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Bárbara Oliveiros
Researcher at University of Coimbra
Publications - 86
Citations - 1213
Bárbara Oliveiros is an academic researcher from University of Coimbra. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 67 publications receiving 916 citations.
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Role of temperature and humidity in the modulation of the doubling time of COVID-19 cases
TL;DR: Results indicate that the doubling time correlates positively with temperature and inversely with humidity, suggesting that a decrease in the rate of progression of COVID-19 with the arrival of spring and summer in the north hemisphere.
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Estimation of risk factors for COVID-19 mortality - preliminary results
TL;DR: It is found that age is the variable that presents higher risk of COVID-19 mortality, where 60 or older patients have an OR = 18.8161 (CI95%[7.1997; 41.5517]).
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Human Health Risk Assessment Due to Agricultural Activities and Crop Consumption in the Surroundings of an Industrial Area
Marina M.S. Cabral-Pinto,Manuela Inácio,Orquídia Neves,Agostinho Almeida,Edgar Pinto,Bárbara Oliveiros,Eduardo Ferreira da Silva +6 more
TL;DR: It is likely that hair As and Hg concentrations increases in both children and adults can be related to the ingestion of agricultural soil and cabbage, and inhalation or dermal contact with contaminated soil, and this assumption requires further investigation, including on other potential sources of contaminants for the local population.
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The Role of the Amygdala in Facial Trustworthiness Processing: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of fMRI Studies
TL;DR: The role of amygdala in facial trustworthiness judgment is supported, emphasizing its predominant role during processing of negative social signals in (untrustworthy) faces and little consistency exists among studies’ methodology.
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Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction play a role in myelodysplastic syndrome development, diagnosis, and prognosis: A pilot study
Ana Cristina Gonçalves,E. Cortesão,Bárbara Oliveiros,Vera Alves,A. I. Espadana,L. Rito,Emília Magalhães,Maria João Lobão,Amélia Pereira,J M Nascimento Costa,Luisa Mota-Vieira,Ana Bela Sarmento-Ribeiro +11 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction are involved in MDS development, and that oxidative Stress parameters may constitute novel diagnosis and/or prognosis biomarkers for MDS.