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The Association Between Level Of Education And The Propensity To Get A Prostate Specific Antigen Test, Sophia Artamendi, Julia Steger, Sofia Steger Sep 2023

The Association Between Level Of Education And The Propensity To Get A Prostate Specific Antigen Test, Sophia Artamendi, Julia Steger, Sofia Steger

AMNET XX Conferencia Internacional

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Achievement Of Treatment Goals And Mortality In Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: The Elsa-Brasil Study, Bruna Chwal, Rodrigo Dos Reis, Maria Inês Schmidt, Sandhi Maria Barreto, Rosane Harter Griep, Bruce Duncan Sep 2023

Achievement Of Treatment Goals And Mortality In Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: The Elsa-Brasil Study, Bruna Chwal, Rodrigo Dos Reis, Maria Inês Schmidt, Sandhi Maria Barreto, Rosane Harter Griep, Bruce Duncan

AMNET XX Conferencia Internacional

Objectives: To characterize the risk of death according to the achievement of blood glucose, hypertension, and lipid goals in middle-aged and elderly Brazilian adults with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: The Estudo Longitudinal de Saúde do Adulto (ELSA-Brasil) is an occupational cohort initiated in 2008 and followed through 2019. We ascertained known diabetes by self-reported diagnosis or anti-diabetic medication use. We measured glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and LDL-c centrally. We used 2022 American Diabetes Association treatment targets: HbA1c

Results: After 11 (1.8) years of follow-up, 272 of the 2492 participants with known diabetes had died. Within-target HbA1c was associated with the greatest …


Hipertensión Arterial No Diagnóstica En Adultos De Sabaneta, Un Enemigo Silencioso, Ángela P. Echeverri Rendón Estudiante De Medicina, Luz S. Giraldo Cardona Msc Epidemiología, Jorge E. Salazar Flórez Msc Epidemiología Sep 2022

Hipertensión Arterial No Diagnóstica En Adultos De Sabaneta, Un Enemigo Silencioso, Ángela P. Echeverri Rendón Estudiante De Medicina, Luz S. Giraldo Cardona Msc Epidemiología, Jorge E. Salazar Flórez Msc Epidemiología

AMNET XX Conferencia Internacional

Se realizó un estudio transversal analítico que pretendía determinar la prevalencia de hipertensión arterial no diagnosticada y sus factores ascociados en Sabaneta, Antioquia (2021-2022) con el fin de comprobar la hipótesis de que gran parte de la población sufre esta patología pero no lo sabe debido a que es asintomática en la mayoría de los casos.


Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (Cre): Epidemiology, Duration Of Carriage, And Progression To Infection In A Large Healthcare System In Miami, Fl, Adriana Jimenez Nov 2020

Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (Cre): Epidemiology, Duration Of Carriage, And Progression To Infection In A Large Healthcare System In Miami, Fl, Adriana Jimenez

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) considered by the CDC as an urgent public health threat that is spreading globally. Little is known about the epidemiology of CRE in Miami, FL. The purpose of this dissertation was to 1) Evaluate trends in the epidemiology of CRE among patients admitted to the acute care facilities of the largest healthcare system in Miami, FL between 2012 and 2016, 2) Identify factors associated with progressing to infection among patients colonized with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE), and 3) Determine the duration of CPE carriage and factors associated with long-term carriage in our cohort.

A …