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Focus: Child and Adolescent Disabilities and Care
Studies on clinical situations that require highly complex diagnostic and / or therapeutic procedures, developed in a hospital environment in the areas of oncology, nephrology and pediatric intensive care and hematology, besides establishing the prevalence, risk factors associated with its expression.
Focus: Physiology and Disorders of Digestive Tract.
Studies of the digestive tract, including digestive-absorptive abnormalities, motility disorders, Helicobacter pylori infection, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in endoscopy, diarrhea and malnutrition, infections, inflammatory bowel diseases and liver diseases.
Focus: Physiology, epidemiology of respiratory, allergic, immunological and inflammatory conditions
Study on the pulmonary development of infants, children and adolescents as well as the interference of respiratory affections on parameters of pulmonary function, clinical expression and therapeutic schemes. Studies on allergic processes, immunological deficiencies and rheumatic diseases are or are not of the autoimmune regimen.
Focus: Physiology, epidemiology of nutritional, hormonal and metabolic disorders
Studies on dietary and nutritional physiology, nutritional and mineral status, effects of nutritional disorders on human systems and tissues and experimental models, metabolic changes associated with renal function disorders and inborn errors of metabolism. Experimental, clinical and population research projects aiming to generate knowledge for the best care of nutritional disorders in childhood, regarding etiology, diagnosis and prognosis.
Focus: Normal and pathological Growth and Development
Studies on growth and development in childhood and adolescence, including hormonal and metabolic disorders and risk factors in adolescence. Evaluation of services, programs and actions aimed at comprehensive health care for children and adolescents, with emphasis on basic health care.