Influência da renda na associação entre disfunção cognitiva e polifarmácia: Projeto Bambuí

OBJETIVO: Avaliar a prevalência da polifarmácia e a influência da renda na associação entre uso de medicamentos e disfunção cognitiva, entre idosos. MÉTODOS: Dos 1.606 integrantes da linha base da coorte de idosos de Bambuí (Minas Gerais), iniciada em 1997, 1.554 participaram do estudo. Todos os participantes foram submetidos ao questionário mini-exame do estado mental. A associação entre disfunção cognitiva e polifarmácia foi testada por meio de regressões ordinais multivariadas, realizadas para a população total e para cada um dos estratos de renda. RESULTADOS: A prevalência de polifarmácia (consumo de dois ou mais medicamentos) foi de 70,4%, e o número de medicamentos consumidos mostrou-se negativa e independentemente associado à disfunção cognitiva (OR=0,72; IC 95%: 0,55;0,95). Quando estratificada pela renda pessoal (; 2), observou-se associação negativa entre uso de medicamentos e disfunção cognitiva entre idosos com renda mais baixa (OR=0,64; IC95%: 0,48;0,86), mas não entre aqueles de renda mais elevada (OR=1,74; IC 95%: 0,81;3,74). CONCLUSÕES: Com referência à associação entre disfunção cognitiva e número de medicamentos consumidos, os resultados indicam desigualdade social no uso de medicamentos. É possível que esses idosos não estejam consumindo os medicamentos necessários ao adequado tratamento de seus problemas de saúde.OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the prevalence of polypharmacy and the influence of income on the association between medication use and cognitive impairment among elderly people. METHODS: Out of the 1,606 baseline members of the Bambuí cohort of elderly people, which started in 1997, 1,554 took part in the study. The Mini-Mental State Examination was applied to all the participants. The association between cognitive impairment and polypharmacy was tested by means of multivariate ordinal regression, performed for the whole population and for each of the income strata. RESULTS: The prevalence of polypharmacy (two or more medications consumed) was 70.4% and the number of medications used presented an independent negative association with cognitive impairment (OR=0.72; 95% CI: 0.55;0.95). When this was stratified according to personal income (; 2 minimum monthly salaries), a negative association was observed between medication use and cognitive impairment among elderly people with lower income (OR=0.64; 95% CI: 0.48;0.86), but not among those with higher income (OR=1.74; 95% CI: 0.81;3.74). CONCLUSIONS: With regard to the association between cognitive impairment and number of medications consumed, the results indicate social inequality in the use of medications. It is possible that these elderly people are not consuming the medicines needed for appropriate treatment of their health problems

Measurement of the cross-section and charge asymmetry of WW bosons produced in proton-proton collisions at s=8\sqrt{s}=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

This paper presents measurements of the $W^+ \rightarrow \mu^+\nu$ and $W^- \rightarrow \mu^-\nu$ cross-sections and the associated charge asymmetry as a function of the absolute pseudorapidity of the decay muon. The data were collected in proton--proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC and correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 20.2~\mbox{fb^{-1}}. The precision of the cross-section measurements varies between 0.8% to 1.5% as a function of the pseudorapidity, excluding the 1.9% uncertainty on the integrated luminosity. The charge asymmetry is measured with an uncertainty between 0.002 and 0.003. The results are compared with predictions based on next-to-next-to-leading-order calculations with various parton distribution functions and have the sensitivity to discriminate between them.Comment: 38 pages in total, author list starting page 22, 5 figures, 4 tables, submitted to EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2017-13

Search for chargino-neutralino production with mass splittings near the electroweak scale in three-lepton final states in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for supersymmetry through the pair production of electroweakinos with mass splittings near the electroweak scale and decaying via on-shell W and Z bosons is presented for a three-lepton final state. The analyzed proton-proton collision data taken at a center-of-mass energy of √s=13  TeV were collected between 2015 and 2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139  fb−1. A search, emulating the recursive jigsaw reconstruction technique with easily reproducible laboratory-frame variables, is performed. The two excesses observed in the 2015–2016 data recursive jigsaw analysis in the low-mass three-lepton phase space are reproduced. Results with the full data set are in agreement with the Standard Model expectations. They are interpreted to set exclusion limits at the 95% confidence level on simplified models of chargino-neutralino pair production for masses up to 345 GeV

Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √ s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Results of a search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum are reported. The search uses 20.3 fb−1 of √ s = 8 TeV data collected in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are required to have at least one jet with pT > 120 GeV and no leptons. Nine signal regions are considered with increasing missing transverse momentum requirements between Emiss T > 150 GeV and Emiss T > 700 GeV. Good agreement is observed between the number of events in data and Standard Model expectations. The results are translated into exclusion limits on models with either large extra spatial dimensions, pair production of weakly interacting dark matter candidates, or production of very light gravitinos in a gauge-mediated supersymmetric model. In addition, limits on the production of an invisibly decaying Higgs-like boson leading to similar topologies in the final state are presente