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Avaliação da ingestão de cálcio em pacientes com urolitíase
Full text linkA litíase renal é uma doença comum, com prevalência estimada em 5 a 10% da população. Sua etiopatogenia é multifatorial, com a participação de fatores genéticos, nutricionais, sócio-econômicos, ambientais, metabólicos, anatômicos e infecciosos. A dieta tem papel relevante na formação e crescimento de cálculos renais. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar o perfil alimentar, principalmente a ingestão de cálcio, dos pacientes com litíase em atendimento ambulatorial. Foram avaliados 37 pacientes litiásicos (17M/20F, 46 ± 11 anos) e 45 controles (20M/25F, 44 ± 13 anos). Os litiásicos apresentaram média de Índice de massa corporal (IMC) maior que os controles (26 ± 4 vs 24 ± 3 kg/m2, P= 0,01). Foi utilizado o método de registro alimentar de quatro dias, incluindo três dias da semana e um domingo. Observou-se uma ingestão significativamente maior entre os controles quanto a calorias totais, kcal/kg de peso atual/dia, proteínas/kg de peso atual/dia, lipídios totais, percentual do valor calórico total em lipídios e cálcio (582±229 vs 949±480mg/dia). Desmembrando o registro alimentar de quatro dias, observou-se diferença significativa quanto a ingestão de cálcio tanto nos dias referentes à semana (608±289 vs 951±465mg/dia, P<0,001) quanto no domingo (556±276 vs 947±553mg/dia, P<0,001), entre casos e controles, respectivamente. Através da análise da regressão linear múltipla, corrigindo para IMC, renda, idade e sexo, observou-se maior ingestão de cálcio no grupo controle, nos registros alimentares estudados (P< 0,02). Em conclusão, os resultados do presente estudo mostram que, na amostra estudada, os pacientes litiásicos ingerem uma menor quantidade de cálcio que os indivíduos normais, tanto no registro alimentar de quatro dias, três dias e no domingo, podendo contribuir como mais um fator de risco para o desenvolvimento da urolitíase
Efeitos da ingestão protéica na progressão da doença renal e nos parâmetros inflamatório e oxidativo de pacientes com insuficiência renal em fase pré-diálise
Full text linkIntrodução: A maioria dos distúrbios metabólicos presentes na doença renal crônica (DRC) resulta, principalmente, do acúmulo de produtos do metabolismo do nitrogênio presentes nos alimentos ricos em proteínas. Dietas hiperprotéicas estão associadas à hiperperfusão, hipertensão e hiperfiltração glomerular e, conseqüentemente, à progressão da DRC. A dietoterapia tem um papel importante no tratamento da DRC, consistindo, principalmente, na redução da oferta diária de proteínas. Objetivo: Verificar o efeito da intervenção dietoterápica no estado nutricional, na progressão da doença renal e nos parâmetros inflamatórios, lipídicos, estado oxidativo e níveis séricos de potássio, de pacientes com insuficiência renal crônica em fase pré-dialítica. Pacientes e Métodos: Foi realizado um estudo prospectivo randomizado controlado cruzado em pacientes com DRC Estágio IV, em atendimento ambulatorial. O estudo constou de dois grupos de pacientes com DRC em fase pré-dialítica, que seguiram dois esquemas dietoterápicos diferentes, durante seis semanas: 21 pacientes iniciaram com prescrição de dieta normoprotéica (1 g/kg/dia) e 20 com prescrição de dieta hipoprotéica (0,6 g/kg/dia). Após esse período, os grupos inverteram as dietas. Foram avaliados parâmetros dietéticos, bioquímicos e antropométricos no momento basal e após seis e doze semanas. Os dados foram analisados segundo a intenção de tratamento na análise de crossover e por adesão à dieta hipoprotéica. Utilizaramse testes ANOVA para medidas repetidas e correlação de Spearman. O nível de significância adotado foi o de P < 0,05. Resultados: Foram avaliados 41 pacientes. Apenas um paciente (2,4%) foi considerado desnutrido e 28 (68%) apresentaram sobrepeso ou obesidade. Dezessete pacientes (41,5%) foram considerados inflamados, de acordo com o nível de PCR. Houve baixa adesão à dieta hipoprotéica.Não se observou prejuízo no estado nutricional dos pacientes durante o seguimento de prescrição de dieta hipoprotéica. Nos pacientes não inflamados observou-se melhora nos parâmetros de função renal, ao passo que, nos inflamados, estes parâmetros apresentaram deterioração. Observaram-se correlações negativas significativas entre os níveis séricos de HDL-colesterol e creatinina; HDL-colesterol e IMC; e correlações positivas significativas entre colesterol-total e uréia; LDL-colesterol e uréia; PNA/kg e HDL, triglicerídios e tirosina; triglicerídios e fibrinogênio; triglicerídios e creatinina; uréia e albumina. Conclusões: A adesão à dieta hipoprotéica foi muito pequena. A dieta hipoprotéica não interferiu no estado nutricional. A presença de inflamação influenciou, negativamente, a evolução da função renal. O perfil lipídico esteve relacionado ao estado nutricional, aos fatores de progressão da DRC e à inflamação; a lipoperoxidação esteve associada aos níveis séricos de albumina.Background: Most metabolic disorders presented by patients with chronic renal disease (CRD) are mainly a result of accumulation of products of nitrogen metabolism, present in protein rich foods. High protein diets are associated with hyperperfusion, hypertension and hyperfiltration of the glomeruli and, as a consequence, may accelerate the progression of CRF. Nutritional therapy plays an important role in CRF treatment, consisting mainly in reduction of daily protein intake. Objective: To verify the effect of nutrition therapy intervention on nutritional status, on renal disease progression and on inflammatory and lipid parameters, oxidative status and potassium serum levels in patients with chronic renal insufficiency in the pre dialysis period. Patients and Methods: A crossover controlled prospective, randomized study in outpatients with stage IV CRD was carried out. The study consisted in the follow up of two groups of patients with CRD in the pre dialysis period. By randomization 21 patients were started on a 1g protein/kg/day diet prescription and 20 patients on low protein diet (0.6g/kg/day). After six weeks diets were reversed between the two groups and followed for another six week period. Dietetic, biochemical and anthropometric parameters were assessed at baseline and after 6 and 12 weeks. Data were analyzed according to the intention to treat approach in the crossover analysis and by adherence to the low protein diet. ANOVA for repeated measures and Spearman´s correlation tests were used for statistical analysis. The significance level adopted was P < 0.05. Results: 41 patients were evaluated. Only one patient (2.4%) was considered undernourished and 28 patients (68%) presented either over weighted or obese. Seventeen patients (41.5%) were considered inflamed according to the level of C reactive protein (CRP). Low adherence to the low protein diet was observed. Damage on nutritional status was not observed on low protein diet. In non-inflamed patients an improvement on renal function parameters was observed, whereas in the inflamed ones these parameters presented deterioration. Significant negative correlations between HDL-cholesterol serum levels and creatinine, HDL-cholesterol and body mass index (BMI) were observed. Significant positive correlations were observed between total cholesterol and urea, LDL-cholesterol and urea, PNA/kg and HDL, triglycerides and tyrosine, triglycerides and fibrinogen, triglycerides and creatinine, urea and albumin. Conclusions: Patients adhered poorly to low protein diets. Low protein diet did not influence the nutritional status. Presence of inflammation influenced negatively the evolution of renal function. The lipid profile was related to the nutritional status, to the progression factors of CRF and to inflammation. Lipoperoxidation was associated to serum levels of albumin
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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