scholarly journals Clinical-epidemiological profile of children and adolescents with COVID-19 in Ceará

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (suppl 2) ◽  
pp. 429-435
Author(s):  
Ana Nery Melo Cavalcante ◽  
Lohanna Valeska de Sousa Tavares ◽  
Maria Luiza Almeida Bastos ◽  
Rosa Lívia Freitas de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
State Government ◽  
School Children ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Male Gender ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Robust Variance ◽  
Epidemiological Profile

Abstract Objectives: to describe the clinical-epidemiological profile of children and adolescents notified by COVID-19 in Ceará. Methods: descriptive epidemiological study from open data repositories of the State Government of Ceará, about cases of OVID-19 in children and adolescents, from 03/15/2020 to 07/31/2020. For data analysis the tests χ2 Pearson, Fisher's exact and Poisson's regression with robust variance were used. Results: 48,002 cases of children and adolescents suspected of COVID-19 were reported, of which 18,180 (8.9%) were confirmed. The median of confirmed cases was 12 years old, 10.5% were newborns/lactants, 10.7% were pre-school children, 21.2% were school children and 57.7% were adolescents. They evolved to death 0.3% of the cases, of which 15% had comorbidities. They needed hospitalization 1.8% of the cases. The highest probability of hospitalization was found in newborns/lactants, male and with comorbidities. Conclusions: most of the confirmed cases occurred in adolescents, however, the evolution of the disease was more severe and with greater need for hospitalization in the age group of newborns/lactants, being the male gender and the presence of comorbidities additional factors for the need for hospitalization.

scholarly journals Epidemiological Profile of Meningitis Cases in the Southeast Region in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Pugas Paim Lima ◽  
Bruna Trindade Andrade ◽  
Jéssika Pereira Marques Diniz ◽  
Raphaela Hissa de Oliveira Cabral
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Southeast Region ◽  
Notifiable Diseases ◽  
Clinical Evolution ◽  
Epidemiological Profile ◽  
Espirito Santo

This project has as an objective the analysis of the epidemiological profile of the cases of meningitis in the southeastern of Brazil, comparingetiologies, age group and evolution. The study has an epidemiological profile where confirmed cases were selected between 2010-2019. The approach was quantitative through research on the DATASUS platform, in the field of Diseases and Notifiable Diseases - SINAN. There’s a predominance of deaths due to Other Bacteria, the same being predominant in the age group of 40-59 and less in 80 year olds or more. In addition, it’s noticed less occurrence of Haemophilus Meningitis with a predilection for infants. In Espirito Santo, there’s a higher incidence of deaths from, mainly affecting the age group of 20-39 year olds, which accounts for 20% of the cases. In Rio de Janeiro, there’s a predominance of Other Bacterias, which corresponds to 20.7% of the total cases, in those aged 20-39 years. In São Paulo, there’s a supremacy of Viral with 59% of total cases, affecting mainly children, with emphasis on 1-4 year olds, having a good clinical evolution, however, corresponds to 7% of the total deaths. If untreated, the morbimortality is profound, it’s important to recognize the epidemiological profile of the pathology so that the approach to patients who present it, is the most targeted and effective as possible. Data analysis showed that Other Bacterias Meningitis is the main cause of death, therefore, epidemiology is associated with severity and lethality.

scholarly journals Elderly patients with facial trauma: a 10 year review

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 618-623
Author(s):  
Mateus Giacomin ◽  
Ferdinando De Conto ◽  
Simone Pinheiro Siqueira ◽  
Pedro Henrique Signori ◽  
João Matheus Scherbaum Eidt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Records ◽  
Geriatric Patients ◽  
Maxillofacial Surgery ◽  
Male Gender ◽  
Facial Trauma ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Physiological Changes ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Epidemiological Profile ◽  
Surgery Department

Abstract Objective: to analyze the epidemiological profile of geriatric patients with facial trauma treated at a Maxillofacial Surgery Department in southern Brazil over a period of 10 years. Methods: a retrospective analysis of the medical records of patients aged over 60 years treated for facial trauma in the period from January 2001 to December 2010 was performed. Result: of a total of 1,385 analyzed medical records of patients with facial trauma, 86 (6.2%) belonged to the group aged 60-89 years. The male gender was the most affected and the age group 60-69 years was the most frequently involved. The middle third was the most affected, and the zygomatic bone was the most commonly fractured. Conclusion: special attention should be given to the 60-69 age group, as while such patients present physiological changes inherent to aging, they remain active in society and exposed to risk factors for facial trauma.

