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Ana Sá-Sousa
Researcher at University of Porto
Publications - 39
Citations - 794
Ana Sá-Sousa is an academic researcher from University of Porto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Asthma & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 26 publications receiving 602 citations.
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Validation of a questionnaire (CARAT10) to assess rhinitis and asthma in patients with asthma
João Fonseca,Luís Nogueira-Silva,Mário Morais-Almeida,Luís Filipe Azevedo,Ana Sá-Sousa,Manuel Branco-Ferreira,Lia Fernandes,Jean Bousquet +7 more
TL;DR: Validation of a questionnaire (CARAT10) to assess rhinitis and asthma in patients with asthma in customers with asthma is validated.
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The Portuguese Severe Asthma Registry: Development, Features, and Data Sharing Policies
Ana Sá-Sousa,João Fonseca,Ana Margarida Pereira,Ana Ferreira,Ana Arrobas,Ana Mendes,Marta Drummond,Wanda Videira,Tiago Costa,Pedro Farinha,José Soares,Pedro Rocha,Ana Todo-Bom,Anna Sokolova,António Costa,Beatriz Fernandes,Carla Chaves Loureiro,Cecília Longo,Cecília Pardal,Célia Costa,Cíntia Cruz,Cláudia Chaves Loureiro,Cláudia Chaves Loureiro,Cristina Lopes,Duarte Mesquita,Emília Faria,Eunice Magalhães,Fernando Menezes,Filipa Todo-Bom,Francisca Carvalho,Frederico S. Regateiro,Helena Falcão,Ivone Fernandes,João Gaspar-Marques,Jorge Viana,José Augusto Ferreira,José Manuel Silva,Laura Simão,Leonor Almeida,Lígia Fernandes,Lurdes Ferreira,Mafalda van Zeller,Márcia Quaresma,Margarida Castanho,Natália André,Nuno Cortesão,Paula Leiria-Pinto,Paula Leiria Pinto,Paula Rúbia Ferreira Rosa,Pedro Carreiro-Martins,Rita Gerardo,Rui Silva,Susana Lucas,Teresa Almeida,Teresa Calvo +54 more
TL;DR: The Portuguese Severe Asthma Registry (RAG) is a national web-based disease registry of severe asthma patients that allows prospective clinical data collection, promotes standardized care and collaborative clinical research, and may contribute to inform evidence-based healthcare policies for severe asthma.
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Prevalence of asthma in Portugal - The Portuguese National Asthma Survey
Ana Sá-Sousa,Mário Morais-Almeida,Luís Filipe Azevedo,Rosa Carvalho,Tiago Jacinto,Ana Todo-Bom,Carlos Loureiro,António Bugalho-Almeida,Jean Bousquet,João Fonseca +9 more
TL;DR: Current asthma affects 695 000 Portuguese, with a prevalence of 6.8%.
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Operational definitions of asthma in recent epidemiological studies are inconsistent
Ana Sá-Sousa,Tiago Jacinto,Luís Filipe Azevedo,Mário Morais-Almeida,Carlos Robalo-Cordeiro,António Bugalho-Almeida,Jean Bousquet,João Fonseca +7 more
TL;DR: There is considerable heterogeneity in the definitions of asthma used in epidemiological studies leading to highly variable estimates of asthma prevalence.
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Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test (CARAT) can be used to assess individual patients over time
João Fonseca,Luís Nogueira-Silva,Mário Morais-Almeida,Ana Sá-Sousa,Luís Filipe Azevedo,José Alberto Ferreira,Manuel Branco-Ferreira,Rodrigo Rodrigues-Alves,António Bugalho-Almeida,Jean Bousquet +9 more
TL;DR: CARAT10 has good test-retest reliability, responsiveness and longitudinal validity, and can be used to assess control of allergic rhinitis and asthma, both to compare groups in clinical studies and to evaluate individual patients in clinical practice.