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  1. El potencial de la metilación del ADN como biomarcador de la degeneración macular asociada a la edad: una revisión sistemática
  2. Epigenetic Signatures of DNMTs and Retinal Structural Changes in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
  3. The potential of DNA methylation as a biomarker for age-related macular degeneration: A systematic review
  4. Rotavirus alphagastroenteritidis: Circulating Strains After the Introduction of the Rotavirus Vaccine (Rotarix®) in Luanda Province of Angola
  5. Treating sickle cell disease in resource-limited sub-Saharan Africa: recent strategies and recommendations in addressing the gaps for the provision of evidence-based management
  6. <i>Rotavirus alphagastroenteritidis</i> Circulating Strains after the Introduction of the Rotavirus Vaccine (Rotarix®) in Luanda Province of Angola
  7. The effects of nutritional supplementation for children and adolescents with sickle cell disease: A systematic review and meta-analyses
  8. DNA Methyltransferase Expression (DNMT1, DNMT3a, and DNMT3b) as a Potential Biomarker in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
  9. SARS-CoV-2 Immunization Index in the Academic Community: A Retrospective Post-Vaccination Study
  10. Sickle Cell Disease and Gut Health: The Influence of Intestinal Parasites and the Microbiome on Angolan Children
  11. Sickle Cell Disease: Current Drug Treatments and Functional Foods with Therapeutic Potential
  12. Genetic Modifiers of Stroke in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease—A Scoping Review
  13. Genetic Modifiers of Sickle Cell Anemia Phenotype in a Cohort of Angolan Children
  14. Characterization of a cohort of Angolan children with sickle cell anemia treated with hydroxyurea
  15. Genetic Profile of Rotavirus Type A in Children under 5 Years Old in Africa: A Systematic Review of Prevalence
  16. Differential expression of adhesion molecules in sickle cell anemia and gut microbiome effect
  17. Clinical characteristics and variables associated with COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in Luanda, Angola, in the first year of the pandemic
  18. Influence of cigarette smoking on the Index of Cardiac Electrophysiological Balance in apparently healthy Angolans
  19. Towards an Integrated Approach on Occupational Health to Tackle COVID19 Pandemic
  20. Factors associated with poor asthma symptom control in adult Angolan regularly seen at an outpatient respiratory clinic
  21. Influence of cigarette smoking on the Index of Cardiac Electrophysiological Balance in apparently healthy Angolans
  22. Effects of Quercetin in transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of fetal hemoglobin
  23. Are Genetic Modifiers the Answer to Different Responses to Hydroxyurea Treatment?—A Pharmacogenetic Study in Sickle Cell Anemia Angolan Children
  24. PCR-confirmed malaria among children presenting with a decreased level of consciousness in Angola: a prospective, observational study
  25. DNA methyltransferase expression (DNMT1, DNMT3a and DNMT3b) as a potential biomarker for anti-VEGF diabetic macular edema response
  26. 5589865 PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM THE FOLLOW-UP OF PREGNANT SICKLE CELL DISEASE PATIENTS IN LUANDA, ANGOLA.
  27. Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development
  28. Efficacy and safety of pharmacological interventions for managing sickle cell disease complications in children and adolescents: Systematic review with network meta‐analysis
  29. Epigenetic and Drug Response Modulation of Epigalocaten-In-3-Gallate in Staphylococcus aureus with Divergent Resistance Phenotypes
  30. Efficacy and safety of pharmacological interventions for managing sickle cell disease in children and adolescents: protocol for a systematic review with network meta-analysis
  31. Gut microbiota profile of COVID-19 patients: Prognosis and risk stratification (MicroCOVID-19 study)
  32. Microbial gut evaluation in an angolan paediatric population with sickle cell disease
  33. Genetic modulation of anemia severity, hemolysis level, and hospitalization rate in Angolan children with Sickle Cell Anemia
  34. Dengue virus among HIV-infected pregnant women attending antenatal care in Luanda, Angola: An emerging public health concern
  35. How Hydroxyurea Alters the Gut Microbiome: A Longitudinal Study Involving Angolan Children with Sickle Cell Anemia
  36. Asthma Prevalence in Adolescent Students from a Portuguese Primary and Secondary School
  37. Electrocardiographic findings in pregnant women in Angola
  38. Epigenetic and Transcriptional Modulator Potential of Epigallocatechin-3-gallate and Genistein on Fetal Hemoglobin Reactivators Genes
  39. Helminth infections and allergic diseases: Systematic review and meta-analysis of the global literature
  40. Drug Resistance and Epigenetic Modulatory Potential of Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate Against Staphylococcus aureus
  41. Prevalence of major and minor electrocardiographic abnormalities and their relationship with cardiovascular risk factors in Angolans
  42. Zinc Deficiency Interacts with Intestinal/Urogenital Parasites in the Pathway to Anemia in Preschool Children, Bengo–Angola
  43. Prevalence and Risk Factors of SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Parturients and Newborns from Luanda, Angola
  44. Prevalence of atrial fibrillation in Bengo Province, Angola: Results from a population-based study
  45. Microbiological Contamination Assessment in Higher Education Institutes
  46. Lack of Consistent Association between Asthma, Allergic Diseases, and Intestinal Helminth Infection in School-Aged Children in the Province of Bengo, Angola
  47. Genotypic Diversity among Angolan Children with Sickle Cell Anemia
  48. Identification of Genetic Variants in 65 Obesity Related Genes in a Cohort of Portuguese Obese Individuals
  49. Physicians’ perceptions of their knowledge and the preparedness of health facilities in Angola to diagnose and manage COVID-19
  50. Impact of Annual Albendazole versus Four-Monthly Test-and-Treat Approach of Intestinal Parasites on Children Growth—A Longitudinal Four-Arm Randomized Parallel Trial during Two Years of a Community Follow-Up in Bengo, Angola
  51. Factors Influencing HIV Drug Resistance among Pregnant Women in Luanda, Angola: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Study
  52. Clinical, serological and DNA testing in Bengo Province, Angola further reveals low filarial endemicity and opportunities for disease elimination
  53. Co-Inheritance of alpha-thalassemia and sickle cell disease in a cohort of Angolan pediatric patients
  54. HIV, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and syphilis among pregnant women attending antenatal care in Luanda, Angola: Seroprevalence and risk factors
  55. Iron deficiency anaemia among 6-to-36-month children from northern Angola
  56. Helminth infections, atopy, asthma and allergic diseases: protocol for a systematic review of observational studies worldwide
  57. Sensitisation to aeroallergens in relation to asthma and other allergic diseases in Angolan children: a cross-sectional study
  58. Blood pressure and its circadian pattern in obese and lean premenopausal women
  59. Genetic diversity and drug resistance of HIV-1 among infected pregnant women newly diagnosed in Luanda, Angola
  60. Environmentally Relevant Concentrations of Bisphenol A Interact with Doxorubicin Transcriptional Effects in Human Cell Lines
  61. Determinants of maternal health care and birth outcome in the Dande Health and Demographic Surveillance System area, Angola
  62. Integrated community-based intervention for urinary schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in children from Caxito, Angola
  63. Unusual β-Globin Haplotype Distribution in Newborns from Bengo, Angola
  64. Efficacy of Nutrition and WASH/Malaria Educational Community-Based Interventions in Reducing Anemia in Preschool Children from Bengo, Angola: Study Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial
  65. Gender and socio-demographic distribution of body mass index: The nutrition transition in an adult Angolan community
  66. Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Angolan Adults: A Descriptive Analysis from CardioBengo, a Community-Based Survey
  67. Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension, diabetes and hypercholesterolaemia among adults in Dande municipality, Angola
  68. Tobacco consumption and nicotine dependence in Bengo Province, Angola: A community-based survey
  69. Molecular characterization of Giardia lamblia in children less than 5 years of age with diarrhoea attending the Bengo General Hospital, Angola
  70. Mapping freshwater snails in north-western Angola: distribution, identity and molecular diversity of medically important taxa
  71. Rapid integrated clinical survey to determine prevalence and co-distribution patterns of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis in a Loa loa co-endemic area: The Angolan experience
  72. Antimicrobial storage and antibiotic knowledge in the community: a cross-sectional pilot study in north-western Angola
  73. HDSS Profile: The Dande Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Dande HDSS, Angola)
  74. Unacylated ghrelin does not seem to influence glucose homeostasis in obese women
  75. Characterization of rotavirus infection in children with acute gastroenteritis in Bengo province, Northwestern Angola, prior to vaccine introduction
  76. Loa loa vectors Chrysops spp.: perspectives on research, distribution, bionomics, and implications for elimination of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis
  77. Role of Macronutrients and Micronutrients in DNA Damage: Results From a Food Frequency Questionnaire
  78. Comparing concentration methods: parasitrap® versus Kato-Katz for studying the prevalence of Helminths in Bengo province, Angola
  79. Main causes of death in Dande, Angola: results from Verbal Autopsies of deaths occurring during 2009–2012
  80. CardioBengo study protocol: a population based cardiovascular longitudinal study in Bengo Province, Angola
  81. Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance in Angola
  82. Etiology of Diarrhea in Children Younger Than 5 Years Attending the Bengo General Hospital in Angola
  83. Relation between DNA damage measured by comet assay and OGG1 Ser326Cys polymorphism in antineoplastic drugs biomonitoring
  84. Poster Sessions
  85. Insulin resistance does not play a major role in lipid and apolipoprotein profile in obese women
  86. Genotoxic assessment in different exposure groups working with antineoplastic agents
  87. Comet assay as a human biomonitoring tool: application in occupational exposure to antineoplastic drugs
  88. Influence of Serum Levels of Vitamins A, D, and E as well as Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms on Micronucleus Frequencies and Other Biomarkers of Genotoxicity in Workers Exposed to Formaldehyde
  89. Micronutrients intake associated with DNA damage assessed by in a human biomonitoring study
  90. Assessment of Genotoxic Effects in Nurses Handling Cytostatic Drugs
  91. 3. Human nutrition, DNA damage and cancer: a review
  92. Diarrhea etiological study in children under five in the Bengo General Hospital, Angola
  93. Clinical and genetic factors predicting response to therapy in patients with Crohn's disease
  94. Impact of a training course on the quality of malaria diagnosis by microscopy in Angola
  95. IL23R polymorphisms influence phenotype and response to therapy in patients with ulcerative colitis
  96. Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency in Children from 0 to 14 Years Hospitalized at the Pediatric Hospital David Bernardino, Luanda, Angola
  97. Association of FTO and PPARG polymorphisms with obesity in Portuguese women
  98. Exposure and Genotoxicity Assessment Methodologies - The Case of Formaldehyde Occupational Exposure
  99. The influence of genetic polymorphisms in XRCC3 and ADH5 genes on the frequency of genotoxicity biomarkers in workers exposed to formaldehyde
  100. Factors Related with Adiponectinemia in Obese and Normal-Weight Women and with Its Variation in Weight Loss Programs
  101. Current research issues in occupational and environmental exposure in Portugal and Europe
  102. Reversible bone marrow necrosis after all-trans retinoic acid induction therapy for acute promyelocytic leukaemia
  103. Genotoxicity biomarkers in occupational exposure to formaldehyde—The case of histopathology laboratories
  104. Q192R polymorphism of the paraoxonase-1 gene as a risk factor for obesity in Portuguese women
  105. Differential expression of CDC25 phosphatases splice variants in human breast cancer cells
  106. Fat intake interacts with polymorphisms of Caspase9, FasLigand and PPARgamma apoptotic genes in modulating Crohn’s disease activity
  107. Risk factors for metabolic bone disease in Crohnʼs disease patients
  108. Risk assessment in occupational exposure to formaldehyde: Differences between anatomy and pathology laboratories and formaldehyde-resins production
  109. Gene expression regulation and lineage evolution: the North and South tale of the hybrid polyploid Squalius alburnoides complex
  110. Genotoxic effects in occupational exposure to formaldehyde: A study in anatomy and pathology laboratories and formaldehyde-resins production
  111. Identification of a 0.4 Kb deletion region in 10q26 associated with endometrial carcinoma
  112. Differential expression of GSPT1 GGCn alleles in cancer
  113. Micronuclei in peripheral blood lymphocytes in formaldehyde occupationally exposed workers
  114. Fatty Acids, IL6 and TNFα Polymorphisms: An Example of Nutrigenetics in Crohn's Disease
  115. eRF3a/GSPT1 12-GGC allele increases the susceptibility for breast cancer development
  116. Translation termination and protein folding pathway genes are not correlated in gastric cancer
  117. Risk of colorectal cancer associated with the C677T polymorphism in 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase in Portuguese patients depends on the intake of methyl-donor nutrients
  118. Splenic marginal zone lymphoma – a clinicopathological study in a series of 16 patients
  119. Successful response to rituximab in two cases of acquired haemophilia refractory to standard-therapy
  120. 5' and 3' UTR thymidylate synthase polymorphisms modulate the risk of colorectal cancer independently of the intake of methyl group donors
  121. Polyglycine expansions in eRF3/GSPT1 are associated with gastric cancer susceptibility
  122. Differential expression of the eukaryotic release factor 3 (eRF3/GSPT1) according to gastric cancer histological types
  123. Modulation of translation factor's gene expression by histone deacetylase inhibitors in breast cancer cells
  124. A STR mutation in a heteropaternal twin case
  125. Portuguese population and paternity investigation studies with a multiplex PCR — the AmpFlSTR® Profiler Plus™
  126. Genetic structure of the Iberian chub, Leuciscus pyrenaicus, in the Tejo drainage
  127. Molecular Phylogeny of Cyprinidae Inferred fromcytochrome bDNA Sequences
  128. Phylogenetic Relationships within GenusLeuciscus(Pisces, Cyprinidae) in Portuguese Fresh Waters, Based on Mitochondrial DNA CytochromebSequences
  129. Genetic variation and divergence of Leuciscus pyrenaicus and L. carolitertii (Pisces, Cyprinidae)