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| Olmos,R.D.; Figueiredo,R.C. de; Aquino,E.M.; Lotufo,P.A.; Bensenor,I.M.. |
| Thyroid diseases are common, and use of levothyroxine is increasing worldwide. We investigated the influence of gender, race and socioeconomic status on the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disorders using data from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil), a multicenter cohort study of civil servants (35-74 years of age) from six Brazilian cities. Diagnosis of thyroid dysfunction was by thyrotropin (TSH), and free thyroxine (FT4) if TSH was altered, and the use of specific medications. Multivariate logistic regression models were constructed using overt hyperthyroidism/hypothyroidism and levothyroxine use as dependent variables and sociodemographic characteristics as independent variables. The frequencies of overt hyper- and... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Thyroid dysfunction; Treatment of thyroid disorders; Levothyroxine; Gender; Socioeconomic status; Race. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2015000800751 |
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| Santos-Neto,P.J.; Sena-Santos,E.H.; Meireles,D.P.; Santos,I.S.; Bensenor,I.M.; Lotufo,P.A.. |
| Carotid artery assessment by ultrasound is a non-invasive evaluation of subclinical atherosclerosis and a predictor of cardiovascular events. However, ultrasound examinations are operator-dependent. In the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil), ultrasound images have been acquired from more than 10,000 participants. In this article, we describe the reproducibility of carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT), carotid plaque detection, and carotid plaque score (defined as the number of arterial sites with plaques) using ELSA-Brasil protocol, in a subset of 118 participants. Two board-certified radiologists and a trained technician read carotid images. We calculated intra- and inter-observer intraclass correlation (ICC) for CIMT values. We... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Plaque; Intima-media; Epidemiology; Ultrasound; Imaging. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2019000800610 |
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