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Marisa Freitas

Researcher at University of Porto

Publications -  127
Citations -  8474

Marisa Freitas is an academic researcher from University of Porto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chemistry & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 102 publications receiving 4236 citations. Previous affiliations of Marisa Freitas include Polytechnic Institute of Porto.

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Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Boris Bikbov, +221 more
- 29 Feb 2020 - 
TL;DR: The burden of CKD was much higher than expected for the level of development, whereas the disease burden in western, eastern, and central sub-Saharan Africa, east Asia, south Asia, central and eastern Europe, Australasia, and western Europe was lower than expected.
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Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017

Christina Fitzmaurice, +627 more
- 27 Sep 2019 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study as discussed by the authors has been used to describe cancer burden for 29 cancer groups in 195 countries from 1990 through 2017 to provide data needed for cancer control planning, including cancer incidence, mortality, years lived with disability, years of life lost, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).
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Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Haidong Wang, +727 more
- 17 Oct 2020 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 produced updated and comprehensive demographic assessments of the key indicators of fertility, mortality, migration, and population for 204 countries and territories and selected subnational locations from 1950 to 2019.
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Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Christopher J L Murray, +866 more
- 17 Oct 2020 - 
TL;DR: Five key insights that are important for health, social, and economic development strategies have been distilled are distilled and are subject to the many limitations outlined in each of the component GBD capstone papers.
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α-Glucosidase inhibition by flavonoids: an in vitro and in silico structure-activity relationship study.

TL;DR: The present work suggests that several of the studied flavonoids have the potential to be used as alternatives for the regulation of PPHG, with a flavonoid with two catechol groups in A- and B-rings being the most active.