branco, Miguel; Aguiar, Pedro; Calheiros, José M.BACKGROUND: Research evaluating enforcement and compliance with smoking partial bans is rather scarce, especially in countries with relative weak tobacco control policies, such as Portugal. There is also scarce evidence on specific high risk groups such as vehicle workers. In January 2008, Portugal implemented a partial ban, followed by poor enforcement. The purpose of this study was to explore the effectivenes...
Pharmacist intervention program to enhance hypertension control: a randomised c...
Morgado, Manuel; Rolo, Sandra; Castelo-Branco, MiguelObjective Studies have demonstrated that hypertension remains inadequately managed throughout the world, with lack of adherence to BP-lowering medication being a major factor. The aim of the present study was to evaluate if a pharmaceutical care program could improve antihypertensive medication adherence and blood pressure control. Setting This study was conducted in a secondary care hypertension/dyslipidemia o...
Association of statin therapy with blood pressure control in hypertensive hype...
Morgado, Manuel; Rolo, Sandra; Macedo, Ana Filipa; Castelo-Branco, MiguelBackground: Some clinical evidence revealed that statins, apart from lowering cholesterol levels, also have an antihypertensive effect. Our aim was to evaluate the existence of a possible association of statin therapy with blood pressure (BP) control in clinical practice. Materials and Methods: Patients attending a hypertension/ dyslipidemia clinic were prospectively evaluated. Those patients with a diagno...
Predictors of uncontrolled hypertension and antihypertensive medication nonadhe...
Morgado, Manuel; Rolo, Sandra; Macedo, Ana Filipa; Pereira, Luísa; Castelo-Branco, Miguelhttp://www.jcdronline.com/text.asp?2010/1/4/196/74263 ; Background: Although hypertension is, in most cases, a controllable major risk factor in the development of cardiovascular disease, studies have demonstrated that hypertension remains poorly controlled in Portugal. Our aim was to evaluate the covariates associated with poor blood pressure (BP) control in a Portuguese hypertensive population. Patients a...
Blood pressure control and antihypertensive pharmacotherapy patterns in a hyper...
Morgado, Manuel; Rolo, Sandra; Pereira, Luísa; Castelo-Branco, Miguelhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21192829 ; BACKGROUND: Interventions to improve blood pressure control in hypertension have had limited success in clinical practice despite evidence of cardiovascular disease prevention in randomised controlled trials. The objectives of this study were to evaluate blood pressure control and antihypertensive pharmacotherapy patterns in a population of Eastern Central Region o...
Obsessive–compulsive disorder as a visual processing impairment
Gonçalves, Óscar F.; Marques, Tiago Reis; Lori, Nicolás F.; Sampaio, Adriana; Castelo-Branco, MiguelOCD has been hypothesized to involve the failures in both cognitive and behavioral inhibitory processes. There is evidence that the hyperactivation of cortical–subcortical pathways may be involved in the failure of these inhibitory systems associated with OCD. Despite this consensus on the role of frontal–subcortical pathways in OCD, recent studies have been showing that brain regions other than the frontal–sub...
Acceleration patterns in the perception of biological motion
Aragão, Bruno; Santos, Jorge A.; Castelo-Branco, MiguelA lot of natural stimuli are characterized by acceleration patterns. However, available studies are inconclusive about the importance of these patterns on visual perception. Empirical findings seems to both sustain that acceleration patterns might have, or might have not, a significant role on visual perception [Runeson, 1974 Psychological Research 37 3-23; McIntyre et al, 2001 Nature Neuroscience 4(7) 693-694]...
The role of peripheral vision in implicit contextual cuing
Castelo-Branco, Miguel; Asselen, Marieke vanImplicit contextual cuing refers to the ability to learn the association between contextual information of our environment and a specific target, which can be used to guide attention during visual search. It was recently suggested that the storage of a snapshot image of the local context of a target underlies implicit contextual cuing. To make such a snapshot, it is necessary to use peripheral vision. In order ...
Adaptive visual memory reorganization in right medial temporal lobe epilepsy
Figueiredo, Patrícia; Santana, Isabel; Teixeira, João; Cunha, Catarina; Machado, Egídeo; Sales, Francisco; Almeida, Eduarda; Castelo-Branco, MiguelPurpose: We investigated functional reorganization mechanisms of the human medial temporal lobe (MTL) for episodic memory, in patients suffering from medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) with hippocampal sclerosis (HS). Methods: We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity changes during matched episodic encoding tasks of abstract words (Verbal) and line drawings (Visual), in p...
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