Mental disorders and blood pressure changes in young adults / Transtornos mentais e mudanças na pressão de sangue em jovens adultos

Background: Currently, mental disorders are being considered a worldwide problem that has affected individuals on a global scale. The physiological aspects that comprise these pathologies can infer changes in blood pressure, increasing the risk for the development of arterial hypertension. Objective: The present study aims to evaluate the influence of mental disorders and environmental factors for the development of changes in blood pressure that can progress to arterial hypertension in young adults of both genders. Materials and methods: This is a quantitative, observational, transversal, descriptive and experimental research in a city in the interior of Bahia. The sample consisted of 258 individuals, being 174 females and 84 males. Mental disorders (anxiety, depression and stress), physical activity, smoking and drinking habits, body fat and sociodemographic variables were analyzed. The data were tabulated and processed in the Excel program and subsequently transferred to the statistical program SPSS® 25.0., and the 95% significance level was considered. Initially, the descriptive analysis of the data was performed, then, the linear regression test was used to analyze the relationship of the variables and for that purpose two adjustment models were created. Model 1 - blood pressure (dependent variable), the variables of mental disorders (stress, anxiety and depression) and age; and in Model 2 its was inserted - physical activity, body fat, social class, marital status, education, drinking, smoking and work. Both models were applied according to gender. Results: The sample consisted of 127 women and 57 men whose ages varied from 29.03 (± 6.454) and 29.37 (± 6.44) for women and men, respectively. Table 1 shows the characteristics of the sample, blood pressure levels ranged from 114.98 (± 14.888) and 129.13 (± 17.915) for women and men, respectively. Table 2 shows the results of the linear regression according to the models mentioned in the methodology for both genders, in adjustment model 1 and 2, p?0,000 was found for both genders. Final considerations: The importance of studying factors of mental and environmental risks consists of analyzing their influence on the individual's blood pressure and other possible illnesses, since the individual is a set of complexities and the environment in which he is inserted influences to health

ATLANTIC EPIPHYTES: a data set of vascular and non-vascular epiphyte plants and lichens from the Atlantic Forest

Epiphytes are hyper-diverse and one of the frequently undervalued life forms in plant surveys and biodiversity inventories. Epiphytes of the Atlantic Forest, one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, have high endemism and radiated recently in the Pliocene. We aimed to (1) compile an extensive Atlantic Forest data set on vascular, non-vascular plants (including hemiepiphytes), and lichen epiphyte species occurrence and abundance; (2) describe the epiphyte distribution in the Atlantic Forest, in order to indicate future sampling efforts. Our work presents the first epiphyte data set with information on abundance and occurrence of epiphyte phorophyte species. All data compiled here come from three main sources provided by the authors: published sources (comprising peer-reviewed articles, books, and theses), unpublished data, and herbarium data. We compiled a data set composed of 2,095 species, from 89,270 holo/hemiepiphyte records, in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, recorded from 1824 to early 2018. Most of the records were from qualitative data (occurrence only, 88%), well distributed throughout the Atlantic Forest. For quantitative records, the most common sampling method was individual trees (71%), followed by plot sampling (19%), and transect sampling (10%). Angiosperms (81%) were the most frequently registered group, and Bromeliaceae and Orchidaceae were the families with the greatest number of records (27,272 and 21,945, respectively). Ferns and Lycophytes presented fewer records than Angiosperms, and Polypodiaceae were the most recorded family, and more concentrated in the Southern and Southeastern regions. Data on non-vascular plants and lichens were scarce, with a few disjunct records concentrated in the Northeastern region of the Atlantic Forest. For all non-vascular plant records, Lejeuneaceae, a family of liverworts, was the most recorded family. We hope that our effort to organize scattered epiphyte data help advance the knowledge of epiphyte ecology, as well as our understanding of macroecological and biogeographical patterns in the Atlantic Forest. No copyright restrictions are associated with the data set. Please cite this Ecology Data Paper if the data are used in publication and teaching events. © 2019 The Authors. Ecology © 2019 The Ecological Society of Americ