scholarly journals PhenoMeNal: Processing and analysis of Metabolomics data in the Cloud

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Peters ◽  
James Bradbury ◽  
Sven Bergmann ◽  
Marco Capuccini ◽  
Marta Cascante ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Metabolome Analysis ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Metabolomics Data ◽  
Web Interfaces ◽  
Data Formats

AbstractBackgroundMetabolomics is the comprehensive study of a multitude of small molecules to gain insight into an organism’s metabolism. The research field is dynamic and expanding with applications across biomedical, biotechnological and many other applied biological domains. Its computationally-intensive nature has driven requirements for open data formats, data repositories and data analysis tools. However, the rapid progress has resulted in a mosaic of independent – and sometimes incompatible – analysis methods that are difficult to connect into a useful and complete data analysis solution.FindingsThe PhenoMeNal (Phenome and Metabolome aNalysis) e-infrastructure provides a complete, workflow-oriented, interoperable metabolomics data analysis solution for a modern infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platform. PhenoMeNal seamlessly integrates a wide array of existing open source tools which are tested and packaged as Docker containers through the project’s continuous integration process and deployed based on a kubernetes orchestration framework. It also provides a number of standardized, automated and published analysis workflows in the user interfaces Galaxy, Jupyter, Luigi and Pachyderm.ConclusionsPhenoMeNal constitutes a keystone solution in cloud infrastructures available for metabolomics. It provides scientists with a ready-to-use, workflow-driven, reproducible and shareable data analysis platform harmonizing the software installation and configuration through user-friendly web interfaces. The deployed cloud environments can be dynamically scaled to enable large-scale analyses which are interfaced through standard data formats, versioned, and have been tested for reproducibility and interoperability. The flexible implementation of PhenoMeNal allows easy adaptation of the infrastructure to other application areas and ‘omics research domains.

Nutrition Status of School Children in Punjab, India: Findings from School Health Surveys

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhur Verma ◽  
Priyanka Sharma ◽  
Poonam Khanna ◽  
Rachana Srivastava ◽  
Soumya Swaroop Sahoo
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Nutrition Status ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Nutrition Interventions ◽  
Intergenerational Cycle ◽  
High Level

Abstract Background School-going children and adolescents are rarely targeted in nutrition surveys, despite the significant impact of nutritional status on their health, cognition, educational achievements and future economic productivity. The present secondary data analysis evaluated the nutritional status of children and adolescents in the 5–18 years age group. Materials and methods The anthropometric measurements of children and adolescents studying in the government and government-aided schools were collected under the ‘Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram’ in the District Fatehgarh Sahib of Punjab, India between March and August 2018. It was analyzed using SPSS version 21. Mean and standard deviation for weight-for-age, height-for-age, body mass index (BMI) for age z-scores were calculated using World Health Organization’s Anthro-plus software. Results A total of 897 children’s data were included in the study. Out of 352 children in 5–9 years age group, mean weight, height and BMI were 15.7 ± 3.8 kg, 110.7 ± 10.6 cm and 12.7 ± 2.1 kg/m2. About 58.8%, 37.4% and 31.8% of the children were categorized as severely underweight, stunted and thin, respectively. In the 10–18 years age group, mean weight, height and BMI were 30.5 ± 9.5 kg, 140 ± 13.4 cm and 15.2 ± 2.6 kg/m2. Severe stunting was present in 19.4% of adolescents, while 26.9% were severely thin. Conclusion Our study depicts a high level of undernutrition in school-going children and adolescents. There is a need to strengthen the nutrition interventions for middle childhood and adolescence period that can help in a healthy transition from childhood to adulthood and break the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition. Lay summary National and state-level health-priorities focus mainly on improving the nutrition status of under-5-year children, while the school-going children and adolescents are usually neglected. The present secondary data analysis estimates the burden of malnutrition in school-going children and adolescents. These data were collected under one of India's national health programs that intend to tackle childhood illnesses. Our study depicts a high level of undernutrition in school-going children and adolescents. We found that girls were affected more by malnutrition in middle childhood, i.e. during 5–9 years (both by stunting and thinness) compared to boys. But in middle and late adolescence, males were more stunted and thin compared to females. Programs to support adolescents' nutrition interventions could provide an opportunity for a healthy transition from childhood to adulthood and could be an essential step in breaking the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition.

