O processo sucessório em propriedades de produtores de leite nos municípios de Coronel Xavier Chaves e Silveirânia, em Minas Gerais

O objetivo deste estudo foi identificar os fatores que influenciam a presença de sucessores, em unidades familiares de produção de leite nos Municípios de Coronel Xavier Chaves e Silveirânia, em Minas Gerais. Utilizou-se, como referencial teórico, a influência dos valores tradicionais, e daqueles relacionados com a modernidade, no processo sucessório. Tomou-se, como hipótese, o fato de que o nível tecnológico, o tamanho da propriedade, o acesso ao crédito, a proximidade com o centro urbano e a escolaridade poderiam influenciar a presença do sucessor nas unidades produtoras de leite. Em termos de procedimentos metodológicos, trabalhou-se, nesta pesquisa, com a perspectiva comparativa entre produtores de leite de dois municípios mineiros que apresentavam níveis tecnológicos diferentes, entre si. Utilizou-se o método de levantamento com coleta de dados em campo, por meio da aplicação de 83 questionários semiestruturados a uma amostra de produtores de leite de caráter familiar. Para análise dos dados, utilizaram-se os testes t, qui-quadrado e de regressão. Os resultados não confirmaram a hipótese de que o nível de tecnologia seria fator interveniente no processo sucessório entre produtores de leite, porém se confirmaram as outras quatro hipóteses

Outcomes of pregnancies after kidney transplantation: lessons learned from CKD. A comparison of transplanted, nontransplanted chronic kidney disease patients and low-risk pregnancies: a multicenter nationwide analysis.

BACKGROUND: Kidney transplantation (KT) may restore fertility in CKD. The reasons why materno-foetal outcomes are still inferior to the overall population are only partially known. Comparison with the CKD population may offer some useful insights for management and counselling.Aim of this study was to analyse the outcomes of pregnancy after KT, compared with a large population of non-transplanted CKD patients and with low-risk control pregnancies, observed in Italy the new millennium. METHODS: We selected 121 live-born singletons after KT (Italian study group of kidney in pregnancy, national coverage about 75%), 610 live-born singletons in CKD and 1418 low-risk controls recruited in 2 large Italian Units, in the same period (2000-2014). The following outcomes were considered: maternal and foetal death; malformations; preterm delivery; small for gestational age baby (SGA); need for the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU); doubling of serum creatinine or increase in CKD stage. Data were analysed according to kidney diseases, renal function (staging according to CKD-EPI), hypertension, maternal age, partity, ethnicity. RESULTS: Materno-foetal outcomes are less favourable in CKD and KT as compared with the low-risk population. CKD stage and hypertension are important determinants of results. KT patients with e-GFR >90 have worse outcomes compared with CKD stage 1 patients; the differences level off when only CKD patients affected by glomerulonephritis or systemic diseases ('progressive CKD') are compared with KT. In the multivariate analysis, risk for preterm and early-preterm delivery was linked to CKD stage (2-5 versus 1: RR 3.42 and 3.78) and hypertension (RR 3.68 and 3.16) while no difference was associated with being a KT or a CKD patient. CONCLUSIONS: The materno-foetal outcomes in patients with kidney transplantation are comparable with those of nontransplanted CKD patients with similar levels of kidney function impairment and progressive and/or immunologic kidney diseas

A multi-element psychosocial intervention for early psychosis (GET UP PIANO TRIAL) conducted in a catchment area of 10 million inhabitants: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial

Multi-element interventions for first-episode psychosis (FEP) are promising, but have mostly been conducted in non-epidemiologically representative samples, thereby raising the risk of underestimating the complexities involved in treating FEP in 'real-world' services

Drug sensitivity tests after cell-separation on density gradients

Cells from two leukaemic cell lines (K562 and L1210) were separated on a discontinuous Percoll gradient with densities from 1040 to 1090 by centrifugation. The cells recovered from gradient interfaces were checked for their DNA content and subjected to two different drug sensitivity tests using three cytostatic drugs. The purpose of the study was to compare the sensitivity of a sample of the whole population with that of the fractions thus obtained. Depending on the test used and the line tested, there was a 5.5 to 55.5% discordance between the results for the fractions and the non-separated cells