Introduction: The six-minute walking test distance, despite being considered the main parameter, does not consider body weight which is known to influence exercise capacity. A body of evidence * Professor do Centro Universitário Feevale de Novo Hamburgo/ Médico pneumologista do Pavilhão Pereira Filho/ Professor do Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Pneumológicas da Universidade Federal do Ri...

Considerando a relevância das relações Sul-Sul no estudo global Relações Internacionais, esse artigo analisa dimensão simbólica da cooperação promovida pela política externa do governo Lula. Partindo dos estudos que aplicam teoria dádiva para analisar o regime simbólico dominante campo internacional desenvolvimento, hipótese defendida é de Lula mobilizou, maneira inédita, um quadro bastante est...

Our study group for infectious diseases would like to congratulate the authors of the article entitled “Pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009: risk factors for hospitalization”(1) for their findings. A retrospective study was carried out at our facility between July and August of 2009, a period in which the incidence of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection was highest in the Serra Gaúcha...

UNLABELLED Standardized uptake value (SUV) normalized by lean body mass ([LBM] SUL) is becoming a popular metric for quantitative assessment of clinical PET. Sex-specific quantitative effects of different LBM formulations on liver SUV have not been well studied. METHODS (18)F-FDG PET/CT scans from 1,033 consecutive adult (501 women, 532 men) studies were reviewed. Liver SUV was measured with ...

The Rio Grande do Sul Telematics and Telehealth kernel in Brazil, aims to enhance the quality of the Unified Health System (UHS) in support of primary health care (PHC) services, most of them engaged in the Family Health Program (FHP). Among the initiatives of the TeleHealth Rio Grande do Sul, there is consulting via e-mail and videoconference. They are requested and answered using specific for...

The prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in 84 free-range chickens (34 from the northern Pará state, and 50 from Rio Grande do Sul, the southern state) from Brazil, South America was determined. Antibodies to T. gondii were assayed by the modified agglutination test (MAT), and found in 39 (46.4%) of 84 chickens with titers of 1:10 in one, 1:20 in two, 1:40 in four, 1:80 in seven, 1:160 in five, 1:32...

Caracterizar o perfil epidemiológico, clínico e genético de pacientes com Covid-19. Realizou-se um estudo observacional transversal voluntários que tiveram diagnóstico Covid-19 no período abril 2020 a maio 2021 município Santa Cruz do Sul (RS, Brasil), qual foram coletados dados clínicos epidemiológicos, além amostras sangue para identificação polimorfismos gene ACE2. Foram recrutados 87 indiví...

O texto analisa aspectos da internacionalização educação superior na perspectiva Sul-Sul, a partir cooperação acadêmica entre duas instituições de ensino situadas em região fronteira Brasil e Uruguai. São priorizadas discussões acerca pelo viés Sul-Sul depender das políticas públicas locais internacionais, assim como ótica cultura organizativa para internacionalização. Há compreensão que tal po...

This study explores antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) as emerging environmental contaminants. The purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence of ARGs in various environmental compartments in northern Colorado, including Cache La Poudre (Poudre) River sediments, irrigation ditches, dairy lagoons, and the effluents of wastewater recycling and drinking water treatment plants. Addition...