As publicações científicas assumem papel importante na difusão dos conhecimentos adquiridos através das diversas pesquisas realizadas.

Durante o mês de junho, os coordenadores de pesquisa do Citecs - Instituto Nacional de Ciência, Inovação e Tecnologia em Saúde publicaram dez artigos científicos, segundo acompanhamento feito através do site PubMed.

Em 2011, já somam-se 37 publicações, onde os mais variados temas são abordados com o objetivo de contribuir para a melhoria da saúde dos brasileiros.

Confira as publicações já realizadas em 2011:

• Patterns of skin prick test positivity in allergic patients: usefulness of a nationwide SPT chart review
• Change in age pattern of persons with dengue, northeastern Brazil
• Residual kidney function and quality of life in incident hemodialysis patients
• The associations of social support and other psychosocial factors with mortality and quality of life in the dialysis outcomes and practice patterns study
• Association between allergies and multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Incremental costs of introducing jet injection technology for delivery of routine childhood vaccinations: comparative analysis from Brazil, India, and South Africa
• Silent saliva aspiration in Parkinson's disease
• Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in Brazil. Clinical and histological profile
• Radiologic findings of pulmonary tuberculosis in adolescents
• Obesity and poor asthma control in patients with severe asthma
• Anabolic-androgenic steroids: a possible new risk factor of toxicant-associated fatty liver disease
• Overweight, asthma symptoms, atopy and pulmonary function in children of 4-12 years of age: findings from the SCAALA cohort in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
• Evidence for a modulatory effect of IL-10 on both Th1 and Th2 cytokine production: the role of the environment
• Toxocara canis infection is associated with eosinophilia and total IgE in blood donors from a large Brazilian centre
• Demand for sanitation in Salvador, Brazil: A hybrid choice approach
• [Weight gain rate in early childhood and overweight in children 5-11 years old in Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil]
• Individual and contextual determinants of the duration of diarrhoeal episodes in preschool children: a longitudinal study in an urban setting
• Dengue fever continues to challenge and to puzzle
• Evidence of an effect of BCG revaccination on incidence of tuberculosis in school-aged children in Brazil: Second report of the BCG-REVAC cluster-randomised trial
• Successes and failures in the control of infectious diseases in Brazil: social and environmental context, policies, interventions, and research needs
• Handgrip Strength as a Simple Indicator of Possible Malnutrition and Inflammation in Men and Women on Maintenance Hemodialysis
• Chronic virus infections supress atopy but not asthma in a set of children from a large Latin American city: A cross-section study
• A study on the immunological basis of the dissociation between type I-hypersensitivity skin reactions to Blomia tropicalis antigens and serum anti-B. tropicalis IgE antibodies
• Health conditions and health-policy innovations in Brazil: the way forward
• Trends in Primary Health Care-sensitive Conditions in Brazil: The Role of the Family Health Program (Project ICSAP-Brazil)
• Disparities in mother-to-child transmission in Northeast Brazil: regional failures within successful country programs
• Lack of association of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase polymorphisms with interferon-alpha-related depression in hepatitis C
• Seroprevalence and risk factors for canine toxocariasis by detection of specific IgG as a marker of infection in dogs from Salvador, Brazil
• The malnutrition-inflammation score: a valid nutritional tool to assess mortality risk in kidney transplant patients.
• A piezoelectric immunosensor for Leishmania chagasi antibodies in canine serum.
• Lack of association of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase polymorphisms with interferon-alpha-related depression in hepatitis C.
• Seroprevalence and risk factors for canine toxocariasis by detection of specific IgG as a marker of infection in dogs from Salvador, Brazil.
• Impact of early life exposures to geohelminth infections on the development of vaccine immunity, allergic sensitization, and allergic inflammatory diseases in children living in tropical Ecuador: the ECUAVIDA birth cohort study.
• Pattern of asthma medication use among children from a large urban center in Brazil.
• Oocysts ingestion as an important transmission route Of toxoplasma gondii in Brazilian urban children.
• Assessment of the psychological burden associated with pruritus in hemodialysis patients using the kidney disease quality of life short form.
• Family Income and Survival in Brazilian Peritoneal Dialysis Multicenter Study Patients (BRAZPD): Time to Revisit a Myth?