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    Subconjunto terminológico da CIPE® para assistência à mulher e à criança em processo de amamentação

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    Objetivo: Descrever o processo de elaboração de um subconjunto terminológico da Classificação Internacional para a Prática de Enfermagem para assistência à mulher e à criança em processo de amamentação. Método: Estudo metodológico desenvolvido em seis etapas seguindo as diretrizes recomendadas pelo Conselho Internacional de Enfermeiras(os). Resultado: Foram elaborados 74 diagnósticos/resultados e 213 intervenções de enfermagem, classificados de acordo com o modelo teórico utilizado, a “Teoria Interativa de Amamentação”. Conclusão: Acredita-se que o subconjunto poderá orientar de forma segura e sistemática os enfermeiros que trabalham na área materno-infantil, favorecendo a execução do Processo de Enfermagem e promovendo a qualidade da assistência, centrada na mulher, na criança e na família que estão vivenciando o processo de amamentação.Palavras-chave: Amamentação. Diagnóstico de enfermagem. Classificação. Processo de enfermagem. Teoria de enfermagem. Terminologia

    New regimens of benznidazole monotherapy and in combination with fosravuconazole for treatment of Chagas disease (BENDITA): a phase 2, double-blind, randomised trial

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    Background: Current treatment for Chagas disease with the only available drugs, benznidazole or nifurtimox, has substantial limitations, including long treatment duration and safety and tolerability concerns. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of new benznidazole monotherapy regimens and combinations with fosravuconazole, in the treatment of Chagas disease. Methods: We did a double-blind, double-dummy, phase 2, multicentre, randomised trial in three outpatient units in Bolivia. Adults aged 18–50 years with chronic indeterminate Chagas disease, confirmed by serological testing and positive qualitative PCR results, were randomly assigned (1:1:1:1:1:1:1) to one of seven treatment groups using a balanced block randomisation scheme with an interactive response system. Participants were assigned to benznidazole 300 mg daily for 8 weeks, 4 weeks, or 2 weeks, benznidazole 150 mg daily for 4 weeks, benznidazole 150 mg daily for 4 weeks plus fosravuconazole, benznidazole 300 mg once per week for 8 weeks plus fosravuconazole, or placebo, with a 12-month follow-up period. The primary endpoints were sustained parasitological clearance at 6 months, defined as persistent negative qualitative PCR results from end of treatment, and incidence and severity of treatment-emergent adverse events, serious adverse events, and adverse events leading to treatment discontinuation. Primary efficacy analysis was based on the intention-to-treat and per-protocol populations and secondary efficacy analyses on the per-protocol population. Safety analyses were based on the as-treated population. Recruitment is now closed. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03378661. Findings: Between Nov 30, 2016, and July 27, 2017, we screened 518 patients, and 210 were enrolled and randomised. 30 patients (14%) were assigned to each treatment group. All 210 randomised patients were included in the intention-to-treat population, and 190 (90%) were included in the per-protocol population. In the intention-to-treat analysis, only one (3%) of 30 patients in the placebo group had sustained parasitological clearance at 6 months of follow-up. Sustained parasitological clearance at 6 months was observed in 25 (89%) of 28 patients receiving benznidazole 300 mg daily for 8 weeks (rate difference vs placebo 86% [95% CI 73–99]), 25 (89%) of 28 receiving benznidazole 300 mg daily for 4 weeks (86% [73–99]), 24 (83%) of 29 receiving benznidazole 300 mg daily for 2 weeks (79% [64–95]), 25 (83%) of 30 receiving benznidazole 150 mg daily for 4 weeks (80% [65–95]), 23 (85%) of 28 receiving benznidazole 150 mg daily for 4 weeks plus fosravuconazole (82% [67–97]), and 24 (83%) of 29 receiving benznidazole 300 mg weekly for 8 weeks plus fosravuconazole (79% [64–95]; p<0·0001 for all group comparisons with placebo). Six patients (3%) had ten serious adverse events (leukopenia [n=3], neutropenia [n=2], pyrexia, maculopapular rash, acute cholecystitis, biliary polyp, and breast cancer), eight had 12 severe adverse events (defined as interfering substantially with the patient's usual functions; elevated alanine aminotransferase [n=4], elevated gamma-glutamyltransferase [n=2], elevated aspartate aminotransferase [n=1], neutropenia [n=3], leukopenia [n=1], and breast cancer [n=1]), and 15 (7%) had adverse events that led to treatment discontinuation (most of these were in the groups who received benznidazole 300 mg daily for 8 weeks, benznidazole 300 mg once per week for 8 weeks plus fosravuconazole, and benznidazole 150 mg daily for 4 weeks plus fosravuconazole). No adverse events leading to treatment discontinuation were observed in patients treated with benznidazole 300 mg daily for 2 weeks or placebo. There were no treatment-related deaths. Interpretation: Benznidazole induced effective antiparasitic response, regardless of treatment duration, dose, or combination with fosravuconazole, and was well tolerated in adult patients with chronic Chagas disease. Shorter or reduced regimens of benznidazole could substantially improve treatment tolerability and accessibility, but further studies are needed to confirm these results. Funding: Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi). Translation: For the Spanish translation of the abstract see Supplementary Materials section.Fil: Torrico, Faustino. Fundación Ciencia y Estudios Aplicados para el Desarrollo en Salud y Medio Ambiente; Bolivia. Universidad Mayor de San Simón; BoliviaFil: Gascón, Joaquim. Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona; España. Universidad de Barcelona; EspañaFil: Barreira, Fabiana. DNDi Latin America; BrasilFil: Blum, Bethania. DNDi Latin America; BrasilFil: Almeida, Igor C. University of Texas at El Paso; Estados UnidosFil: Alonso Vega, Cristina. DNDi Latin America; Brasil. Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona; EspañaFil: Barboza, Tayná. DNDi Latin America; BrasilFil: Bilbe, Graeme. Drugs For Neglected Diseases Initiative; SuizaFil: Correia, Erika. DNDi Latin America; BrasilFil: Garcia, Wilson. Universidad Mayor de San Simón; Bolivia. Fundación Ciencia y Estudios Aplicados para el Desarrollo en Salud y Medio Ambiente ; BoliviaFil: Ortiz, Lourdes. Universidad Autónoma Juan Misael Saracho; Bolivia. Fundación Ciencia y Estudios Aplicados para el Desarrollo en Salud y Medio Ambiente; BoliviaFil: Parrado, Rudy. Universidad Mayor de San Simón; BoliviaFil: Ramirez Gomez, Juan Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Dirección Nacional de Instituto de Investigación. Administración Nacional de Laboratorio e Instituto de Salud "Dr. C. G. Malbrán". Instituto Nacional de Parasitología "Dr. Mario Fatala Chaben"; ArgentinaFil: Ribeiro, Isabela. Drugs For Neglected Diseases Initiative; SuizaFil: Strub Wourgaft, Nathalie. Drugs For Neglected Diseases Initiative; SuizaFil: Vaillant, Michel. Luxembourg Institute Of Health; LuxemburgoFil: Sosa-Estani, Sergio Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Centro de Investigaciones en Epidemiología y Salud Pública. Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria. Centro de Investigaciones en Epidemiología y Salud Pública; Argentina. DNDi Latin America; Brasi

