Prof. Carlos De Bragança Pereira

The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of low-back pain (LBP) and to identify the level of functional disability in elderly individuals in different populations. From January 1985 to October 2018, a search was performed using the following databases: Embase, LILACS, SciELO, Scopus, Medline, and the Web of Science. The descriptors were low-back pain, back pain, lower-back pain, prevalence, and elderly in Portuguese and English. Two independent reviewers conducted a search for studies and evaluated their methodological quality. The search strategy returned 2186 titles, and 35 were included in this review. The studies evaluated 135,059 elderly individuals aged between 60 and 102 years, and the prevalence of LBP ranged from 21% to 75%. The levels of functional disability, as well as functional difficulties, activities of daily living, and physical capacity, were identified in 60% of the studies. This review indicated a high prevalence of LBP in elderly individuals and functional disability that affects factors important for independence. However, the studies used different methodologies, suggesting that more studies be conducted with scientific accuracy, methodological quality, and low risk of bias to contribute to the proposal of preventive actions for elderly populations.

1 March 2006 in Journal of Vascular Surgery

Journal Article

Meta-analysis of popliteal-to-distal vein bypass grafts for critical ischemia

Maximiano Albers

Marcello Romiti

Francisco Cardoso Brochado-Neto

Nelson De Luccia

Carlos De Bragança Pereira

25 October 1999 in Entropy

Journal Article

Evidence and Credibility: Full Bayesian Significance Test for Precise Hypotheses

Carlos De Bragança Pereira

Julio Michael Stern

A Bayesian measure of evidence for precise hypotheses is presented. The intention is to give a Bayesian alternative to significance tests or, equivalently, to p-values. In fact, a set is defined in the parameter space and the posterior probability, its credibility, is evaluated. This set is the "Highest Posterior Density Region" that is "tangent" to the set that defines the null hypothesis. Our measure of evidence is the complement of the credibility of the "tangent" region.

About Me

Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira was born in 1946 in the city of Rio de Janeiro and holds a degree in Statistics (1968) from the National School of Statistical Sciences (ence). During his graduation, he was a teaching monitor at the Public Health Teaching Foundation, Oswaldo Cruz Institute. Shortly thereafter, in May 1969, he began his teaching career at the University of São Paulo (usp) as an auxiliary teacher at the former Faculty of Philosophy. With the creation (1970) of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (ime) he was transferred to the statistical department of the new institute. He obtained his master's degree in Statistics in 1971 from the ime-usp and became an assistant professor. Started (1977) his PhD program in Tallahassee at Florida State University (fsu) and earned (1980) the PhD degree under the supervision of the honorable Professor Dev Basu. He went through all levels of his teaching career, becoming a Full Professor in 1990. In this interim, after becoming an assistant-doctor, he defended his thesis of “Free Teacher” in 1984, becoming an associate professor and in 1989 obtained the position of adjoining professor: In summary; auxiliary in 1969, assistant in 1971, assistant-doctor in 1981, associate in 1984, adjoining in 1989 and full in 1990. In 2016 he retired, becoming a senior lecturer at usp and from June 2018 to May 2020 joined, as a visiting professor, the University of Mato Grosso do Sul (ufms).

Prof. Carlos De Bragança Pereira

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