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Evaluation of calcium intake and bone and mineral metabolism in women after eight years of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
No full textINTRODUÇÃO: A obesidade é uma doença crônica com crescimento alarmante no mundo todo. Atualmente, o tratamento cirúrgico, especialmente o Bypass Gástrico em Y de Roux (BGYR), tem se mostrado como a forma mais eficiente para perda de peso e sua manutenção a longo prazo. Contudo, com a formação do neo-estômago e a mudança na conformidade intestinal, há alterações significantes das muitas propriedades físicas e funcionais desses órgãos que levam à deficiência de nutrientes, inclusive de cálcio. Com isso, podem ocorrer modificações no metabolismo ósseo e, conseqüentemente, na estrutura óssea. OBJETIVOS: Avaliar a ingestão de cálcio, as alterações no metabolismo ósseo e mineral; e a ocorrência de osteopenia e osteoporose em mulheres que se submeteram ao BGYR há oito anos. MÉTODO: Neste estudo transversal, foram estudadas 30 mulheres que se submeteram ao BGYR no período de outubro de 1995 a janeiro de 1999, no Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP. Para avaliação da ingestão de cálcio, utilizamos o recordatório de 3 dias (R3D) e o questionário de freqüência alimentar (QFA). Também foram realizados exames laboratoriais referentes ao metabolismo ósseo e mineral e densitometria óssea do seguimento L1-L4, colo femoral (CF) e fêmur proximal (FP). RESULTADOS: Em média, o consumo de cálcio foi de 525,5 ± 250,7 mg/dia pelo R3D e de 542,2 ± 195,6 mg/dia pelo QFA. Houve uma relação estatisticamente significativa entre a ingestão de cálcio por esses dois métodos (p<0,001). Não houve alteração nas determinações de cálcio total e ionizado, magnésio, fósforo e CTX. Os níveis de PTH, Fosfatase alcalina fração óssea (BSAP) e osteocalcina estavam elevados em 53%, 57% e 20% das mulheres, respectivamente; 90% apresentavam deficiência de 25 (OH) vitamina D (40% leve e 50% moderada), e em 70% a calciúria estava abaixo dos valores normais. Observou-se uma correlação positiva entre 25 (OH) vitamina D e a calciúria (p<0,04) e negativa entre 25 (OH) vitamina D e PTH (p<0,017). Com relação à densidade mineral óssea, 13% das mulheres foram diagnosticadas com osteoporose com relação ao CF e FP; 67%, 40% e 27% apresentavam osteopenia em L1-L4, CF e FP, respectivamente. CONCLUSÃO: Na maioria das mulheres estudadas verificou-se um consumo de cálcio cerca de 50% abaixo da recomendação diária para esta faixa etária. Observou-se também, uma deficiência de 25 (OH) vitamina D e elevação de PTH e BSAP. Além disso, houve uma ocorrência de osteopenia superior à esperada indicando que alterações no metabolismo ósseo são provavelmente uma complicação do BGYR. Mais estudos são necessários para definir uma rotina de suplementação de cálcio e vitamina D, e também para a prevenção das alterações ósseas.INTRODUTION: Obesity is a chronic disease that rises rapidly around the world. Nowadays bariatric surgical procedures, especially Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) has been shown the most efficient way to lose weight and maintain the weight loss for a long time. However, with the neo-stomach and the modification of intestinal anatomy by the surgery there are significant changes on physiological properties of these organs that lead to a nutrient deficiency, including calcium. Thus, bone metabolism changes may occur leading to a metabolic bone disease. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate calcium intake, bone and mineral metabolism changes and the prevalence of metabolic bone disease in women who were submitted to RYGB after eight years. METHOD: we studied 30 women who were submitted to RYGB during the period between October of 1995 and January of 1999 at Clinical Hospital of Medicine School of São Paulo University. To access calcium intake we used a 3 day dietary recall (3DR) and food frequency questionnaire (FFQ). Laboratory tests of bone metabolism and bone mass density of L1-L4, femoral neck (FN) and proximal femur (PF) were also accessed. RESULTS: calcium intake was 525,5 ± 250,7 mg/day according 3RD and 542,2 ± 195,6 mg/day according FFQ. There was a significantly relation between both methods (p<0,001). Total and ionic calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and CTX were not altered. PTH, bone specific alkaline phosphatase (BSAP) and osteocalcin levels were elevated respectively in 53%, 57% and 20% of women. 90% presented 25 (OH) vitamin D deficiency (40% mild and 50% moderate) and 70% had low urinary calcium. Was observed a positive correlation between 25 (OH) vitamin D and urinary calcium (p<0,04); and a negative correlation between 25 (OH) vitamin D and PTH (p<0,017). 13% of women had osteoporosis in FN and PF; 67%, 40% and 27% had metabolic bone disease in L1-L4, FN and PF respectively. CONCLUSION: Most studied women had a low calcium intake, about 50% of daily recommendation. We also noticed a 25 (OH) vitamin D deficiency and elevated levels of PTH and BSAP. Besides, there was a high prevalence of metabolic bone disease than expected, suggesting that this could be a complication of this surgery. Further studies are needed to define a supplementation routine of calcium and vitamin D to prevent bone metabolic diseases in these patients
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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