Ana Azevedo

TL;DR: There are important gaps in cardiovascular health-related knowledge in the Portuguese population and health education strategies and practices should be sensitive to the differences in health literacy described herein, in order to improve cardiovascular health knowledge among the Brazilian population.

TL;DR: BIS plays a role in maternal body weight after delivery and realistic body size goals may promote the motivation to lose weight and contribute to higher success in attaining them.

TL;DR: In conclusion, worsening renal function was significantly associated with a worse outcome and different definitions identified different patients at risk and increasing creatinine/urea performed better than decreasing estimated glomerular filtration rate.

TL;DR: The gender and regional specific patterns of consumption identified in Mozambique may contribute to the development of culturally adapted and locally grounded actions for tobacco control, and stress the need of locale-specific surveillance data and public health action in this field.

TL;DR: This study shows a lower sensitivity of histological assessment of H. pylori infection in Mozambican dyspeptic patients compared to the Portuguese, which may be explained by differences in the density of colonization, and may contribute to explain the heterogeneity in prevalence estimates across African settings.