Níveis séricos de vitamina A em crianças de 6-71 meses de idade em uma Unidade Básica de Saúde no município de Botucatu - SP

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Notas de Población Vol.28 N° 71

Los métodos de estimación indirecta de variables sociodemográficas para áreas geográficas menores han experimentado un franco desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe. Aunque algunos de estos métodos tienen referentes en trabajos que datan de varias décadas atrás, durante los años noventa confluyeron tres factores principales, que dieron un gran impulso a esta línea de investigación: a) el fuerte aumento de la demanda de este tipo de información, originado en exigencias legales vinculadas a la representación política o a ciertas asignaciones presupuestarias, en el marco de procesos de descentralización, ven la focalización de las políticas sociales en general; b) una mayor frecuencia, periodicidad y sistematización del levantamiento de encuestas de hogares y demográficas con representación nacional, urbana y rural, y c) la más amplia disponibilidad de medios computacionales de bajo costo y alta velocidad de procesamiento de bases de datos con varios miles o millones de registros individuales, como las encuestas y los censos de población y vivienda. En los artículos aquí reunidos, los temas y variables estudiados (población, prevalencia y demanda anticonceptiva, ingreso, pobreza), las fuentes de información utilizadas (registros vitales y administrativos, censos, encuestas) y los procedimientos de análisis y estimación (imputación proporcional simple, tipificación, análisis discriminante y de regresión) pueden aparecer, en una primera mirada, bastante disímiles. No obstante, los trabajos tienen importantes elementos en común, como el propósito de obtener estimaciones de indicadores de forma indirecta, cuando es imposible o insatisfactoria la estimación directa; el recurso a la combinación de dos o mas fuentes de información, y la especificación y elaboración de modelos estadísticos, en general de tipo multivariado, apropiados para el objetivo que se persigue.

Marcadores inflamatórios locais e sistêmicos em tabagistas com e sem doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Autonomic modulation and its relation with body composition in swimmers

This study compared autonomic modulation in swimmers and non-athletes in relation to body composition. A total of 28 athletes with a mean age of 19.7 +/- 2.9 years were evaluated who had at least 2 years of swimming training, trained approximately 7,000 m per day, with a frequency of 5 days per week, and who competed at national level. The control group was made up of 21 volunteers (23.0 +/- 2.5 years), who did not practice regular physical activity (<2 hours per week). Body composition was estimated using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, and autonomic modulation was assessed by heart rate variability (HRV). The results show that there were significant differences in autonomic modulation and body composition between the groups, and that the athletes had a higher overall variability (standard deviation of all normal intervals between consecutive heart beats [SDNN]: 78.1 [72.5-93.5] x 61.1 [56.4-75.7], p = 0.022) and greater autonomic balance (LF/HF: 0.96 [0.88-1.35] x 0.71 [0.56-0.93], p = 0.023), compared with the non-athletes, respectively. In addition, a moderate and positive relation was obtained between fat-free mass and the square root of the squared differences between consecutive heartbeat intervals (RMSSD: r = 0.526, p = 0.004 x r = 0.456, p = 0.038), (SDNN: r = 0.617, p = 0.001 x r = 0.571, p = 0.007) and low frequency (LFms(2): r = 0.517, p = 0.005 3 r = 0.600, p = 0.004) in the athletes and non-athletes, respectively, without a correlation between fat mass (FM). The conclusion is that young highly trained swimmers had lower FM, increased fat-free mass, and better HRV than young adult non-athletes and suggests that a lower quantity of FM and, especially, a greater fat-free mass (FFM) are linked to better autonomic modulation. Thus, this study could contribute to coaches and trainers establishing greater performance by better autonomic modulation and greater quantity of FFM.

Unesp Informa, 2015, número 71

Boletim elaborado pela Assessoria de Comunicação e Imprensa da Reitoria da UNESP

Unesp Ciência, 2016, ano 7, número 71

Revista elaborada pela Assessoria de Comunicação e Imprensa da Reitoria da UNESP

RB34-71 Effects of Inflation and Deflation Upon Nebraska Agriculture, 1914 to 1932

Nebraska farmers prospered during the period which followed the depression of the nineties and preceded the beginning of the World War. To be sure the prosperity was not uniformly distributed either by years or by areas. The corn crop was unusually short in a large portion of the state in 1901 and an almost total failure in many of the southern counties in 1913. Chinch bugs did considerable injury in 1901 and the Hessian fly in 1905 and 1914. There was noticeable damage from insects in some areas in other years. No part of the state, however, suffered from long-continued drouth or repeated ravages of insect pests. The depression of 1907 affected credit and prices very severly for a few months, but recovery was rapid and within less than a year business was again moving forward. This 1934 research bulletin covers the problems of inflation and deflation; changes in the prices of various commodities during inflation and deflation; prices and purchasing power of Nebraska farm products, 1914 to 1932; adjustments during inflation and deflation; the effect of wages on Nebraska agriculture; taxes; Nebraska farm income; changes in types of farming in Nebraska, 1914 to 1932; the banking situation; Nebraska farm land prices; and the effects of inflation and deflation upon Nebraska businesses.

Trauma mechanisms, patterns of injury, and outcomes in a retrospective study of 71 burns from civil gas explosions

Although explosion injuries caused by terror attacks or in war are evaluated in many studies, limited information about civil explosion injuries can be found in the literature.

Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci

We undertook a meta-analysis of six Crohn's disease genome-wide association studies (GWAS) comprising 6,333 affected individuals (cases) and 15,056 controls and followed up the top association signals in 15,694 cases, 14,026 controls and 414 parent-offspring trios. We identified 30 new susceptibility loci meeting genome-wide significance (P < 5 × 10 ? ? ). A series of in silico analyses highlighted particular genes within these loci and, together with manual curation, implicated functionally interesting candidate genes including SMAD3, ERAP2, IL10, IL2RA, TYK2, FUT2, DNMT3A, DENND1B, BACH2 and TAGAP. Combined with previously confirmed loci, these results identify 71 distinct loci with genome-wide significant evidence for association with Crohn's disease.