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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Estado nutricional em pacientes HIV positivos anêmicos atendidos no Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre

Castro, Luísa Rihl January 2003 (has links)
Realizou-se um estudo descritivo conduzido no Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, no período de outubro de 2001 a outubro de 2002, com pacientes HIV positivos e anêmicos. Objetivo: avaliar a associação entre anemia e o perfil nutricional em uma amostra de pacientes HIV+ . Métodos: Foram incluídos 34 pacientes maiores de 18 anos, sendo todos pacientes diagnosticados com anemia. Foram analisados exames laboratoriais, avaliação da ingestão alimentar (recordatório alimentar de 24h), freqüência alimentar e coleta dos parâmetros antropométricos dos pacientes. Resultados: O recordatório alimentar de 24 horas demonstrou a deficiência na ingestão de folato pela maioria dos pacientes; enquanto que vitamina B12 e ferro estiveram de acordo com as RDA’s. Conclusão: A causa da anemia nestes pacientes talvez não tenha sido em função desta deficiente ingestão de folato, ainda mais por se tratar de um estudo descritivo. Ressalta-se a importância do profissional para o acompanhamento nutricional destes pacientes, para a promoção de um adequado estado nutricional e qualidade de vida. / Was develop a descritive study conducted in the Porto Alegre Clinics’ Hospital, from october 2001 to October 2002, with positive HIV and anemics patients. Objectives: Evaluate the association between anemia and nutritional status in positive HIV patients. Methodology: Were included 34 patients under 18 years old, all diagnosed with anemia. Laboratorial exams, evaluation of food intake (24h register), questionary of food intake frequence and anthropometrics data were collected. Results: The 24h register food intake showed the deficiency in folate intake by most of patients ,while vitamine B12 and iron intake were accorded RDA’s. Conclusions: The etiology of anemia in these patients maybe wasn´t cause by this folate deficiency, also because this was a describe study. The presence of a professional appears to be important for the nutritional treatment of these patients, to develop a health nutrional status and quality of life.
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Estado nutricional de ferro de lactentes atendidos em unidades básicas de saúde / Iron nutritional status of infants attending in basic health units

