Transtorno bipolar em crianças: análise de relato de caso 2018-2023

O transtorno bipolar em crianças é uma realidade clínica que demanda atenção especializada. A compreensão dos sintomas, fatores de risco, prevalência e desafios diagnósticos é fundamental para proporcionar intervenções precoces e adequadas, visando melhorar a qualidade de vida desses jovens e reduzir o impacto a longo prazo dessa condição psiquiátrica. Trata-se de um estudo cujo objetivo foi objetivo revisar relatos de caso publicados entre 2018 e 2023 sobre transtorno bipolar em crianças, identificando o estado da arte desses estudos. Para isso, se realizou uma revisão sistemática de literatura utilizando as bases de dados Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS) e Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO). Com a análise e interpretação qualitativa dos resultados, a principal conclusão deste estudo é que o transtorno bipolar na infância é uma condição complexa, manifestando-se com comportamentos consistentes com o Transtorno de Conduta e sendo influenciado por fatores ambientais, familiares e genéticos. O tratamento eficaz requer uma abordagem multidisciplinar, integrando intervenções farmacológicas e não farmacológicas, personalizadas conforme as necessidades individuais. A supervisão familiar é crucial para a adesão ao tratamento, mas reconhece-se a necessidade contínua de pesquisa para aprimorar as estratégias terapêuticas diante da diversidade de casos

Estimulação cerebral profunda na Doença de Parkinson: evidências de estudos de longa duração

A Doença de Parkinson (DP) é uma condição neurodegenerativa crônica que afeta principalmente idosos, mas pode ocorrer em adultos jovens. É a segunda doença neurodegenerativa mais comum, após o Alzheimer. A DP afeta 1% dos indivíduos acima de 60 anos em países industrializados. Sua causa envolve fatores genéticos e ambientais, como exposição a pesticidas e envelhecimento. A Estimulação Cerebral Profunda (DBS) é um tratamento que simula lesões cerebrais, melhorando sintomas motores e não motores. O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar evidências de estudos sobre a eficácia da DBS no tratamento da DP. Trata-se de uma revisão sistemática de estudos quantitativos que utiliza as bases de dados PubMed (Medline), Cochrane Library e Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) para selecionar artigos científicos. Os estudos incluídos abrangem o período de 2013 a 2023 e estão em inglês, abordando a DBS no tratamento da DP. A DBS melhora diversos sintomas motores e não motores, resultando em uma melhor qualidade de vida para os pacientes. Tais benefícios são sustentados mesmo em estágios avançados da Doença de Parkinson, a qual consiste em fornecer pulsos de corrente elétrica a áreas cerebrais profundas através de eletrodos implantados cirurgicamente, geralmente quando a terapia medicamentosa já não é eficaz. Em um estudo com 82 pacientes, a terapia com DBS resultou em uma redução de ± 52% nos sintomas motores do UPDRS sob medicação antes da cirurgia. A melhora nos sintomas motores com a estimulação, em comparação com a ausência de estimulação e medicação, foi de ± 61% no primeiro ano e ± 39% de 8 a 15 anos após a cirurgia (antes da reprogramação). A medicação foi reduzida em ± 55% após 1 ano e ± 44% após 8 a 15 anos, com a maioria dos pacientes mostrando melhorias após a reprogramação. De acordo com as literaturas analisadas, a DBS é uma terapia eficaz para a DP. Enfatiza-se a importância da inovação contínua e dos novos estudos para explorar as facetas não investigadas desse campo. Com a abordagem dos aspectos clínicos, cirúrgicos, tecnológicos e científicos, destacam-se os benefícios, limitações e desafios a serem superados. Ademais, inovações tecnológicas na DBS, como a estimulação direcional, adaptativa e a telemedicina estão sendo exploradas. Em suma, este artigo fornece evidências sobre os benefícios da DBS na DP, ressaltando a necessidade de pesquisas adicionais para otimizar tal intervenção terapêutica e melhorar a qualidade de vida dos pacientes

