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Joel Alves Lamounier
Researcher at Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei
Publications - 214
Citations - 3319
Joel Alves Lamounier is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Body mass index. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 206 publications receiving 3115 citations. Previous affiliations of Joel Alves Lamounier include Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
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Eating disorders in school children
João E M Vilela,Joel Alves Lamounier,Marcos A D Dellaretti Filho,José R Barros Neto,Gustavo M. Horta +4 more
TL;DR: A high prevalence of possible eating disorders and inappropriate eating behaviors in the study population, especially among female adolescents is observed, similar to those reported for developed countries.
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Prevalência de sobrepeso e obesidade nas regiões Nordeste e Sudeste do Brasil
TL;DR: Prevalence of overweight and obesity joined is higher among females and more than half of the women among 50 and 69 years old, from Northeast and Southeast regions of Brazil have overweight or obesity.
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Overweight and obesity prevalence among children and adolescents from Northeast and Southeast regions of Brazil
TL;DR: Overweight prevalence among adolescents was also lower in Northeast than in Southeast, and the prevalence of obesity among younger than 2 and older than 18 years old was the same; obesity prevalence is higher among breast-fed females.
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Etiology, clinical manifestations and concurrent findings in mouth-breathing children
Rubens Rafael Abreu,Regina Lunardi Rocha,Joel Alves Lamounier,Ângela Francisca Marques Guerra +3 more
TL;DR: Certain clinical manifestations are very common among mouth-breathing children and must be recognized and considered in the clinical diagnosis of mouth-Breathing.
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Prospective surveillance applying the national nosocomial infection surveillance methods in a Brazilian pediatric public hospital
Julia M. Maluf Lopes,E. Tonelli,Joel Alves Lamounier,Bráulio Roberto Gonçalves Marinho Couto,Arminda Lucia Siqueira,F. Komatsuzaki,A.P. Champs,Carlos Ernesto Ferreira Starling +7 more
TL;DR: Describing the epidemiology of nosocomial infections in this hospital enabled us to establish infection occurrence, distribution, and expected incidence, as well as to recognize trends and keep track of possible outbreaks.