The aim of this study has been to analyse the perception Olympic values shown by coaches different levels and categories in Portugal related type sport they train (individual or collective). sample consisted 1473 Portuguese (214 female 1259 male) from 34 sports modalities data collection instrument was a three-dimensional questionnaire (perception Symbols, opinion about participation Games Game...

Background Infant respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS) is one of the main causes of serious complications and death in preterm infants. Both Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (NCPAP) and Nasal Intermittent Positive Pressure Ventilation (NIPPV) are known as the most common treatment strategies for IRDS. The present study intended to compare NCPAP and NIPPV in the treatment of preterm inf...

BACKGROUND Evidence from molecular and animal research and epidemiologic investigations indicates that calcium intake may be inversely related to body weight, possibly through alterations in 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) [1,25(OH)(2)D(3)] metabolism. OBJECTIVE We tested whether energy and substrate metabolism and adipose tissue enzyme messenger RNA (mRNA) expression can be altered by dietary cal...

Among a total of 1259 patients with oesophageal cancer who underwent surgical resection, intramural metastasis (IMM) was verified in 93 patients (7.4%), of which IMM to the stomach (IMMS) constituted 13 patients (1.0%). In all 13 cases, the primary cancer was located in the middle or lower thoracic oesophagus and all had lymph nodes metastasis, while 12 of the 13 (92.3%) had lymphatic invasion....

PurposeTo evaluate the role of ultrasonography (US) in differentiating anastomotic biliary strictures (AS) and non-anastomotic (NAS) after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT).MethodThis retrospective study included 1259 OLT recipients between 2005−2018. Seventy-six with 103 were analyzed. The reference standard was cholangiography. sensitivity, specificity, accuracy US evaluated.ResultsThere...