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Educomunicação e suas áreas de intervenção: Novos paradigmas para o diálogo intercultural

oai:omp.abpeducom.org.br:publicationFormat/1O material aqui divulgado representa, em essência, a contribuição do VII Encontro Brasileiro de Educomunicação ao V Global MIL Week, da UNESCO, ocorrido na ECA/USP, entre 3 e 5 de novembro de 2016. Estamos diante de um conjunto de 104 papers executivos, com uma média de entre 7 e 10 páginas, cada um. Com este rico e abundante material, chegamos ao sétimo e-book publicado pela ABPEducom, em seus seis primeiros anos de existência. A especificidade desta obra é a de trazer as “Áreas de Intervenção” do campo da Educomunicação, colocando-as a serviço de uma meta essencial ao agir educomunicativo: o diálogo intercultural, trabalhado na linha do tema geral do evento internacional: Media and Information Literacy: New Paradigms for Intercultural Dialogue

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5,6,7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepresented in biodiversity databases.13,14,15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple organism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region's vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most neglected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lost

Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants.

BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blood pressure treatment. We defined hypertension as having systolic blood pressure 140 mm Hg or greater, diastolic blood pressure 90 mm Hg or greater, or taking medication for hypertension. We applied a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and the proportion of people with hypertension who had a previous diagnosis (detection), who were taking medication for hypertension (treatment), and whose hypertension was controlled to below 140/90 mm Hg (control). The model allowed for trends over time to be non-linear and to vary by age. FINDINGS: The number of people aged 30-79 years with hypertension doubled from 1990 to 2019, from 331 (95% credible interval 306-359) million women and 317 (292-344) million men in 1990 to 626 (584-668) million women and 652 (604-698) million men in 2019, despite stable global age-standardised prevalence. In 2019, age-standardised hypertension prevalence was lowest in Canada and Peru for both men and women; in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and some countries in western Europe including Switzerland, Spain, and the UK for women; and in several low-income and middle-income countries such as Eritrea, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Solomon Islands for men. Hypertension prevalence surpassed 50% for women in two countries and men in nine countries, in central and eastern Europe, central Asia, Oceania, and Latin America. Globally, 59% (55-62) of women and 49% (46-52) of men with hypertension reported a previous diagnosis of hypertension in 2019, and 47% (43-51) of women and 38% (35-41) of men were treated. Control rates among people with hypertension in 2019 were 23% (20-27) for women and 18% (16-21) for men. In 2019, treatment and control rates were highest in South Korea, Canada, and Iceland (treatment >70%; control >50%), followed by the USA, Costa Rica, Germany, Portugal, and Taiwan. Treatment rates were less than 25% for women and less than 20% for men in Nepal, Indonesia, and some countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania. Control rates were below 10% for women and men in these countries and for men in some countries in north Africa, central and south Asia, and eastern Europe. Treatment and control rates have improved in most countries since 1990, but we found little change in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania. Improvements were largest in high-income countries, central Europe, and some upper-middle-income and recently high-income countries including Costa Rica, Taiwan, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Brazil, Chile, Turkey, and Iran. INTERPRETATION: Improvements in the detection, treatment, and control of hypertension have varied substantially across countries, with some middle-income countries now outperforming most high-income nations. The dual approach of reducing hypertension prevalence through primary prevention and enhancing its treatment and control is achievable not only in high-income countries but also in low-income and middle-income settings. FUNDING: WHO

Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

Background Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. Methods We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blood pressure treatment. We defined hypertension as having systolic blood pressure 140 mm Hg or greater, diastolic blood pressure 90 mm Hg or greater, or taking medication for hypertension. We applied a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and the proportion of people with hypertension who had a previous diagnosis (detection), who were taking medication for hypertension (treatment), and whose hypertension was controlled to below 140/90 mm Hg (control). The model allowed for trends over time to be non-linear and to vary by age. Findings The number of people aged 30-79 years with hypertension doubled from 1990 to 2019, from 331 (95% credible interval 306-359) million women and 317 (292-344) million men in 1990 to 626 (584-668) million women and 652 (604-698) million men in 2019, despite stable global age-standardised prevalence. In 2019, age-standardised hypertension prevalence was lowest in Canada and Peru for both men and women; in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and some countries in western Europe including Switzerland, Spain, and the UK for women; and in several low-income and middle-income countries such as Eritrea, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Solomon Islands for men. Hypertension prevalence surpassed 50% for women in two countries and men in nine countries, in central and eastern Europe, central Asia, Oceania, and Latin America. Globally, 59% (55-62) of women and 49% (46-52) of men with hypertension reported a previous diagnosis of hypertension in 2019, and 47% (43-51) of women and 38% (35-41) of men were treated. Control rates among people with hypertension in 2019 were 23% (20-27) for women and 18% (16-21) for men. In 2019, treatment and control rates were highest in South Korea, Canada, and Iceland (treatment >70%; control >50%), followed by the USA, Costa Rica, Germany, Portugal, and Taiwan. Treatment rates were less than 25% for women and less than 20% for men in Nepal, Indonesia, and some countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania. Control rates were below 10% for women and men in these countries and for men in some countries in north Africa, central and south Asia, and eastern Europe. Treatment and control rates have improved in most countries since 1990, but we found little change in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania. Improvements were largest in high-income countries, central Europe, and some upper-middle-income and recently high-income countries including Costa Rica, Taiwan, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Brazil, Chile, Turkey, and Iran. Interpretation Improvements in the detection, treatment, and control of hypertension have varied substantially across countries, with some middle-income countries now outperforming most high-income nations. The dual approach of reducing hypertension prevalence through primary prevention and enhancing its treatment and control is achievable not only in high-income countries but also in low-income and middle-income settings. Copyright (C) 2021 World Health Organization; licensee Elsevier

Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

Background Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. Methods We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30–79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blood pressure treatment. We defined hypertension as having systolic blood pressure 140 mm Hg or greater, diastolic blood pressure 90 mm Hg or greater, or taking medication for hypertension. We applied a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and the proportion of people with hypertension who had a previous diagnosis (detection), who were taking medication for hypertension (treatment), and whose hypertension was controlled to below 140/90 mm Hg (control). The model allowed for trends over time to be non-linear and to vary by age. Findings The number of people aged 30–79 years with hypertension doubled from 1990 to 2019, from 331 (95% credible interval 306–359) million women and 317 (292–344) million men in 1990 to 626 (584–668) million women and 652 (604–698) million men in 2019, despite stable global age-standardised prevalence. In 2019, age-standardised hypertension prevalence was lowest in Canada and Peru for both men and women; in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and some countries in western Europe including Switzerland, Spain, and the UK for women; and in several low-income and middle-income countries such as Eritrea, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Solomon Islands for men. Hypertension prevalence surpassed 50% for women in two countries and men in nine countries, in central and eastern Europe, central Asia, Oceania, and Latin America. Globally, 59% (55–62) of women and 49% (46–52) of men with hypertension reported a previous diagnosis of hypertension in 2019, and 47% (43–51) of women and 38% (35–41) of men were treated. Control rates among people with hypertension in 2019 were 23% (20–27) for women and 18% (16–21) for men. In 2019, treatment and control rates were highest in South Korea, Canada, and Iceland (treatment >70%; control >50%), followed by the USA, Costa Rica, Germany, Portugal, and Taiwan. Treatment rates were less than 25% for women and less than 20% for men in Nepal, Indonesia, and some countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania. Control rates were below 10% for women and men in these countries and for men in some countries in north Africa, central and south Asia, and eastern Europe. Treatment and control rates have improved in most countries since 1990, but we found little change in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania. Improvements were largest in high-income countries, central Europe, and some upper-middle-income and recently high-income countries including Costa Rica, Taiwan, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Brazil, Chile, Turkey, and Iran. Interpretation Improvements in the detection, treatment, and control of hypertension have varied substantially across countries, with some middle-income countries now outperforming most high-income nations. The dual approach of reducing hypertension prevalence through primary prevention and enhancing its treatment and control is achievable not only in high-income countries but also in low-income and middle-income settings

