Exercício físico na diabetes: missão impossível ou uma questão de motivação?

Pulling from self-determination theory (SDT) and motivational interviewing (MI), this article sought to present contemporary frameworks for understanding and promoting human motivation as useful tools for health professionals aiming to facilitate adoption and adherence to physical activity, presenting empirical evidence for its use. Practical strategies that may be used by a health professional to create an autonomy-supportive, well-structured, and interpersonally involved exercise counseling environment, more likely to support selfdetermined motivation, also are presented.Combining the strong theoretical underpinnings of SDT and the strong clinical base of MI should allow for much progress in developing the kind of motivation required to initiate and maintain exercise behaviors over the long term. These relatively simple and straightforward principles can be incorporated into existing approaches currently used by professionals who desire to improve their effectiveness, enhancing positive outcomes in terms of exercise adoption, adherence, and well-being;     

Targeted exon sequencing in deceased schizophrenia patients in Denmark

International Journal of Legal Medicine - Schizophrenia patients have higher mortality rates and lower life expectancy than the general population. However, forensic investigations of their deaths...     

Documento de consenso sobre codificação de exames de ressonância magnética cardíaca em Portugal

One of the obstacles to more frequent and appropriate use of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) in Portugal has been the lack of specific codes that accurately describe these examinations as they are currently performed. In this consensus document, recommendations are made for updating and standardizing CMR codes in Portugal. Guidance on which techniques and codes should be used in the most common clinical scenarios is also provided.     

Measurements of the normal fetal brain at gestation weeks 17 to 23: a MRI study

Introduction  

To obtain measurements of the normal fetal brain before 24 weeks of gestation (GW), a deadline for medical decisions on fetal viability in a large number of countries.     

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection and takotsubo syndrome: The chicken or the egg causality dilemma

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) including spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) has been reported to trigger its own clinical twin takotsubo syndrome (TS). The pathogenetic association between SCAD and TS remains to be elucidated. The two diseases afflict predominantly women and both conditions may be triggered by an emotional stress factor and an unusual extreme physical exercise. Herein, we describe a case of 54‐year‐old woman presenting with ACS caused by an obtuso‐marginal SCAD. Concurrently, the patient had typical clinical features and course of mid‐apical pattern of TS. The causal link between the two conditions is discussed. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Increasing the reference populations for the 55 AISNP panel: the need and benefits

Ancestry inference for an individual can only be as good as the reference populations with allele frequency data on the SNPs being used. If the most relevant ancestral population(s) does not have data available for the SNPs studied, then analyses based on DNA evidence may indicate a quite distantly related population, albeit one among the more closely related of the existing reference populations. We have added reference population allele frequencies for 14 additional population samples (with >1100 individuals studied) to the 125 population samples previously published for the Kidd Lab 55 AISNP panel. Allele frequencies are now publicly available for all 55 SNPs in ALFRED and FROG-kb for a total of 139 population samples. This Kidd Lab panel of 55 ancestry informative SNPs has been incorporated in commercial kits by both ThermoFisher Scientific and Illumina for massively parallel sequencing. Researchers employing those kits will find the enhanced set of reference populations useful.

     

Salmonella sp. in game (Sus scrofa and Oryctolagus cuniculus)

The role of wildlife in the epidemiology of Salmonella sp.-induced diseases is a matter of increasing concern to public health. However, to date, reports on the occurrence of Salmonella sp. in game hunted for human consumption are very limited. The current study was designed to evaluate the prevalence of Salmonella sp. in fecal samples of wild boars and wild rabbits hunted in Northern Portugal. The results show that 22% of the (17/77) wild boar and 48% (38/80) of the wild rabbit presented Salmonella sp. in their feces. Two serovars were identified from samples of wild boars: Salmonella Typhimurium (65%) and Salmonella Rissen (35%). Five serovars were identified from wild rabbit samples: Salmonella Rissen (29%), Salmonella Enteritidis (26%), Salmonella Havana (24%), Salmonella Typhimurium (16%), and Salmonella Derby (5%). These results confirm the importance of wild boar and wild rabbit as carriers of pathogenic Salmonella serovars. Hence, they could represent sources of infection not only for animals (wild and domestic) but also for humans.     

Genetic investigations of 100 inherited cardiac disease-related genes in deceased individuals with schizophrenia

International Journal of Legal Medicine - Cardiac diseases and sudden cardiac death (SCD) are more prevalent in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia compared to the general population, with...