Fernando Adami

Biographic Data

ID209925
NAMEFernando Adami
GIVEN NAMESFernando
FAMILY NAMEAdami
SIGNATUREADAMI F
AFFILIATIONSFaculdade de Medicina do ABC
ORCID0000-0003-1918-3364
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS35
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Análise da viabilidade neonatal no Brasil no período 2012-2019

    Open AccessTaynah Putty Luis, Fernando Adami et al.ARTICLERevista Brasileira de Estudos de…2025

    Esse estudo avalia a viabilidade de recém-nascidos prematuros, no Brasil, de 2012 a 2019. Trata-se de um estudo observacional, ecológico, de base populacional. A amostra foi composta por recém-nascidos com 22 a 31 semanas de idade gestacional, registrados no Sinasc no período estudado. Para avaliação da viabilidade foi utilizada a associação com a base do SIM. Aplicou-se o método de linkage para associação entre fatores de mortalidade e assistênc…

  • Impact of income inequality on breast cancer mortality according to socioeconomic status in the Federative Units of Brazil

    Open AccessKatia Pereira Tomaz, Samantha Hasegawa Farias et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    DATA REPORT article Front. Public Health, 28 September 2022Sec. Health Economics Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.972204

  • Assessment of the median ages at sexual maturation stages of Brazilian schoolchildren according to overweight status and type of school over a 5‐year period

    Open AccessLuísa Harumi Matsuo, Fernando Adami et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2022

    OBJECTIVES: A secular trend of earlier puberty has been observed in girls, and, although more uncertain in boys, is associated with an increasing trend in the prevalence of overweight and obesity. We aimed to compare the median ages of sexual maturation stages in schoolchildren from a city in southern Brazil over a 5-year period, according to weight status and type of school. METHODS: Two cross-sectional studies were performed in 2007 and 2012/20…

  • Temporal Trend of the Prevalence of Modifiable Risk Factors of Stroke

    Open AccessLaércio da Silva Paiva, Luiz Vinicius de Alcantara Sousa et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Stroke is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, including in Brazil. This study aimed to analyze the temporal trend of the prevalence of modifiable risk factors of stroke from 2006 to 2012. This ecological study was conducted by secondary analysis in May 2018, using data from the surveillance of risk factors and protection for chronic diseases by telephone inquiry (VIGITEL) available in the Department of Informatics of the Unified Health …

  • Physical inactivity level and lipid profile in traditional communities in the Legal Amazon

    Open AccessErika Da Silva Maciel, Bhárbara Karolline Rodrigues Silva et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    On the vulnerable populations studied, the insufficiently active or sedentary individuals (called the physical inactivity individuals) have more risk of the altered HDL-C

  • Collision of Fundamental Human Rights and the Right to Health Access During the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic

    Open AccessJosé Luiz Gondim dos Santos, Paulo André Stein Messetti et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Introduction: COVID-19 requires governmental measures to protect healthcare system access for people. In this process, the collision of fundamental rights emerges as a crucial challenge for decision-making. Policy Options and Implications: This policy review analyzes selected articles by the PubMed searcher about extreme measures taken in several countries during precedent pandemics and the current pandemic, and selects hard decisions relating to…

  • Are the Temporal Trends of Stomach Cancer Mortality in Brazil Similar to the Low, Middle, and High-Income Countries

    Open AccessSamantha Hasegawa Farias, Wilson Leite Maia Neto et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    DATA REPORT article Front. Public Health, 29 June 2021Sec. Life-Course Epidemiology and Social Inequalities in Health https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.677012

  • Inequalities in Mortality and Access to Hospital Care for Cervical Cancer—An Ecological Study

    Open AccessLuiz Vinicius de Alcantara Sousa, Erika Da Silva Maciel et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Cervical cancer is the second most common form of cancer in the world among women, and it is estimated to be the third most frequent cancer in Brazil, as well as the fourth leading cause of death from cancer. There is a difference in cervical cancer mortality rates among different administrative regions in Brazil along with an inadequate distribution of cancer centers in certain Brazilian regions. Herein, we analyze the trends in hospital admissi…