Do Our Children Play Safe?

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-163
Author(s):  
Naveen Kumar Ramagoni ◽  
Y. Rajmohan Shetty ◽  
Amitha Hegde
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
School Children ◽  
Emergency Care ◽  
South India ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Urban School ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Protective Devices ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Sports participation is a frequent cause of injury in general to children and adolescents. 719 athletically active school children belonging to the age group of 11-14 years were selected from the four urban localities in south India (i.e, Bangalore Chennai, Cochin & Hyderabad). Data was collected by a well structured questionnaire. The results revealed that the south Indian urban school children had inadequate levels of awareness regarding orofacial injuries and their emergency care. The knowledge regarding protective devices was found to be minimal. Majority of the children were aware of mouthguards but their usage was nil.

scholarly journals Analysis of Deaths Occurred in Households during the Pandemic by COVID-19 in a Brazilian Amazon Region: An Epidemiological Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Ana Lúcia da Silva Ferreira ◽  
Daniele Melo Sardinha ◽  
Phelipe da Silva Rodrigues ◽  
Adriana Pimentel Veras ◽  
Ricardo José de Paula Souza e Guimarães ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Death Certificate ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Male Gender ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Brazilian Amazon Region ◽  
Proper Diagnosis ◽  
Epidemiological Profile ◽  
Epidemiological Approach ◽  
At Home

In the absence of an analysis of deaths at home from an epidemiological perspective, this study aims to analyze and describe the epidemiological profile of deaths at home assessed by the Death Ceremony Service (DCS) during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the metropolitan region of the Brazilian Amazon, Belém do Pará. A descriptive, quantitative, secondary-based study based on the databases of the Mortality Information System (SIM), referring to the deaths that occurred from March 1 to March 27 June 2020. The variables worked were related to the profile and the causes in the death certificate. The causes of home deaths in 2019 were used to compare with 2020. In the indicated period, 1,203 deaths occurred, an increase of 454% in relation to 2019. The male gender (57.30%), the age group of 60+ (80.80%) and brown race (77.70%) were the most frequent. The main cause of death Acute myocardial infarction (15.05%) followed by COVID-19 (10.29%). During the pandemic, the majority of home deaths were not directly caused by COVID-19, however, they were influenced by it due to the need for social isolation, with the impossibility of obtaining the proper diagnosis or proper treatment, due to the impossibility of on-site care or lack of immediate response.

Epidemiological profile of obesity in mid school children

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
Vikas Narayan Solunke ◽  
◽  
Yogita Gaikwad ◽  
Shivprasad Mundada ◽  
Kiran Bhaisare ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Epidemiological Profile

Major Causes of Child Labour Among School Childern in the Kete-Krachi District

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
Patrick Yeyie
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
School Children ◽  
Prevalence Rate ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Education Data ◽  
Large Families ◽  
The Government

In Ghana, about 20% of school children are involved in some form of child labor. In the Oti Region of Ghana, the Kete-Krachi district has the highest prevalence rate of about 39% compared to 33.2% for the whole region. This paper investigates the major causes of child labor among School children in the Kete-Krachi district of the Oti Region. The study examined 145 respondents through questionnaire and interviews. The research design for the study was both quantitative and qualitative. The respondents comprised 60 JHS social studies teachers, 60 Victims of child labor, 15 parents or guardians of the victims of child labor and 10 stakeholders of education. Data analysis showed that 67% of the victims were from large families of five or more. It was found out that some of the victims worked to contribute to their own welfare. Others worked due to poverty. Some victims also work to promote their education. It was also observed that teachers, opinion leaders, NGOs and the Government should help in the eradication of the menace in Kete-Krachi area.

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