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Cardiovascular And Cancer Mortality In Brazil, Paulo A. Lotufo
Cardiovascular And Cancer Mortality In Brazil, Paulo A. Lotufo
Paulo A Lotufo
Cancer are not surpassing Cardiovascular Diseases. Here you have an evaluation of mortality in Brazil. The debate was ignited by paper from IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) that forecasts cancer deaths surpassing heart diseases rates during de 2020’s. There is no dispute about the fact that - at least in the US and other countries - the decline of mortality deaths for heart diseases presenting a faster pace compared to cancer death rates. It is an epidemiological evidence that must be analyzed and some headline fueling hype as “heart diseases as an old agenda of public health and …
Nutritional Evaluation Of The Patients With Head And Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma [Portuguese], Paulo A. Lotufo
Nutritional Evaluation Of The Patients With Head And Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma [Portuguese], Paulo A. Lotufo
Paulo A Lotufo
Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) usually present nutritional disorders, secondary to the upper aerodigestive tract involvement or due to the treatment sequels. Objective: To assess the nutritional status of patients with HNSCC in different phases of the disease treatment. Methods: Cross-sectional study with 155 patients divided in 4 groups: 103 patients with HNSCC (29 before treatment, 47 post-treatment with no recurrence and 27 post treatment with recurrent disease) and 52 controls without HNSCC. Clinical and epidemiological data were collected and a nutrition assessment was performed from anthropometric parameters (weight, height and Body Mass Index – BMI), …
Epidemiological Studies In The Information And Genomics Era: Experience Of The Clinical Genome Of Cancer Project In São Paulo, Brazil, V Wunsch, Jose Eluf-Neto, Paulo A. Lotufo, Marco A. Zago
Epidemiological Studies In The Information And Genomics Era: Experience Of The Clinical Genome Of Cancer Project In São Paulo, Brazil, V Wunsch, Jose Eluf-Neto, Paulo A. Lotufo, Marco A. Zago
Paulo A Lotufo
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