OBJECTIVE To analyze time and geographical trends of breast cancer mortality. METHODS Annual mortality rates per 100,000 female inhabitants aged 20 to 59 years for the Baixada Santista metropolitan area, the city and state of São Paulo and Brazil, from 1980 to 1999, were standardized by age groups and analyzed. The analyses included regression models to estimate and compare time trends of eac...

BACKGROUND Adherence to oral antidiabetic medications is often suboptimal. Adherence differences may contribute to health disparities for black diabetes patients, including higher microvascular event rates, greater complication-related disability, and earlier mortality. METHODS In this longitudinal retrospective cohort study, we used 10 years of patient-level claims and electronic medical rec...

4. Grinberg M, Chehaibar GZ. Enquete Testemunha de Jeová. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2010;95(6):765-6. References DOI: 10.5935/abc.20130133 Dear Editor, In the national and international1-3 medical literature, there is a growing number of manuscripts that focus on bioethics on the medical conduct. A relevant point is the potential for conflict between the benefit (the standpoint of a prudent and diligen...

The rate of proximal tubular reabsorption of phosphate (Pi) is a major determinant of Pi homeostasis. Deviations of the extracellular concentration of Piare corrected by many factors that control the activity of Na-Pi cotransport across the apical membrane. In this review, we describe the regulation of proximal tubule Pi reabsorption via one particular Na-Pi cotransporter (the type IIa cotransp...

the topological indices, defined as the sum of contributions of all pairs of vertices (among which are the wiener, harary, hyper–wiener indices, degree distance, and many others), are expressed in terms of contributions of edges and pairs of edges.

MS 2 morphology is strongly influenced by several parameters including the addition of a chelating agent and sulfidation temperature. In this work, we report use citric acid as in order to prepare series WS /Al O 3 catalysts that were submitted at temperatures. The effect these two slabs was explored means CO adsorption low temperature followed IR spectroscopy (IR/CO) later confirmed High-Resol...

the edge detour index polynomials were recently introduced for computing theedge detour indices. in this paper we nd relations among edge detour polynomials for the2-dimensional graph of tuc4c8(s) in a euclidean plane and tuc4c8(s) nanotorus.

This paper proposed an edge detection scheme which is deduced from Fresnel diffraction. Analysis in this paper shows that Fresnel convolution kernel function performs well on edge enhancement when images are transformed into complex functions. Due to its mathematical complexity, the method is simplified into a linear convolution filter. The new edge detector is designed based on the simplified ...

We discuss a new algorithm based on a network measure, local betweenness centrality (LBC), for search in complex networks that are heterogeneous in node degree and edge weights. LBC search utilizes both the heterogeneities and performs the best in scale-free weighted networks. We further argue that the amount of information used by LBC search could be optimal.