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Healthy habits could prevent 27% of cancer cases in Brazil
Publicado em 15 maio 2019
Lifestyle risk factors such as smoking, alcohol consumption, overweight and obesity, unhealthy diet and lack of physical activity areassociated with a third of all deaths caused by 20 types of cancerin Brazil, according to a new epidemiological study.
Published in the journalCancer Epidemiology, the study shows that lifestyle risk factors account for 114,497 annual cases of cancer in Brazil, whichrepresents 27% of all cancer cases, and 63,000 deaths, or 34% of cancer mortality.
The study was [...]
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Genetic study seeks to prevent foodborne infection caused by Salmonella
Publicado em 22 fevereiro 2019A group of researchers from the School of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, at the State University of São Paulo (FCAV-UNESP) in Jaboticabal, are investigating genes that are important for the survival of the bacterial species Salmonella in the intestinal tract of poultry. The goal is to prevent foodborne infections in humans. There are more than 2,600 known serotypes of salmonella. Some are responsible for cases of infection in animals and humans. The presence of certain serotypes in [...]ver notícia