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Josélia Oliveira Araújo Firmo

Researcher at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

Publications -  146
Citations -  4256

Josélia Oliveira Araújo Firmo is an academic researcher from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cohort study. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 126 publications receiving 3837 citations. Previous affiliations of Josélia Oliveira Araújo Firmo include Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

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Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment.

Goodarz Danaei, +340 more
- 01 Jan 2014 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data for exposure to risk factors by country, age group, and sex from pooled analyses of population-based health surveys and obtained relative risks for the eff ects of risk factors on cause-specifi c mortality from meta-analyses of large prospective studies.
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Validity of self-reported hypertension and its determinants (the Bambuí study)

Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa, +5 more
- 01 Oct 2004 - 
TL;DR: The results of this study show that self-reported hypertension is an appropriate indicator of hypertension prevalence, even in a population not living in a large urban center.
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Hypertension and clustering of cardiovascular risk factors in a community in Southeast Brazil: the Bambuí Health and Ageing Study

Sandhi Maria Barreto, +5 more
- 01 Dec 2001 - 
TL;DR: The results reinforce the need to increase detection and treatment of hypertension and to approach patients' global risk profiles with a greater focus on older adults.
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The structure of self-rated health among older adults: the Bambuí health and ageing study (BHAS)

Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa, +5 more
- 01 Dec 2004 - 
TL;DR: The results show that self-rated health among older adults is multidimensional in structure, being influenced by socioeconomic conditions, social support, health status (with emphasis on mental health), and access to/use of healthcare services.
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Bipolar disorder prevalence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature.

Adauto Silva Clemente, +6 more
- 01 May 2015 - 
TL;DR: It is confirmed that estimates of BD type 1 and type 2 prevalence are low in the general population and the increase in prevalence from DSM- III and DSM-III-R to DSM-IV may reflect different factors, such as minor changes in diagnostic operationalization, use of different assessment instruments, or even a genuine increase in the prevalence of BD.