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Study shows vitamin D deficiency could increase older people’s risk of losing muscle strength by as much as 78%
Publicado em 14 de dezembro de 2022
Vitamin D plays an important role in the regulation of calcium and phosphorus absorption by an organism. It also helps keep the brain and immune system working. Researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil and University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom have now shown that vitamin D supplementation reduces the risk of dynapenia in older people by 78%.
Dynapenia is an age-associated loss of muscle strength. It can be partially explained by muscle [...]
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Post-pandemic outbreak of drug-resistant fungus in Brazil stemming from abuse of medications and full ICUs
Publicado em 01 dezembro 2022In Brazil, a group of researchers has reported the largest outbreak to date of COVID-associated candidemia caused by the same drug-resistant strain of Candida parapsilosis, a fungus that invades the bloodstream and can lead to death. The outbreak occurred in 2020-21 in an intensive care unit (ICU) at a tertiary referral hospital in Salvador, Bahia state, during one of the peaks of the COVID-19 pandemic. In an article published in the journal Emerging Microbes and Infections, the researchers [...]ver notícia