    ALTERAÇÕES GASTROINTESTINAIS E ESTADO NUTRICIONAL DE PACIENTES ONCOLÓGICOS EM TRATAMENTO QUIMIOTERÁPICO

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    Introdução: A quimioterapia é utilizada para controlar, reduzir ou eliminar tumores cancerígenos. Porém, os fármacos utilizadosdurante este tratamento podem causar alterações gastrointestinais que podem comprometer o estado nutricional dosindivíduos. Objetivo: Analisar a correlação das alterações gastrointestinais com o estado nutricional de pacientes oncológicosem tratamento quimioterápico. Método: O estudo foi do tipo transversal analítico, com coleta de dados secundária de prontuáriosde pacientes internados em um Hospital de Oncologia. A amostragem foi do tipo não probabilística. As variáveis analisadasforam: sexo, faixa etária, estado civil, procedência, localização tumoral e grau das alterações gastrointestinais. Estes dadosforam analisados a partir das fichas de Avaliação Subjetiva Global Produzida Pelo Paciente. Resultados: Dos 86 prontuáriosanalisados, a maioria dos pacientes encontrava-se desnutrida (51,2%) e destes 66,0% eram do sexo feminino, 59,0% adultos,54,6% sem companheiro e 52,3% procedentes de São Luís e/ou Região metropolitana. O sítio tumoral mais prevalente foi odigestivo (31,4%) e as alterações gastrointestinais predominantes foram diarreia e dor (40,7%), principalmente nos pacientesdesnutridos (66,0%). Conclusão: Houve correlação moderada e positiva entre as alterações gastrointestinais e o estado nutricionaldos pacientes. Sugerindo que quanto maior for a gravidade destas alterações, maiores serão os prejuízos no estado nutricionaldos mesmos.Palavras-chave: Câncer. Tratamento Farmacológico. Sinais e Sintomas Digestórios. Estado Nutricional

    Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

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    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

    Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

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    Optimasi Portofolio Resiko Menggunakan Model Markowitz MVO Dikaitkan dengan Keterbatasan Manusia dalam Memprediksi Masa Depan dalam Perspektif Al-Qur`an

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    Risk portfolio on modern finance has become increasingly technical, requiring the use of sophisticated mathematical tools in both research and practice. Since companies cannot insure themselves completely against risk, as human incompetence in predicting the future precisely that written in Al-Quran surah Luqman verse 34, they have to manage it to yield an optimal portfolio. The objective here is to minimize the variance among all portfolios, or alternatively, to maximize expected return among all portfolios that has at least a certain expected return. Furthermore, this study focuses on optimizing risk portfolio so called Markowitz MVO (Mean-Variance Optimization). Some theoretical frameworks for analysis are arithmetic mean, geometric mean, variance, covariance, linear programming, and quadratic programming. Moreover, finding a minimum variance portfolio produces a convex quadratic programming, that is minimizing the objective function ðð¥with constraintsð ð 𥠥 ðandð´ð¥ = ð. The outcome of this research is the solution of optimal risk portofolio in some investments that could be finished smoothly using MATLAB R2007b software together with its graphic analysis

    Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

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    Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio

    Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-Adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017 : A systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study

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    Importance: Cancer and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are now widely recognized as a threat to global development. The latest United Nations high-level meeting on NCDs reaffirmed this observation and also highlighted the slow progress in meeting the 2011 Political Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and the third Sustainable Development Goal. Lack of situational analyses, priority setting, and budgeting have been identified as major obstacles in achieving these goals. All of these have in common that they require information on the local cancer epidemiology. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study is uniquely poised to provide these crucial data. Objective: To describe cancer burden for 29 cancer groups in 195 countries from 1990 through 2017 to provide data needed for cancer control planning. Evidence Review: We used the GBD study estimation methods to describe cancer incidence, mortality, years lived with disability, years of life lost, and disability-Adjusted life-years (DALYs). Results are presented at the national level as well as by Socio-demographic Index (SDI), a composite indicator of income, educational attainment, and total fertility rate. We also analyzed the influence of the epidemiological vs the demographic transition on cancer incidence. Findings: In 2017, there were 24.5 million incident cancer cases worldwide (16.8 million without nonmelanoma skin cancer [NMSC]) and 9.6 million cancer deaths. The majority of cancer DALYs came from years of life lost (97%), and only 3% came from years lived with disability. The odds of developing cancer were the lowest in the low SDI quintile (1 in 7) and the highest in the high SDI quintile (1 in 2) for both sexes. In 2017, the most common incident cancers in men were NMSC (4.3 million incident cases); tracheal, bronchus, and lung (TBL) cancer (1.5 million incident cases); and prostate cancer (1.3 million incident cases). The most common causes of cancer deaths and DALYs for men were TBL cancer (1.3 million deaths and 28.4 million DALYs), liver cancer (572000 deaths and 15.2 million DALYs), and stomach cancer (542000 deaths and 12.2 million DALYs). For women in 2017, the most common incident cancers were NMSC (3.3 million incident cases), breast cancer (1.9 million incident cases), and colorectal cancer (819000 incident cases). The leading causes of cancer deaths and DALYs for women were breast cancer (601000 deaths and 17.4 million DALYs), TBL cancer (596000 deaths and 12.6 million DALYs), and colorectal cancer (414000 deaths and 8.3 million DALYs). Conclusions and Relevance: The national epidemiological profiles of cancer burden in the GBD study show large heterogeneities, which are a reflection of different exposures to risk factors, economic settings, lifestyles, and access to care and screening. The GBD study can be used by policy makers and other stakeholders to develop and improve national and local cancer control in order to achieve the global targets and improve equity in cancer care. © 2019 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.Peer reviewe
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