Abstract
This review of original reports on metabolic and infectious diseases that were recently published in Brazilian journals is designed to inform the readership of CLINICS about their content. I conducted a search in PubMed for original research articles (clinical or basic research) recently published (2008-2009) by Brazilian medical and biological periodicals. Papers on metabolic pathologies were retrieved by searching for appropriate keywords such as metabolic syndrome and obesity. Papers on infectious disease were obtained by entering 15 different keywords for the most commonly occurring pathologies. Review articles, editorials, letters to the editor, and case reports were manually excluded. Selected titles were then categorized into appropriate sub-categories. This search produced a total of 123 articles, which filtered down to 72 articles after eliminating editorials, review articles, letters to the Editor and case reports. Reviewed periodicals were Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia e Metabologia, Brazilian Journal of Biological and Medical Research, Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, Jornal de Pediatria, Jornal de Pneumologia, Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira, Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo, and São Paulo Medical Journal. The articles were then briefly summarized.
Highlights
This review of original reports on recently published metabolic and infectious diseases in Brazilian journals is designed to alert the readership of CLINICS about such reports
Logies were retrieved with the keywords ‘‘AIDS,’’ ‘‘HIV,’’ ‘‘hepatitis,’’ ‘‘pneumonia,’’ ‘‘meningitis,’’ ‘‘staphylococcus,’’ ‘‘streptococcus,’’ and ‘‘syphilis.’’ The following journals were found using this procedure: Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia e Metabologia, Brazilian Journal of Biological and Medical Research, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Jornal de Pediatria, Jornal de Pneumologia, Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira, Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de Sao Paulo, and Sao Paulo Medical Journal
Santos et al.[1] evaluated the frequency of metabolic syndrome among adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus according to the criteria of the International Diabetes Federation, the National Cholesterol Education Program, and the World Health Organization and concluded that the latter set of criteria may be preferable in identifying patients in this group, because of better sensitivity
Summary
I conducted a PubMed search for recently published papers (2008–2009) in a nine Brazilian journals which were the most likely sources of original articles on the reviewed subjects. Two studies found that the progressive intermingling of Brazilians of Japanese origin with other cultures led to an increased incidence of metabolic syndrome in the resulting offspring.[30,31] Haun et al.[32] compared the waist-height ratio in a population of 968 inhabitants of the city of Salvador, Brazil with a number of other indicators and found that indicators of abdominal obesity are better for discriminating coronary risk than body mass index. The prevalence of ventilator-associated pneumonia was studied by Rodrigues et al.[66] in a database of 233 patients on mechanical ventilation, and the investigators concluded that a high incidence of infection with resistant bacteria and inappropriate initial antibiotic therapy with long time on mechanical ventilation and prior use of antibiotics are risk factors for the onset of pneumonia. Cury et al.[72] studied 151 methicillin-resistant (MRSA) strains isolated from patients admitted to tertiary care hospitals in two metropolitan areas (Campinas City and Ribeirao Preto) in the southeast of Brazil through PCRbased techniques and found that the variability among such strains is larger than previously reported, indicating that the techniques used by these authors can be an alternative to pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
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