Cervical dystonia and physical therapy: a case study of 20 subjects

INTRODUÇÃO: Apesar da terapia com toxina botulínica ser o tratamento de escolha para a distonia cervical, admite-se que um tratamento multidisciplinar, agregando a fisioterapia ao tratamento com toxina botulínica, poderia acrescentar maiores benefícios aos pacientes com distonia cervical; sendo assim, o objetivo primário deste estudo foi avaliar o efeito da associação da toxina botulínica a um protocolo de fisioterapia na gravidade da distonia cervical, incapacidade e dor; e o objetivo secundário foi avaliar o efeito desta associação na qualidade de vida de pacientes com distonia cervical. MÉTODOS: Participaram deste estudo controlado aberto quarenta de setenta pacientes com distonia cervical, tratados no Ambulatório de Distúrbios do Movimento do Departamento de Neurologia da Faculdade de Medicina do Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo. Antes de serem submetidos à aplicação da toxina botulínica, os pacientes foram avaliados por um médico da equipe, e esperava-se que neste dia os pacientes estivessem sem a ação da medicação. Todos os pacientes avaliados foram convidados a participar do programa de fisioterapia, e conforme a disponibilidade de aderir ao programa dos mesmos, chegou-se ao número de vinte pacientes em G1 (fisioterapia e toxina botulínica) e vinte pacientes em G2 (toxina botulínica), sendo esta amostra de conveniência. Para G2, foram escolhidos os primeiros vinte pacientes consecutivos que não poderiam aderir ao programa fisioterapêutico. Os pacientes de G1 e G2 foram reavaliados após quarenta e cinco dias. As escalas utilizadas foram a Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS) e a Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36). Foi proposto um novo modelo de tratamento para pacientes com distonia cervical que seriam submetidos a um protocolo fisioterapêutico, baseado em três principais abordagens: aprendizagem motora, cinesioterapia e estimulação elétrica funcional na musculatura antagonista ao padrão distônico. Os pacientes de G1 foram tratados por um período de quatro semanas, a frequência era diária (cinco vezes por semana) e a duração da sessão em média uma hora e quinze minutos. RESULTADOS: As características demográficas iniciais dos indivíduos não diferiram significativamente entre os dois grupos tratados, em apenas um dos itens avaliados (tempo de tratamento) houve diferença entre grupos no momento inicial. Os resultados dos tratamentos na qualidade de vida foram avaliados pela escala SF-36, esta dividida em dois grandes domínios: aspectos físicos e aspectos emocionais. Em relação aos aspectos físicos, G1 apresentou melhora significativa comparando-se antes e depois do tratamento (intragrupo) em três subdomínios: capacidade funcional, limitação por aspectos físicos e dor; em G2 não houve melhora significativa em nenhum dos quatro subdomínios. Houve também uma diferença entre G1 e G2 depois dos tratamentos (entre grupos) em dois subdomínios: limitação por aspectos físicos e dor. Em relação aos aspectos emocionais, em G1, houve melhora significativa nos seguintes subdomínios depois do tratamento (intragrupo): vitalidade, aspectos sociais e saúde mental. Houve também uma diferença entre G1 e G2 depois dos tratamentos (entre grupos) em dois subdomínios: vitalidade e saúde mental. Não houve melhora em G2 nos subdomínios dos aspectos emocionais. A avaliação das características e gravidade da distonia cervical, medida pela TWSTRS, demonstrou melhora significativa de G1 e G2 após os tratamentos que foram submetidos (intra grupos) em duas subescalas: gravidade (I) e incapacidade (II). Na subescala de dor (III), apenas G1 apresentou melhora intragrupo após o tratamento a que foi submetido; houve também, neste mesmo subdomínio, diferença significativa entre G1 e G2 depois dos tratamentos, entre grupos. CONCLUSÕES: O presente estudo avaliou possibilidade de que a utilização da toxina botulínica, junto a um protocolo de fisioterapia facilmente reprodutível, poderia agregar melhoras em sintomas como gravidade da doença, incapacidade, dor e qualidade de vida de uma população de indivíduos com distonia cervical, e os resultados obtidos permitiram negar as hipóteses nulas. Novas pesquisas são necessárias para confirmar esses achados e solidificar a reabilitação neurológica como um tratamento eficaz no manejo da distonia cervicalINTRODUCTION: Despite the fact that therapy with botulinum toxin is considered the best treatment for cervical dystonia, it is assumed that a multidisciplinary treatment, adding physical therapy to the botulinum toxin treatment could provide additional gains to patients with cervical dystonia. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of the combination of botulinum toxin and physical therapy on severity of cervical dystonia, disability and pain. The secondary objective was to evaluate the effect of this combination on the quality of life in patients with cervical dystonia. METHODS: forty patients of seventy with cervical dystonia from the Ambulatório de Distúrbios do Movimento do Departamento de Neurologia da Faculdade de Medicina do Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo attended this open- controlled study. Before receiving an application of botulinum toxin, the patients were evaluated by a neurologist and it was assumed that patients were not under any effect of the medication (botulinum toxin). All patients were asked to participate in a physical therapy program, and according to the patients availability to join the program, we reached the number of twenty patients in G1 (physical therapy and botulinum toxin) and in G2 (botulinum toxin only), the first twenty consecutive patients who couldnt participate in the physical therapy program were chosen. This was a convenience sample. Patients of G1 and G2 were revaluated after forty five days, and the evaluation scales used was the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS) and Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36). A new model of physical therapy treatment was applied to patients with cervical dystonia, and it was based on three main approaches: motor learning, kinesiotherapy and functional electrical stimulation on the antagonist muscles of the dystonic pattern. The patients in G1 were treated daily for a period of four weeks, and each session lasted one hour and fifteen minutes. RESULTS: The demographic characteristics of individuals didnt differ significantly between two treated groups, but there was a difference between groups in the initial moment (baseline) in only one feature evaluated (time of treatment). The SF-36 scale was used to evaluate the results of the treatments for quality of life, and was divided into two big domains: physical and emotional aspects. When analyzing physical aspects, G1 showed a significant improvement when comparing before and after the proposed treatment (inside group) in three subdomains: physical functioning, role-physical and body pain; in G2 there was no improvement in any of the four subdomains. A difference between G1 and G2, after the treatments (between groups), was also seen in two subdomains: role-physical and body pain. In relation to emotional aspects, in G1, after the treatment (intra-group), there was a significantly improvement in vitality, social functioning and mental health. There was also a difference between G1 and G2 after the treatment (between groups) in two subdomains: vitality and mental health. There was no improvement in G2 in any domains of the social aspects. Severity of cervical dystonia showed a significant improvement of G1 and G2 after treatments (intra-group) in two subdomains: severity (I) and disability (II). In subscale pain (III), only patients of G1 showed a significant improvement intra-group after the treatment; in this subdomain there was also a significant difference between groups after the treatments (G1 and G2). CONCLUSIONS: The present study showed that botulinum toxin, combined with an easily reproducible physical therapy protocol, could improve symptoms like severity of cervical dystonia, disability, pain and quality of life, in a population of individuals with cervical dystonia, and these results makes it possible to deny the null hypothesis. Other studies are needed to confirm these findings and solidify neurologic rehabilitation as an effective cervical dystonia treatment approac