Carvalho, Beatriz Assis 09 February 2015 (has links)
Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2015-05-08T12:20:16Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Beatriz Assis Carvalho - 2015.pdf: 4617719 bytes, checksum: b0187daca51d7151c1658696f370401e (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2015-05-08T13:00:51Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Beatriz Assis Carvalho - 2015.pdf: 4617719 bytes, checksum: b0187daca51d7151c1658696f370401e (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-08T13:00:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Beatriz Assis Carvalho - 2015.pdf: 4617719 bytes, checksum: b0187daca51d7151c1658696f370401e (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-09 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / To evaluate the nutritional status of iron and its related factors in children 12 to 15 months assisted in Health Units in Goiânia, Goiás. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study nested in research "Effectiveness of home fortification with vitamins and minerals in the prevention of iron deficiency and anemia in children under one year of age: a multicenter study in Brazilian cities ". The study was conducted with 230 children, aged between 12 and 15 months, assisted in Health Units in Goiânia, from June 2012 to February 2013. The prevalence of iron deficiency, iron deficiency anemia and anemia were assessed by the plasma means concentration of ferritin and transferrin receptor, hemoglobin and C-reactive protein. Multiple linear regression was used to estimate the effect of independent variables on the log plasma concentrations of ferritin. These variables were socioeconomic, demographic, maternal, pregnancy, anthropometric, breastfeeding, use of supplement, and biochemical parameters. RESULTS: Regarding the iron status, iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia prevalence was 14.1% and 1.5%, respectively. Also, anemia prevalence was 5.6% of the infants studied. The predictors of ferritin were folate, vitamin B12 and the use of iron supplement at the time of collection, which each unit raised the log plasma concentration of ferritin in 0.009 mg/L, 0.001 mg/L and 0.315 mg/L, respectively. CONCLUSION: The results of this study showed low prevalence of iron deficiency and anemia in children studied. The use of iron supplements and serum concentrations of vitamin B12 and folate correlated ferritin concentrations and consequently the iron status in this population. Keywords: Iron Deficiency; Ferritins; Receptors, transferrin; Folic Acid; Vitamin B 12; Infant. / Avaliar o estado nutricional de ferro e os seus fatores relacionados em crianças de 12 a 15 meses atendidas em Unidades Básicas de Saúde de Goiânia, Goiás. MÉTODOS: Trata-se de um estudo transversal aninhado a pesquisa “Efetividade da fortificação caseira com vitaminas e minerais na prevenção da deficiência de ferro e anemia em crianças menores de um ano: estudo multicêntrico em cidades brasileiras”. O trabalho foi realizado com 230 crianças, de 12 e 15 meses, atendidas em Unidades Básicas de Saúde de Goiânia, no período de junho de 2012 a fevereiro de 2013. As prevalências de deficiência de ferro, anemia por deficiência de ferro e anemia foram avaliadas por meio da concentração plasmática de ferritina e receptor de transferrina, hemoglobina e proteína C-reativa. Foi utilizada regressão linear múltipla para estimar o efeito de variáveis independentes sobre o log das concentrações plasmáticas de ferritina. Estas variáveis foram condições socioeconômicas, demográficas, maternas, gestacionais, antropomêtricas, amamentação, uso de suplemento, e parâmetros bioquímicos. RESULTADOS: Com relação ao estado nutricional de ferro, as prevalências de deficiência de ferro e anemia por deficiência de ferro foram de 14,1% e 1,5% respectivamente. Além disso, foi encontrada prevalência de 5,6% de anemia nos lactentes estudados. Os fatores associados a ferritina foram o folato, a vitamina B12 e o uso de suplemento de ferro no momento da coleta, os quais cada unidade elevaram o log da concentração plasmática de ferritina em 0,009 μg/L, 0,001 μg/L e 0,315 μg/L, respectivamente. CONCLUSÃO: Os dados do presente estudo evidenciaram baixas prevalências de deficiência de ferro e anemia nas crianças estudadas. O uso de suplemento de ferro e as concentrações séricas das vitaminas B12 e folato correlacionaram-se as concentrações de ferritina e consequentemente, o estado nutricional de ferro nesta população.
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Diet-responsive Gene Networks Rewire Metabolism in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to Provide Robustness against Vitamin B12 Deficiency: A Dissertation

Watson, Emma 17 September 2015 (has links)
Maintaining cellular homeostasis is a complex task, which involves monitoring energy states and essential nutrients, regulating metabolic fluxes to accommodate energy and biomass needs, and preventing buildup of potentially toxic metabolic intermediates and byproducts. Measures aimed at maintaining a healthy cellular economy inherently depend on the composition of nutrients available to the organism through its diet. We sought to delineate links between dietary composition, metabolic gene regulation, and physiological responses in the model organism C. elegans. As a soil-dwelling bacterivore, C. elegans encounters diverse bacterial diets. Compared to a diet of E. coli OP50, a diet of Comamonas aquatica accelerates C. elegans developmental rate, alters egg-laying dynamics and shortens lifespan. These physiological responses are accompanied by gene expression changes. Taking advantage of this natural, genetically tractable predator-prey system, we performed genetic screens i) in C. elegans to identify regulators of diet-responsive genes, and ii) in E. coli and Comamonas to determine dietary factors driving transcriptional responses in C. elegans. We identified a C. elegans transcriptional program that regulates metabolic genes in response to vitamin B12 content in the bacterial diet. Interestingly, several B12- repressed metabolic genes of unknown function are highly activated when B12- dependent propionyl-CoA breakdown is impaired, and inactivation of these genes renders animals sensitive to propionate-induced toxicity. We provide genetic and metabolomic evidence in support of the hypothesis that these genes form a parallel, B12-independent, β-oxidation-like propionate breakdown shunt in C. elegans, similar to the pathway utilized by organisms like yeast and plants that do not use vitamin B12.
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Mechanistic Studies on the Reaction of Cob(I)alamin and Nitrite

