Maria Carmen Viana

TL;DR: Depression and impulse control disorders (eating disorders in particular) were significantly associated with diabetes diagnosis after comorbidity adjustment, and these findings support the focus on depression as having a role in diabetes onset, but suggest that this focus may be extended towards impulse control Disorders.

TL;DR: Regular alcohol users with alcohol-related disturbances are more likely to be found where area-level neighborhood characteristics reflect social disadvantage, and associations are strong enough to warrant future longitudinal alcohol studies to explore causal mechanisms related to the heterogeneous patterns of association and male-female variations observed herein.

TL;DR: The Sao Paulo Megacity Mental Health Survey as discussed by the authors is a population-based cross-sectional survey of psychiatric morbidity, assessing a probabilistic sample of household residents in the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Area, aged 18 years and over.

TL;DR: The findings were consistent with the income inequality theory, that is, people living in places with higher income inequality had an overall higher odd of mental disorders, albeit not always statistically significant.

TL;DR: The prevalence of HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and C, and HTLV-I/II infection among low-income postpartum and pregnant women treated in Greater Metropolitan Vitória, Espírito Santo State, Brazil, and the risk factors associated with these infections are determined.