  • Perinatal Mortality Analysis in Espírito Santo, Brazil, 2008 to 2017

    Open AccessItalla Maria Pinheiro Bezerra, José Lucas Souza Ramos et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    This is an ecological and time-series study using secondary data on perinatal mortality and its components from 2008 to 2017 in Espírito Santo, Brazil. The data were collected from the Mortality Information System (SIM) and Live Births Information System (SINASC) of the Unified Health System Informatics Department (DATASUS) in June 2019. The perinatal mortality rate (×1000 total births) was calculated. Time series were constructed from the perina…

  • Brazilian National Policy of Comprehensive Women’s Health Care and mortality during climacteric period

    Open AccessIsabel Cristina Esposito Sorpreso, Francisco Winter Dos Santos Figueiredo et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    After implementation of the PNAISM, we observed a downward trend in rates of mortality from diseases of the circulatory and digestive systems and from endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases but stability in the rates of death from neoplasm and respiratory system diseases

  • Waiting Time between Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment in Brazilian Women

    Open AccessNaidhia Alves Soares Ferreira, Jean M Hébert et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Brazilian law requires that treatment for breast cancer begin within 60 days of diagnosis. This waiting time is an indicator of accessibility to health services. The aim of this study was to analyze which factors are associated with waiting times between diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer in women in Brazil between 1998 and 2012. Information from Brazilian women diagnosed with breast cancer between 1998 and 2012 was collected through the Ho…

  • The sensitivity, specificity, and agreement of a point of care method

    Open AccessErika Da Silva Maciel, Fernando Rodrigues Peixoto Quaresma et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2019

    The use of new technologies can improve screening in communities with difficult access to health. This article aims to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity, and agreement of a point of care test in comparison to laboratory methods for the determination of glucose (GLI), triglyceride (TG), and total cholesterol (TC) concentrations. This prospective study used data from the remaining adult population of quilombolas in Brazil. Laboratory tests usin…

  • Quality of Life of Post-Mastectomy Women Living in a Semi-Arid Region of Brazil

    Open AccessEmídio Antonio de Araújo Neto, Beatriz da Costa Aguiar Alves et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2017

    Health is the major reference regarding quality of life; when it comes to breast cancer in particular, the loss of a breast traumatically affects a woman's life, reflecting on her quality of life. Recognizing this problem, our aim was to investigate the quality of life of women who live in a semi-arid region of Brazil after breast cancer mastectomy. In this exploratory, transversal and observational study, a Brazilian variantof the shorter versio…

  • Prevalence of active transportation among adults in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Open AccessThiago Hérick De Sá, Leandro Fórnias Machado De Rezende et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2017

    Objective. To describe the prevalence of “active” (self-propelled, human-powered) transportation in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region over the past decade. Methods. MEDLINE, Excerpta Medica (Embase), SportDiscus, Lilacs, MediCarib, Web of Science, OVID, CINAHL, Scopus, Google Scholar, National Transportation Library, and TRIS/TRID were searched for articles on active transportation published between January 2003 and December 2014 with …

  • Access to health services by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons

    Open AccessGrayce Alencar Albuquerque, Cíntia De Lima Garcia et al.ARTICLEBMC International Health and…2016

  • Effect of the elimination of chronic diseases on disability-free life expectancy among elderly individuals in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2010

    Open AccessAlessandro Gonçalves Campolina, Fernando Adami et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2014

    The scope of this study was to establish whether the elimination of certain chronic diseases is capable of leading to the compression of morbidity among elderly individuals in Sao Paulo (Brazil), 2010. A population-based, cross-sectional study was carried out with official data for the city of Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 2010 and data from the SABE (Health, Wellbeing and Ageing) study. A total of 907 elderly individuals were evaluated, 640 of whom were…

  • Effect of eliminating chronic diseases among elderly individuals

    Open AccessAlessandro Gonçalves Campolina, Fernando Adami et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2013References: 22

    OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the elimination of certain chronic diseases is capable of leading to the compression of morbidity among elderly individuals.METHODS: A population-based, cross-sectional study was carried out with official data for the city of Sao Paulo, Southeastern Brazil in 2000 and data from the SABE (Health, Wellbeing and Ageing) study. Sullivan's method was used to calculate disability-free life expectancy. Cause-deleted life …

  • Estudo de validade do questionário "Lista de Atividades Físicas" em crianças

    Open AccessFernando Adami, Denise Pimentel Bergamaschi et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2013References: 24

    OBJETIVO: Avaliar a validade concorrente e a equivalência operacional do questionário "Lista de Atividades Físicas" em crianças.MÉTODOS: O estudo complementa o processo de adaptação transcultural do Physical Activity Checklist Interview. Participaram 118 escolares de sete a dez anos matriculados do segundo ao quinto ano do ensino fundamental de São Paulo, SP, em 2009. Foram quantificados o tempo de engajamento em atividades físicas moderadas a vi…

  • Homossexualidade e o direito à saúde

    Open AccessGrayce Alencar Albuquerque, Cíntia De Lima Garcia et al.ARTICLESaúde em Debate2013Cited by: 15References: 8

    Objetivou-se evidenciar a atuação das políticas públicas direcionadas à saúde da população homossexual brasileira. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa da literatura, realizada na Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SciELO) e na Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (Lilacs), utilizando os Decs: políticas públicas, assistência integral à saúde e homossexualidade. A saúde LGBT é apontada como vulnerável mesmo após a publicaç…

  • A transição de saúde e as mudanças na expectativa de vida saudável da população idosa

    Open AccessAlessandro Gonçalves Campolina, Fernando Adami et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2013Cited by: 14References: 31

    O objetivo foi avaliar o impacto da eliminação das doenças crônicas sobre a expectativa de vida livre de incapacidade da população idosa. Estudo transversal, de base populacional, utilizando dados oficiais secundários para o Município de São Paulo, Brasil, em 2000, e dados obtidos do Estudo SABE. Tábuas de vida de eliminação de causas foram utilizadas para calcular as probabilidades de morte com a eliminação de doenças. As enfermidades eliminadas…

  • Understanding the correlates of adolescents’ dietary intake patterns. A multivariate analysis

    Open AccessAugusto César Ferreira De Moraes, Fernando Adami et al.ARTICLEAppetite2012Cited by: 3References: 32

  • Confiabilidade do questionário Lista de Atividades Físicas em crianças

    Open AccessFernando Adami, Fernanda Cruciani et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2011Cited by: 1References: 22

    OBJETIVO: Avaliar a confiabilidade do questionário Lista de Atividades Físicas em crianças. MÉTODOS: O estudo é parte da adaptação transcultural do questionário, realizado com 83 escolares de sete a dez anos, matriculados do segundo ao quinto ano do ensino fundamental da cidade de São Paulo, SP, em 2008. O questionário foi respondido pela criança por meio de entrevista individual, apresenta lista com 21 atividades físicas moderadas a vigorosas re…

  • Equivalência conceitual, de itens e semântica do Physical Activity Checklist Interview (Paci)

    Open AccessFernanda Cruciani, Fernando Adami et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2011Cited by: 2References: 17

    Há lacuna de questionários de atividade física para crianças brasileiras. O Physical Activity Checklist Interview (PACI), desenvolvido em crianças americanas, permite aferir atividade física do dia anterior. Constituem objetivos do estudo: (i) descrever os procedimentos envolvidos na escolha do PACI a ser submetido à adaptação transcultural; (ii) avaliar equivalências conceitual, de itens e semântica da versão adaptada para uso em crianças de 7 a…

  • Childhood and adolescent obesity and adult mortality

    Open AccessFernando Adami, Francisco De Assis Guedes De VasconcelosARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2008

    This systematic review addressed cohort studies on obesity in childhood and adolescence and adult mortality, published from January 1990 to March 2007. We searched the PubMed database with the following uniterms: obesity, mortality, child, adolescent; obesity and mortality; overweight and mortality. References were also analyzed. The age limit was 2 to 18 years. Quality of the articles was assessed, and eight were identified and reviewed. All use…