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Objectif: Étudier l’association entre la consommation de café, la consommation de thé noir et le risque de cancer du poumon. Méthodologie: Cette recherche utilise les données obtenues lors d’une étude cas-témoin effectuée à Montréal avec des résidents canadiens âgés entre 35 et 75 ans recrutés entre 1996 et 2001. Les cas étaient des individus atteints du cancer et diagnostiqués entre 1996 et 1997 dans l’un des 18 hôpitaux de la région du Grand-Montréal. Les contrôles on été sélectionnés à partir de la liste électorale et appariés selon la fréquence de distribution des cas par groupe d’âge de 5 ans, par sexe et par district électoral. Au total, 1130 cas et 1484 contrôles ont été inclus dans cette étude. Les rapports de cote (RC) et les intervalles de confiance de 95% (CI) des associations entre la consommation de thé noir, de café et le cancer du poumon ont été estimés à l’aide de la régression logistique non conditionnelle. Quatre aspects de la consommation ont été analysés dans des modèles multivariés distincts: la fréquence de consommation, la consommation journalière moyenne, la durée de consommation et la consommation cumulative. Les covariables potentielles considérées incluaient : l’âge, le sexe, l’historique de tabagisme, le statut du répondant, l’ethnicité, la consommation d’alcool, la consommation de fruit et de légume, l’apport énergétique journalier, l’exposition a des agents professionnelle et les variables socio-économiques . Des analyses secondaires par le sexe, le tabagisme et le type histologique de cancer on été effectuées. Résultats : Aucune association statistiquement significative n’a été observée entre la consommation de thé noir et le cancer du poumon. Nos résultats suggèrent qu’une consommation de ≥ 50 ans était associée avec une augmentation du risque d’adénocarcinome comparée à aucune consommation. Nous avons observé une association inverse statistiquement significative entre la consommation occasionnelle de café et le cancer du poumon (RC : 0.32, 95%CI : 0.17-0.59). La durée de consommation de café n’était pas associée avec le cancer du poumon. Conclusion : Nos résultats suggèrent que la consommation à long terme de thé noir pourrait augmenter le risque d’adénocarcinome. D’un autre côté, la consommation occasionnelle de café pourrait réduire le risque de cancer du poumon. / Objective: To investigate the associations between the consumption of black tea and coffee and lung cancer. Methods: This research was conducted using data from a Montreal lung cancer case-control study that included Canadian residents aged 35 to 75 years old recruited between 1996 and 2001. Cases were individuals diagnosed with lung cancer between 1996 and 1997 from one of 18 Montreal-area hospitals. Controls were randomly selected from the electoral list and frequency matched to the distribution of the cases by 5 year age groups, sex and electoral district. In total, 1130 cases and 1484 controls were included in this analysis. The odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the association between black tea and coffee consumption and lung cancer were estimated using unconditional logistic regression. Four aspects of the consumption were analyzed in separate multivariate models: the frequency of consumption, average daily amount of consumption, duration of consumption and cumulative consumption. Potential covariates included: age, sex, smoking, respondent status, ethnicity, alcohol intake, fruit and vegetable intake, energy intake, exposure to occupational agents and socioeconomic variables. Analyses by sex, smoking level and tumor histological type were also conducted. Results: No statistically significant association was observed between the consumption of black tea and lung cancer. There were indications that consuming black tea for 50 years or more was associated with an increase in the risk of adenocarcinoma relative to no consumption. A significant inverse association between the consumption of coffee and lung cancer was observed for occasional coffee drinkers when compared to never drinkers with an estimated OR (95%CI) of 0.32 (0.17 - 0.59). The duration of coffee consumption was not statistically significantly associated with lung cancer. Conclusion: Our results suggest that long-term consumption of black tea may increase the risk of adenocarcinoma. On the other hand, the occasional consumption of coffee may reduce the risk of lung cancer.

La maladie de Crohn (MC) pédiatrique a des conséquences majeures sur la qualité de vie des patients atteints (troubles de croissance, absentéisme scolaire, etc). L’étiologie de la MC est inconnue. La théorie de l’hygiène (TH) stipule que les conditions de vie sanitaires des pays industrialisés préviennent l’exposition antigénique et empêchent le développement de la tolérance immunitaire chez les enfants. Ceci mènerait à une réaction excessive du système immunitaire lors d’expositions subséquentes et engendrerait le développement de maladies inflammatoires chroniques telles la MC. Objectif: Analyser l’association entre la fréquence, la temporalité et le type d’infections infantiles (indicateurs d’environnements pourvus d’antigènes) et le risque de MC pédiatrique. Une étude cas-témoin fût réalisée, les cas de MC provenant d’un centre hospitalier tertiaire montréalais. Les témoins, provenant des registres de la Régie d’assurance maladie du Québec (RAMQ), furent appariés aux cas selon leur âge, sexe et lieu de résidence. L’exposition aux infections fût déterminée grâce aux codes de diagnostic ICD-9 inscrits dans la base de données de la RAMQ. Un modèle de régression logistique conditionnelle fût construit afin d’analyser l’association entre infections et MC. Des ratios de cotes (RC) et intervalles de confiance à 95% (IC 95%) furent calculés. Résultats: 409 cas et 1621 témoins furent recrutés. Les résultats de l’analyse suggèrent un effet protecteur des infections infantiles sur le risque de MC (RC: 0,67 [IC: 0,48-0,93], p=0,018), plus particulièrement au cours des 5 premières années de vie (RC: 0.74 [IC: 0,57-0,96], p=0,025). Les infections rénales et urinaires, ainsi que les infections des voies orales et du système nerveux central (virale), semblent particulièrement associées à l’effet protecteur. Les résultats de l’étude appuient la théorie de l’hygiène: l’exposition aux infections infantiles pourrait réduire le risque de MC pédiatrique. / Crohn’s disease (CD) poses specific challenges in the paediatric population (growth failure, depression, etc). The environmental contributors to CD aetiology remain largely unknown. There are suggestions that sanitary living conditions prevailing in developed countries prevent antigen exposure and impede the development of immunological tolerance amongst children, resulting in abnormally heightened immunological responses with subsequent exposures (hygiene hypothesis). Evidence for the hygiene hypothesis in CD aetiology remains unclear. Objectives: To assess the role of the frequency, timing and type of childhood infections (measures of antigen exposure) on the risk of paediatric CD. A case-control study was carried out. Confirmed cases of CD were recruited from a tertiary care paediatric hospital. Controls matched to the cases on calendar age, gender, and area of residence, were selected using the provincial health insurance files. Infection exposure was ascertained using ICD-9 diagnostic codes provided by the provincial insurer’s administrative databases. Conditional logistic regression analysis was used to assess the relationship between childhood infections and CD. Odds ratios (OR) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were estimated. 409 cases and 1621 controls were recruited. A diagnosis of infection was associated with reduced risks for paediatric CD (OR=0.67, 95% CI:[0.48-0.93], p=0.018), attributable to infection exposures primarily during the first 5 years since birth [OR=0.74, 95% CI=0.57-0.96, p=0.025]. Infections affecting the kidney and urinary tract, oral tract and viral CNS infections, were most significantly associated with protective effects. Our study provides support for the hygiene hypothesis in CD whereby exposure to infections in early childhood could potentially reduce risks for CD.

Objectifs: Évaluer l’association entre l’exposition récréative, professionnelle et globale au soleil et le risque de cancer de la prostate (CaP). Méthodes: Dans le contexte d’une étude cas-témoins sur le CaP menée à Montréal, Canada, des entrevues ont été complétées auprès de 1371 cas incidents de CaP diagnostiqués en 2005-2009, et 1479 témoins de la population générale. Des questionnaires détaillés ont permis d’obtenir de l’information sur la fréquence et la durée de participation à toute activité extérieure lors des loisirs durant l’âge adulte, ainsi qu’une description de chaque emploi tenu au cours de la vie. Une matrice emploi-exposition canadienne a été appliquée à chaque emploi afin d’assigner un niveau d’exposition professionnelle au soleil. Des indices cumulatifs de l’exposition au soleil basés sur le nombre d’événements récréatifs, la durée d’exposition professionnelle, ainsi qu’un indice d’exposition global ont été développés. La régression logistique a été utilisée pour estimer l’association entre chaque indice d’exposition et le CaP, en ajustant pour des variables de confusion potentielles. Résultats: Globalement, il n’y avait pas d’association entre chacun des indices d’exposition et le risque de CaP. Certaines tendances en accord avec un risque légèrement plus faible chez les hommes exposés au soleil ont été observées mais les résultats n’étaient pas statistiquement significatifs et il n’y avait pas de relation dose-réponse. Conclusion: Notre étude apporte peu de soutien à l’hypothèse d’une association entre l’exposition au soleil et le risque de développer un cancer de la prostate. / Objectives: To investigate the association between sunlight exposure during leisure time, at work and globally, and prostate cancer (PCa) risk. Methods: In the context of a case-control study conducted in Montreal, Canada, interviews were conducted with 1371 incident PCa cases diagnosed between 2005 and 2009, and 1479 population controls. Detailed questionnaires were used to elicit the frequency and duration of engagement in any outdoor recreational activity during adulthood, as well as a description of each job held over the lifetime. A Canadian job-exposure matrix was applied to attribute a sunlight exposure level to each job. Cumulative indices of sunlight exposure were developed based on the number of outdoor leisure-time events, the duration of occupational exposure, separately and combined. Logistic regression was used to estimate the association between each sunlight exposure index and PCa, adjusting for potential confounding factors. Results: As a whole, there was no association between any of the exposure indices, and PCa risk, or PCa aggressiveness. Some trends for slightly lower PCa risks among men exposed to sunlight were observed, but results were not statistically significant and there was no dose-response pattern. Conclusion: Our findings provide little evidence for an association between sunlight exposure during adulthood and prostate cancer development.

Objectif: Examiner l’association entre l'exposition aux évènements stressants de la vie et le cancer du poumon. Méthodes: Les données proviennent d’une étude cas-témoins, menée chez les hommes et les femmes vivant dans la région métropolitaine de Montréal entre 1996 et 2001. Le cancer du poumon d’un cas éligible devait être confirmé histologiquement à l’un des 18 hôpitaux de cette région. Les témoins ont été sélectionnés aléatoirement de la liste électorale du Québec et ont été appariés au cas par fréquence de groupes d'âge et par sexe. Un questionnaire a été administré en entrevue pour recueillir les données, dont l’évaluation de huit évènements stressants de la vie par le participant. Si le participant avait vécu un évènement stressant ciblé durant les six dernières années, il devait aussi coter cet évènement sur une échelle de trois points. La régression logistique non conditionnelle a été utilisée pour estimer les rapports de cotes ainsi que leurs intervalles de confiance à 95%. Des analyses par sexe, niveau de tabagisme et par type histologique ont été réalisées. Nous avons aussi analysé l’association entre le cancer du poumon et le nombre total d'évènements, les évènements de perte et les évènements socioéconomiques, ainsi que chaque évènement individuellement. Les analyses des scores d'impact autoévalués et avec un score externe de perception, ont également été menées. Résultats: La population de ce projet comprend 1061 cas et 1422 témoins, âgés de 35 à 70 ans. Les participants inclus avaient répondu aux sections du questionnaire portant sur les facteurs de style de vie et sur l'historique de tabagisme. Dans l'ensemble, nous n’avons pas observé d’association entre le cancer du poumon et l'exposition aux évènements stressants de la vie. Nous avons observé une diminution du risque pour les évènements socioéconomiques autoévalués comme peu stressants (RC=0,50; IC 95%= 0,31 - 0,81). Conclusion: Nos résultats suggèrent que les évènements socioéconomiques sont associées à un risque réduit si ces évènements sont considérés comme peu stressant. / Objective: To examine exposure to stressful life events in relation to lung cancer risk. Methods: Our research used data from a case-control study conducted in Montreal from 1996 to 2001. Cases were diagnosed with histologically confirmed incident lung cancer at one of 18 Montreal-area hospitals. Controls were randomly selected from the Quebec electoral list and frequency matched to the distribution of cases by sex and 5 year age groups. Data was collected on sociodemographic characteristics, lifetime smoking, and lifestyle factors including 8 stressful life events. Participants indicated the stressful life events they experienced over the past six years, and an appraisal of their level of stress due to each event on a three-point scale. Unconditional logistic regression was used to estimate adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals. Each stressful life event was analyzed individually as well as in grouped variables measuring total number of events, loss events and socioeconomic events. Analyses of self-appraised impact scores were also conducted; additionally an external perceived stress score was also employed. Results: 1061 cases and 1422 population controls were included in the analyses. Overall, we observed no association between lung cancer and stressful life events. A decrease in risk for socioeconomic events self-appraised as not very stressful was observed (OR, 0.50; 95% CI, 0.31, 0.81), which included job loss, increase in debt, and move to another city. Conclusion: Our results suggest that socioeconomic events, deemed not very stressful, may reduce the risk of lung cancer.

Introdução: A leucemia linfoblástica aguda (LLA) é a neoplasia pediátrica com maior incidência no mundo. Sua etiologia é resultante de múltiplas interações entre herança genética e exposição a agentes ambientais potencialmente carcinogênicos nos períodos pré-natal, nascimento e pós-natal. O parto cesáreo tem sido apontado como fator de risco para LLA em crianças. No Brasil, país com altas taxas de cesariana, são poucos os estudos que avaliaram a associação de cesariana com LLA na infância. Objetivos: Investigar a associação de cesariana e condições pré-natal e pós-natal com LLA em crianças nascidas no estado de São Paulo. Métodos: Estudo caso-controle de base populacional. Os casos de LLA, crianças nascidas no estado de São Paulo a partir de 1999, foram recrutados em oito hospitais de 2003 a 2009. Os controles foram emparelhados com os casos por sexo, idade e cidade de nascimento. As informações utilizadas nesse estudo foram obtidas em entrevistas com as mães ou responsáveis pelas crianças por meio de questionário estruturado. Informações adicionais foram adquiridas no banco de Declarações de Nascidos Vivos (DNV), que integra o Sistema de Informações de Nascidos Vivos (SINASC) da Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de São Paulo e do Ministério da Saúde. Após o linkage probabilístico dos bancos de dados, a amostra final comporta 133 casos e 459 controles, relação de 3,4 controles por caso. Análises de regressão logística não condicional e condicional foram conduzidas para estimar a associação entre cesariana, condições pré-natal e pós-natal e LLA, com estimava dos odds ratios (OR) e respectivos intervalos de 95% de confiança (IC 95%). Três modelos de regressão logística foram elaborados: 1) ajuste por idade e sexo da criança, idade e escolaridade da mãe; 2) ajuste pelas variáveis anteriores, mais raça e número de consultas; 3) ajuste por todas as variáveis anteriores e a inclusão de idade gestacional e peso ao nascer. Resultados: A análise de regressão logística não condicional, com base no Modelo 2, revelou discreto risco de LLA na exposição à cesariana (OR=1,10; IC95% 0,71-1,70), proteção na condição de mãe com 12 ou mais anos de escolaridade (OR=0,46; IC95% 0,24-0,89) e idade da criança de 6 a 8 anos no diagnóstico (OR=0,30; IC95% 0,13-0,67). Resultados similares foram observados na análise de regressão logística condicional no Modelo 2: cesariana (OR=1,18; IC95% 0,69-2,00), mães com 12 ou mais anos de escolaridade (OR=0,56; IC95% 0,25-1,24). Conclusões: Há uma tênue associação entre cesariana e LLA na infância, sem significância estatística. Alta escolaridade da mãe e crianças na faixa etária entre 6 e 8 anos foram fatores de proteção para LLA. Crianças com síndrome de Down apresentaram seis vezes o risco de LLA. Os resultados obtidos por análise regressão logística condicional foram similares aos da regressão logística não condicional. / Introduction: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common pediatric neoplasia worldwide. Its etiology results from multiple interactions between genetic inheritance and exposure to potentially carcinogenic environmental agents during the prenatal, birth, and postnatal periods. Cesarean section has been identified as a risk factor for ALL in children. In Brazil, a country with high Cesarean section rates, few studies have evaluated the association of Cesarean section with ALL in childhood. Objectives: To investigate the association of Cesarean section, prenatal and postnatal conditions with ALL in children born in the state of São Paulo. Methods: Population-based case-control study. The cases of ALL, children born in the state of São Paulo from 1999, were recruited in eight hospitals from 2003 to 2009. Controls were matched with cases by sex, age and city of birth. The information used in this study were obtained through interviews with mothers or guardians of the children, using a structured questionnaire. Additional information were get from the Live Births Database, stored in the Live Birth Information System at the São Paulo Municipal Health Department and at the Brazilian Ministry of Health. After the databases probabilistic linkage, the final sample entails 133 cases and 459 controls, 3.4 controls per case ratio. Non-conditional and conditional logistic regression analyzes were conducted to estimate the association between cesarean section, pre- and postnatal conditions, and ALL with estimation of odds ratios (OR) and respective 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). Three models of logistic regression were elaborated: 1) adjustment by age and sex of the child, age and schooling of the mother; 2) adjustment for the previous variables, more race and number of queries; 3) adjustment for all previous variables and the inclusion of gestational age and birth weight. Results: The nonconditional logistic regression analysis, based on Model 2, revealed a slight risk of ALL on cesarean section exposure (OR = 1.10, 95% CI 0.71-1.70), protection on the condition of mothers with 12 or more years of schooling (OR = 0.46, 95% CI 0.24-0.89), and age of child from 6 to 8 years at diagnosis (OR = 0.30, 95% CI, 0.13-0, 67). In the conditional logistic regression analysis in Model 2, similar results were observed: cesarean (OR = 1.18, 95% CI 0.69-2.00), mothers with 12 or more years of schooling (OR = 0.56, 95% CI, 0.25-1.24). Conclusions: There is a weak association between cesarean section and ALL in childhood, with no statistical significance. Mother with high education level and children in the age range between 6 and 8 years were protective factors for ALL. Children with Down syndrome had a six-fold risk of ALL. The results obtained by conditional logistic regression analysis were similar to those of non-conditional logistic regression.

El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado / Background: There are no internationally validated questionnaires to investigate the prevalence of infant wheezing. This study was undertaken to validate a questionnaire for the International Study on the Prevalence of Wheezing in Infants (Estudio Internacional de Sibilancias en Lactantes, EISL). Material and Methods: Construct and criterion validity were tested for the question 'Has your baby had wheezing or whistling in the chest during his/her first 12 months of life?'. Construct validity (i.e. the ability of parents and doctors to refer to the same symptoms with the same words) was tested in a sample of 50 wheezing and 50 non-wheezy infants 12-15 months of age in each of 10 centres from 6 different Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking countries. Criterion validity (i.e. the ability of parents to correctly detect the symptom in the general population) was evaluated in 2 samples (Santiago, Chile and Cartagena, Spain) of 50 wheezing and 50 non-wheezing infants (according to parents) of the same age, randomly selected from the general population, who were later blindly diagnosed by a paediatric pulmonologist. Results: Construct validity was very high (κ test: 0.98-1) in all centres. According to Youden's index, criterion validity was good both in Cartagena (75.5%) and in Santiago (67.0%). Adding questions about asthma medication did not improve diagnosis accuracy. Conclusions: The EISL questionnaire significantly distinguished wheezy infants from healthy ones. This questionnaire has a strong validity and can be employed in large international multicentre studies on wheezing during infancy. / Revisión por pares

Os estudos epidemiológicos relativos ao denominado câncer ocupacional têm como objetivo o estudo do câncer em populações trabalhadoras e a identificação de fatores causais. O número de agentes que comprovadamente causam câncer em seres humanos é ainda pequeno, cerca de trinta. A estes fatores podem ser agregados algumas atividades ocupacionais e processos industriais onde agentes potencialmente cancerígenos existem mas não foram ainda identificados. A quase totalidade dos estudos epidemiológicos buscando relacionar ocupação e câncer foram realizados nos países desenvolvidos, com processos de industrialização mais antigos e consolidados. Nesta investigação o objetivo é estudar a relação trabalho e câncer no contexto de um país subdesenvolvido e recentemente industrializado. O estudo explora os riscos ocupacionais determinantes da neoplasia pulmonar na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo (RMSP). O trabalho está dividido em duas partes. Na primeira são discutidos aspectos relativos ao câncer com particular destaque ao carcinoma broncogênico e à aplicação da metodologia epidemiológica na área da saúde do trabalhador, em especial para o estudo do câncer relacionado à ocupação. A segunda parte contempla a descrição do estudo de caso-controle construído para atingir os objetivos definidos. Os dados do estudo foram levantados no período de 1º de julho de 1990 a 31 de janeiro de 1991 em quatorze hospitais que concentram o atendimento a pacientes com câncer de pulmão na RMSP. Um total de 316 casos e 536 controles, emparelhados com os casos por sexo e idade, foram selecionados para análise. Tabagismo, tabagismo passivo, história migratória, outros cânceres na família e estrato sócio-econômico, além de sexo e idade, foram as outras variáveis estudadas. A análise univariada permitiu identificar as variáveis que estavam interferindo na relação principal estudada. Posteriormente, utilizou-se as técnicas de análise estratificada e de regressão logística para controlar as variáveis tabagismo, referência à carcinoma de pulmão na família, sexo e idade. Os resultados revelam que os trabalhadores que estiveram ligados por tempo prolongado aos setores de produção, de ramos de atividades industriais nos quais há maior probabilidade de exposição à substâncias cancerígenas, têm cerca de duas vezes o risco de desenvolverem carcinoma broncogênico em relação aos trabalhadores com menor probabilidade de exposição a substâncias cancerígenas como os que referiram nunca terem trabalhado fora de casa. / Epidemiological studies on occupational cancer have as their objective the study of cancer in working populations and the distribution of causal factors. The number of agents proved to cause cancer in humans is still rather small, about thirty. It could be added some occupational activities and industrial processes where hazardous agents are known to exist, but have not been identified. Almost all epidemiological studies to evaluate the relationship between occupation and cancer were carried out in developed countries, where industrialization process is older and more structured. In this investigation the objective is to study the association between occupation and cancer in a developing and newly industrialized country context. In this sense, the study explores occupational risks for lung cancer in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (MRSP). This work is split in two parts. Firstly it was introduced a review of some aspects on cancer, particularly lung cancer, and the use of epidemiologic methodology related to worker\'s health, particularly cancer. In the second part it was described the hospital-based case-control study carried out to reach defined objectives. This research was conducted between 1st July 1990 and 31st January 1991 in fourteen hospitais which concentrate lung cancer cases in the MRSP. It has been selected a total of 316 cases and 536 controls, matched by hospital, sex and age with cases. Smoking, passive smoking, migratory history, cancer in the family and socio-economic status, besides sex and age, were other variables studied. Univariate analysis identified variables that could interfere in the main studied associatian. Through stratification and logistic regression approaches the variables gender and age, smoking and reference to lung neoplasy in family, were controlled. The results showed that workers linked to the production sectors of industries where there are higher risk of exposure to carcinogenic products have about two fold the risk of developing lung cancer rather than those workers with the lowest risk of exposure to carcinogens.

Avaliar por ressonância magnética (IRM), placa e remodelamento coronários, comparar estenose por IRM e cinecoronariografia (CINE) e correlacionar achados de US de carótidas em pacientes (pts) com DAC. Avaliamos 10 controles(ctls) e 26 pts (lesão > 50% à CINE). Realizamos cortes transversais em artérias DA e CD (2Dblack-blood). Calculamos espessamento parietal (EP), área luminal (AL), área da parede (AP) e área total do vaso (ATV). Detectamos significantes aumentos em EP, AP e ATV nos pts vs. ctls, sem diferenças quanto a AL. Ajustando AL pela ATV, houve redução desta relação nos pts vs. ctls (remodelamento positivo). Em conclusão, a IRM identifica a parede e remodelamento de coronárias em pts com DAC, não houve correlação entre IRM e CINE quanto à estenose e placa em carótidas foi mais prevalente nos pts / To test magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in detecting atherosclerotic plaque and coronary remodeling in patients (pts) with CAD, to compare stenosis grade (MRI vs. angiography), and to correlate carotid plaque by US and CAD. Cross-sectional slices (2D black-blood) was performed in LAD and RCA in 10 controls (ctls) and 26 pts ( > 50% stenosis) by MRI. Maximum wall thickness (WT), vessel wall area (VWA), luminal area (LA) and total vessel area (TVA) were analyzed. MRI detected increases in WT, VWA and TVA in pts vs. ctls, but not for LA. Adjusting LA for TVA, reduction was found in pts (positive remodeling). In conclusion, MRI allowed vessel abnormalities and coronary remodeling in pts with CAD, there was no correlation between stenosis grade (MRI vs. angiography) and carotid plaque was more prevalent in pts

Este estudo tem como objetivo, descrever a microbiota intestinal de pacientes com retocolite ulcerativa grave, em tratamento clínico, antes e após retocolectomia com anastomose de bolsa ileal ao canal anal. Comparou-se a flora bacteriana do íleo terminal e do reto no pré-operatório com a flora encontrada na bolsa ileal após dois e oito meses do fechamento da ileostomia e com a flora do íleo terminal e do reto de um grupo controle. Observou-se que a Veillonella sp foi a bactéria mais freqüentemente encontrada em todos os grupos. Não houve diferenças significativas entre a flora intestinal do grupo controle e dos pacientes com retocolite ulcerativa / The aim of this study is to describe the intestinal microbiota of patients with severe ulcerative colitis, under clinical treatment, before and after proctocolectomy and ileal pouch-anal anastomosis. Intestinal flora of distal ileum and rectum before surgery was compared with the flora found in ileal pouch after two and eight months after ileostomy closure and with the flora of distal ileum and rectum of controls. Veillonella sp was the most frequent microorganism found in all groups. There were no significant differences between the intestinal microbiota found in controls and in patients with ulcerative colitis