Plymale, Noah T. 22 July 2011 (has links)
No description available.
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The effects of long-term homocysteine-lowering treatment with folic acid, vitamin B6 and Vitamin B12 on vascular structure and function in stroke

Potter, Kathleen January 2009 (has links)
[Truncated abstract] An elevated total plasma homocysteine concentration (tHcy) is associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke. Folic acid, vitamin B6 and B12 supplements significantly reduce tHcy even in people who are not overtly vitamin deficient. If homocysteine is a causal risk factor for atherothrombotic events, treatment with B-vitamins might prove a simple and cost-effective means to reduce cardiovascular risk. However, it remains unclear whether elevated tHcy causes atherosclerosis or is simply a risk marker. To prove that homocysteine is a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease it is necessary to show that lowering tHcy reduces vascular risk. The aim of this study was to determine whether long-term homocysteine-lowering with B-vitamins would improve vascular structure and function in people with a history of stroke. This study was a cross-sectional sub-study of the Vitamins TO Prevent Stroke trial (VITATOPS), a multi-centre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial designed to test the efficacy and safety of B-vitamins (folic acid 2mg, vitamin B6 25mg and vitamin B12 0.5mg) in the prevention of vascular events in patients with a recent history of stroke or transient ischemic attack. 173 VITATOPS participants were recruited for the current study. Age, sex, stroke type, medications, cardiovascular risk factors and smoking history were recorded and blood pressure, height, weight, waist and hip girth were measured in all subjects at least two years after randomisation. ... After a mean treatment period of 3.9 ± 0.9 years, the subjects randomised to vitamin treatment had significantly lower tHcy than the subjects randomised to placebo (7.9mol/L, 95%CI 7.5, 8.4 versus 11.8mol/L, 95%CI 10.9, 12.8; p<0.001). There were no significant differences between groups in CIMT (0.84 ± 0.17mm vitamins versus 0.83 ± 0.18mm placebo; p=0.74) or FMD (median of 4.0%, IQR 0.9, 7.2, vitamins versus 3.0%, IQR 0.6, 6.6 placebo; p=0.48). Pooled estimates from the meta-analyses showed that B-vitamin treatment reduces CIMT by 0.10mm (95%CI –0.20, -0.01mm) and increases FMD by 1.4%, (95%CI 0.7, 2.2), although these estimates may have been influenced by positive publication bias. The improvement in FMD was significant in studies of less than eight weeks duration but not in studies with longer treatment periods. The association between tHcy and CIMT and FMD was eliminated by adjustment for renal function and long-term B-vitamin treatment did not alter the strong linear relationship between tHcy and cystatin C. Lowering tHcy did not alter arterial wall inflammation assessed by 18FDG-PET, although small subject numbers meant we were unable to exclude a minor treatment effect. Long-term homocysteine-lowering with B-vitamin treatment did not improve CIMT or FMD or reduce arterial wall inflammation in people with a history of stroke. The relationship between tHcy and these markers of vascular risk was eliminated by adjustment for renal function. Our data are consistent with the hypothesis that elevated tHcy is a risk marker for cardiovascular disease rather than a modifiable causal risk factor.
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GRAVIDA KVINNORS INTAG AV KOSTTILLSKOTT : En kvantitativ studie med fokus på järn och probiotika / PREGNANT WOMEN´S INTAKE OF DIETARY SUPPLEMENT : A quantitative study focusing on iron and probiotics

