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Telemonitoring in hypertensive patients with exercise prescription is at the origin of an innovative project and article with international recognition 

8 June 2022

Pedro Morouço, researcher of ciTechCare, together with other physical exercise professionals, published a systematic review about the impact telemonitoring has on hypertension control. Hypertension is a growing problem in daily society, and specialists expected that all over the Europe, around 35 to 40% of population is hypertensive and, in Portugal, the prevalence of hypertensive adults is around 42,6%. The systematic review resulted in the analysis of 19 eligible articles and the conclusion was that physical exercise really contributes to the control of hypertension and on people with co-morbidities, like heart failure, improve their functional resistance. According to Pedro Morouço, “the

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Opening of call for a doctoral researcher

7 June 2022

Polytechnic of Leiria (IPL) opened an international public tender for a doctoral researcher position in the area of Food and Nutrition Science and Technology or in Pharmaceutical Technology or in related areas for an employment contract in public functions with a fixed term for a period of three years, automatically renewable for periods of one year up to the maximum duration of six years, in order to develop investigation activities in the project field. Work will be developed in ciTechCare, Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology, or in other suitable location of Polytechnic of Leiria. Applications are opened until June

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Clinical Simulation as a learning tool in the nursing teaching model

2 June 2022

Nursing education has been modified as far as the teaching model is concerned. Clinical Simulation reveals an exponential growth, replacing part of the time allocated to internships.  Hugo Duarte, professor, nurse and ciTechCare researcher in nursing field highlights that this pedagogic dimension constitutes “a tool that enables the integration and consolidation of theoretical knowledge with clinical practice, developing technical and non-technical competencies within the nursing students community”.  The Healthcare Simulation Laboratory, located in the ciTechCare, provides practical sessions, through artificial healthcare scenarios similar to realistic clinical contexts, which helps students to have a training focused in “reducing response time”, “improving emotional

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CHL Pneumology Service and ciTechCare: a positive appraisal after 6 months of collaboration

31 May 2022

“There is a very close relationship to the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, especially in the figure of ciTechCare” Salvato Feijó, Director of Pneumology Service at CHL Since December 2021 that the protocol between Hospital Center of Leiria (CHL) and Politécnico of Leiria (IPL) enables the performance of cardiopulmonary stress test, contributing to the extension of the pneumology and cardiology services competencies.   In an interview with Hospital Público, Salvato Feijó, Director of the Pneumology Service at Centro Hospitalar de Leiria (CHL), recognize that from the service genesis, in 2015, has been registered an increase of the responsiveness, not only in terms of training

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ciTechCare in the 25th anniversary of the Foundation for Science and Technology

26 May 2022

Foundation for science and technology celebrated 25 years gathering specialized researchers from several areas between last May 16 and 18. Roberta Frontini and Raúl Antunes, ciTechCare researchers, participated in the ‘Meeting with Science and Technology in Portugal’, presenting the oral communication entitled “We play together, We all play” – a pilot project for promoting inclusion through sport. Both researchers also presented the poster “Mental Health Promotion and physical activity in COVID-19 pandemic context: working in multidisciplinarity”.

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What is the role of carotid bodies as a biomarker in prediabetes?

24 May 2022

Maria Guarino and Marlene Lages co-author the book chapter “Carotid Bodies: Use of Chemosensitivity as a Biomarker in Prediabetes” which is included in the “Biomarkers in Disease: Methods, Discoveries and Applications” book series from Springer. This one is a full chapter dedicated to the role of carotid bodies (CB) as metabolic sensors and the relevance of the overactivation of these organs in the development of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes (T2D). The authors claim that it is possible to understand carotid body activity by measuring a set of physiological variables, allowing to identify people with subclinical alterations associated with the development of

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