Prevalence of peripheral arterial occlusive disease in patients referred to a tertiary care hospital in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, for coronary angiography

The presence of peripheral arterial occlusive disease increases the morbidity and mortality of patients with coronary artery disease. The objective of the present study was to calculate the prevalence of peripheral arterial occlusive disease in patients referred for coronary angiography. This prevalence study was carried out at the Hemodynamics Unit of Hospital Santa Isabel, Salvador, Brazil, from December 2004 to April 2005. After approval by the Ethics Committee of the hospital, 397 patients with angiographic signs of coronary artery disease were enrolled. Diagnosis of peripheral arterial occlusive disease was made using the ankle-brachial blood pressure index (£0.90). Statistical analyses were performed using the z test and a level of significance of a = 5%, 95%CI, the chi-square test and t-test, and multiple logistic regression analysis. The prevalence of peripheral arterial occlusive disease was 34.3% (95%CI: 29.4-38.9). Mean age was 65.7 ± 9.4 years for patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease, and 60.3 ± 9.8 years for patients without peripheral arterial occlusive disease (P = 0.0000003). The prevalence of peripheral arterial occlusive disease was 1.57 times greater in patients with hypertension (P = 0.007) and 2.91 times greater in patients with coronary stenosis ³50% (P = 0.002). Illiterate patients and those with little education had a 44% higher chance of presenting peripheral arterial occlusive disease probably as a result of public health prevention policies of limited effectiveness. The prevalence of peripheral arterial occlusive disease in patients referred to a tertiary care hospital in Salvador, Bahia, for coronary angiography, was 34.3%.Hospital Agenor Paiva Serviço de Cirurgia VascularUniversidade Federal da Bahia Faculdade de Medicina Departamento de Medicina PreventivaUniversidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas Departamento de CirurgiaUniversidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) Escola Paulista de MedicinaUniversidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) Escola Paulista de Medicina Departamento de CirurgiaHospital Ana Nery Serviço de Cirurgia Vascular Departamento de Acessos para HemodiáliseEscola Baiana de Medicina e Saúde PúblicaUNIFESP, EPM, Depto. de CirurgiaSciEL

Degradação de α-Tocoferol, retinol e ácido ascórbico durante processamento e armazenamento de rações para camarão α-Tocopherol, retinol and ascorbic acid degradation during the processing and storage of shrimp food

O cultivo de camarão marinho é um setor de grande viabilidade econômica, principalmente na região Nordeste. Entretanto, a alimentação dos camarões é responsável pelo maior custo no cultivo desses crustáceos, a ração deve ser nutricionalmente eficiente, sendo indispensável a presença das vitaminas que são substâncias fundamentais para o funcionamento do organismo animal, e sua falta resulta frequentemente em crescimento e desenvolvimento deficiente. O retinol, -tocoferol e o ácido ascórbico são vitaminas que atuam em diversos processos metabólicos. São indispensáveis em rações animais porque são antioxidantes que auxiliam os animais contra o estresse oxidativo. Objetivou-se, neste trabalho, avaliar as perdas das vitaminas durante o processamento das dietas e no período de armazenagem. Foram formuladas oito dietas isoprotéicas com diferentes níveis de vitamina A, E e C que foram processadas com temperatura de até 80ºC. Após a fabricação e depois de 60 dias de armazenagem foram analisadas e quantificadas as vitaminas a fim de descobrir as perdas durante o processamento e após estocagem. Constatou-se que a vitamina A, que foi adicionada na dieta, foi perdida em até 99,56%. Já a vitamina E perdeu no máximo 93,5% e a vitamina C com 70% de perda, durante o processamento. Durante o período de armazenagem as perdas foram menores. Pode-se concluir que as vitaminas são extremamente sensíveis aos fatores que atuam durante a manufatura das dietas, ocasionando perdas consideráveis de vitaminas.<br>The farming of marine shrimp is a sector of great economic viability, mainly in the Northeast region of Brazil. However, feeding is responsible for the major cost in the farming of these crustaceans, so the food must be nutritiously efficient, since it is essential to the presence of vitamins which are vital substances to the functioning of the animal's organism where its lack frequently results in deficient growth and development. Retinol, -tocopherol, and ascorbic acid are vitamins that act in several metabolic processes, therefore they are indispensable in animal food due to their antioxidant effects that protect these animals against oxidative stress. The objective of this study was to evaluate the vitamin losses during the diet processing and in the storage period. Eight isoproteic diets were formulated with different levels of vitamin A, E and C that were processed with temperatures up to 70º C. After the production and 60 days of storage, the vitamins were analyzed and quantified in order to discover the losses during the processing and post-storage. It was observed that the vitamin A suffered loss of up to 99.56%, vitamin E had its maximum loss value of 93.5% and vitamin C with 70% of loss, during the processing. During the storage period the losses were lower. It can be concluded that the vitamins are extremely sensitive to the factors that occur during the production and food storage, causing considerable vitamin losses

Supernova neutrino burst detection with the deep underground neutrino experiment: DUNE Collaboration

The deep underground neutrino experiment (DUNE), a 40-kton underground liquid argon time projection chamber experiment, will be sensitive to the electron-neutrino flavor component of the burst of neutrinos expected from the next Galactic core-collapse supernova. Such an observation will bring unique insight into the astrophysics of core collapse as well as into the properties of neutrinos. The general capabilities of DUNE for neutrino detection in the relevant few- to few-tens-of-MeV neutrino energy range will be described. As an example, DUNE’s ability to constrain the νe spectral parameters of the neutrino burst will be considered. © 2021, The Author(s)

Long-baseline neutrino oscillation physics potential of the DUNE experiment: DUNE Collaboration

The sensitivity of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to neutrino oscillation is determined, based on a full simulation, reconstruction, and event selection of the far detector and a full simulation and parameterized analysis of the near detector. Detailed uncertainties due to the flux prediction, neutrino interaction model, and detector effects are included. DUNE will resolve the neutrino mass ordering to a precision of 5σ, for all δCP values, after 2 years of running with the nominal detector design and beam configuration. It has the potential to observe charge-parity violation in the neutrino sector to a precision of 3σ (5σ) after an exposure of 5 (10) years, for 50% of all δCP values. It will also make precise measurements of other parameters governing long-baseline neutrino oscillation, and after an exposure of 15 years will achieve a similar sensitivity to sin 22 θ13 to current reactor experiments. © 2020, The Author(s)

Deep underground neutrino experiment (DUNE) near detector conceptual design report

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is an international, world-class experiment aimed at exploring fundamental questions about the universe that are at the forefront of astrophysics and particle physics research. DUNE will study questions pertaining to the preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe, the dynamics of supernovae, the subtleties of neutrino interaction physics, and a number of beyond the Standard Model topics accessible in a powerful neutrino beam. A critical component of the DUNE physics program involves the study of changes in a powerful beam of neutrinos, i.e., neutrino oscillations, as the neutrinos propagate a long distance. The experiment consists of a near detector, sited close to the source of the beam, and a far detector, sited along the beam at a large distance. This document, the DUNE Near Detector Conceptual Design Report (CDR), describes the design of the DUNE near detector and the science program that drives the design and technology choices. The goals and requirements underlying the design, along with projected performance are given. It serves as a starting point for a more detailed design that will be described in future documents. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland