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