Lange Bålman, Miriam January 2019 (has links)
Sammanfattning  Bakgrund Vitamin- och mineralbrister hos gravida kvinnor kan leda till missfall och allvarliga störningar i barnets utveckling. Moderns tarmflora överförs med stor sannolikhet till barnet under förlossningen och kan därför innebära ett viktigt steg i utvecklingen av barnets tarmflora. En tänkbar lösning för att säkra ett adekvat intag kan vara konsumtion av kosttillskott och probiotika. I dagsläget finns osäkra uppgifter om hur många gravida kvinnor som intar tillskott.  Syfte Att undersöka hur många gravida kvinnor i Västerbottens län som valde att inta kosttillskott, främst järn och probiotika, samt om det fanns en skillnad mellan olika faktorer och intag.  Metod En kvantitativ tvärsnittsstudie där gravida kvinnor (n=1473) från Northpop-studien i Västerbottens län svarade på ett frågeformulär gällande intag av kosttillskott och faktorer som ålder, utbildning, kostregim etc. De statistiska tester som användes var Chi-2-test, oberoende t-test och Mann Whitney U-test. Materialet analyserades i SPSS. Signifikansnivån sattes till p&lt;0,05.  Resultat Majoriteten av deltagarna svarade att de intog kosttillskott. Faktorer som ökade intaget av kosttillskott hos gravida kvinnor var högre ålder (p=0,030) jämfört med lägre ålder, högre utbildningsnivå (p=0,006) jämfört med lägre utbildningsnivå och vegetarisk/vegansk kost (p=0,021) jämfört med blandkost. Femtiofem procent uppgav att de intog järntillskott. De faktorer som ökade intaget av järntillskott hos gravida kvinnor var vegetarisk/vegansk kost (p=0,001) jämfört med blandkost. Probiotika intogs av 2 procent. Ett högre intag av probiotika sågs hos personer boende i stadsområde (p=0,024) jämfört med övriga boenderegioner samt de som åt vegetarisk/vegansk kost (p=0,001) jämfört med blandkost.  Slutsats Majoriteten av deltagarna intog någon typ av kosttillskott, hälften intog järntillskott och en liten andel intog probiotika. Lågutbildade, yngre, de som äter blandkost och bor utanför stadsområde verkar vara i riskgruppen för att inte inta kosttillskott. / Abstract  Background Vitamin and mineral deficiencies in pregnant women can lead to miscarriage and serious disturbances in children’s development. The intestinal flora of the mother is most likely transmitted to the child during childbirth and may lay the foundation for the child's health. One possible solution to ensure an adequate intake may be the consumption of dietary supplements and probiotics. At present, there is insufficient data on supplement consumption among pregnant women.  Objective The purpose of the study was to examine how many pregnant women in Västerbotten County chose to consume dietary supplements, mainly iron and probiotics, and whether there was a difference between different factors and intake.  Method A quantitative cross-sectional study where pregnant women (n=1473) from the Northpop-study in Västerbotten County responded to a questionnaire regarding consumption of dietary supplements and factors such as age, education, diet etc. The material was analyzed in SPSS with Chi-2-test, independent T-Test and Mann-Whitney U-Test. Using significance level &lt;0.05.  Results The majority of participants, 90 percent, responded that they consumed dietary supplements. The factors that increased the intake of dietary supplements in pregnant women were higher age (p=0.030), higher education (p=0.006) and vegetarian/vegan diet (p=0.021). Iron was reported to be consumed by 804 people, 55 percent. The factors that increased the intake of iron supplement in pregnant women were vegetarian/vegan diet (p=0.001). Probiotics were consumed by 25 people, 2 percent. Living in urban areas (p=0.024) and eating vegetarian/vegan diet (p=0.002) increased consumption of probiotics.  Conclusion The majority of participants chose to consume some type of dietary supplement, half of the participants consumed iron supplements and a small part consumed probiotics. It appears that pregnant women who are low educated, younger, eating an omnivorous diet and living outside urban areas are in the risk zone for not consuming dietary supplements. / Northpop

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