Carlos Henrique Klein

TL;DR: The study indicates that the control of obesity would lower the prevalence of hypertension among Brazilian adolescents by 1/5 and the fractions of hypertension attributable to obesity in the population by 17.8%.

TL;DR: The study findings will be instrumental to the development of public policies aiming at the prevention of obesity, atherosclerotic diseases and diabetes in an adolescent population.

TL;DR: Serological screening and evaluation of exposure factors for Toxoplasma gondii transmission were conducted in 2126 pregnant women from southern Brazil and contact with soil was found to be the major factor for infection.

TL;DR: In this article, a serological screening and evaluation of exposure factors for Toxoplasma gondii transmission were conducted in 2126 pregnant women from southern Brazil, and specific antibodies were presented by 74.5% of the pregnant women evaluated.

TL;DR: The study population was stratified into 32 geographical strata and a sample of 1,251 schools was selected with probability proportional to size, and the design sampling weights were calculated by the product of the reciprocals of the inclusion probabilities in each sampling stage.