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Francisco Caramelo

Researcher at University of Coimbra

Publications -  149
Citations -  1891

Francisco Caramelo 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 19, co-authored 117 publications receiving 1283 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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Using Resistin, glucose, age and BMI to predict the presence of breast cancer

TL;DR: Support vector machines models using Glucose, Resistin, Age and BMI as predictors allowed predicting the presence of breast cancer in women with sensitivity ranging between 82 and 88% and specificity ranging between 85 and 90%.
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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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Efficacy of Rapid Maxillary Expansion in the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: A Systematic Review With Meta-analysis

TL;DR: Increasingly the evidence indicates that RME devices reduce AHI in children with OSAS, making RME therapy an appropriate alternative treatment option for these patients.