Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Research

Instagram® has become one of the most widely used social networks by young people worldwide. Studies have shown that the excessive use of the internet can be harmful to the health of users, especially regarding your food choices. The main objective of this analysis was to evaluate the influence of Instagram® and digital content creators on the eating habits of Portuguese university students. Using an online questionnaire through the Google Forms platform, data from 137 participants, aged between 18 and 24 years, studying in Health Sciences and Sports (HSS) or other unrelated areas, was analyzed. It was found that 42.3% of the participants reported following food tips/advice from digital content creators, of whom 53.4% stated that they did not verify the scientific credibility of these recommendations. Moreover, 38% had already adopted diets advertised by these digital content creators, of whom 61.5% reported intending to lose weight. However, 65.6% of the sample reported not achieving the desired results. Finally, when purchasing a food product, 70.1% of the total sample reported taking into consideration the opinion of a nutritionist over that of a digital content creator. In conclusion, students in HSS areas were less influenced by social networks and digital content creators than other students.

Tatiana Fontes

Patrícia Serra-Ferreira

Cíntia Ferreira-Pêgo

Influence of Instagram® and digital content creators on university students’ food choices

Instagram® 和数字内容创作者对大学生食物选择的影响

Patrícia Rijo

Book of Abstracts: 2023 BIO.NATURAL - Bioactive Natural Products Research Meeting

摘要集：2023 BIO.NATURAL - 生物活性天然产物研究会议

40-year-old woman, unemployed. She sought Nutrition Consultation for nutritional control, as she was taking oral anticoagulant therapy. No other pathologies requiring nutritional therapy, but she wanted to lose a little weight. She is followed in the Thrombophilia Consultation for Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) for mutation of the prothrombin gene in heterozygosity. She takes warfarin as an oral anticoagulant, with INR (International Normalized Ratio) control. Keywords: International Normalized Ratio, nutritional intervention, vitamin K, Antiphospholipid Syndrome, warfarin

Bruno Sousa

Antiphospholipid Syndrome (Clinical case)

抗磷脂综合征（临床病例）

Luis Monteiro Rodrigues

This issue in brief (Editorial)

本期简述（社论）

A new development cycle to begin (Editorial)

新发展周期即将开启（社论）

Community and hospital pharmacists are responsible for the correct dispensation of antibiotics and patient counselling. This descriptive study aimed to identify the potentially effective pharmacists’ interventions which improved patients’ antibiotic adherence, based on the findings of a set of studies identified in a previous developed systematic review. Only controlled trials evaluating the impact of pharmaceutical interventions on patient adherence to antibiotics, i.e., intervention group vs. usual care/control group were conveniently selected. These studies were grouped and analyzed based on the distinction between trials with significant vs. non-significant improvements on patients’ adherence to antibiotics. Twenty-one trials were identified, but only 2/3 presented statistically significant results. Diverse pharmaceutical interventions significantly improved patients’ antibiotic adherence, such as structured interventions, the use of visual aids, detailed counseling, written information, call-back phone calls, or the dispensation of personalized doses of antibiotics. Reinforced pharmacist education is likely to be especially relevant in the case of complex therapies (e.g., H. pylori treatment) and/or low literacy patients. In conclusion, structured and/or reinforced pharmaceutical interventions can significantly improve patients’ antibiotic adherence in community or hospital pharmacies, according to some of the analyzed studies.

Carla Pires

Improvement of patients’ antibiotic adherence: a descriptive analysis of pharmacists’ interventions

患者抗生素依从性改善：药师干预的描述性分析

Catarina Rosado

Luís Monteiro Rodrigues

Bernardo Palma

Miguel Remondes

Marina Badenes

Ângela Afonso

Constantinos Athanassopoulos

Catarina Leite

Cíntia Pêgo

Vera Isca

Ana Júlio

Margarida Florindo

Ana Ribeiro

2023 CBIOS Scientific Seminars - Book of Abstracts

2023 CBIOS科学研讨会 - 摘要集

The Neocarya macrophylla plant is used traditionally for food, medicinal, spiritual and industrial purposes. It is also used as a soap, dye, glue, fodder, termite repellent, firewood and for structural materials. Few studies on the physicochemical, nutritional content, phytochemical and pharmacological activities have validated the benefits of N. macrophylla to humanity as a food, in cosmetics or pharmaceutical products. The major bioactive constituents identified in the plant so far are steroids and flavonoids, such as, stigmasterol, quercetin, catechin and its related glycosides, as well as glucosamines. Extracts of the plant have shown good antivenom, antimicrobial, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antimycobacterial, anthelmintic and antioxidant activities. Acute toxicity studies have confirmed the plant to be toxic. More studies on the plant are required in order to exploit other biological activities as claimed by traditional healers and also to isolate more bioactive compounds. In addition, the safety and tolerability assessment of N. macrophylla should be undertaken due to its widespread usage.

Amina Yusuf Jega

Musa Ismail Abdullahi

Abubakar Alhaji Muhammad

Kasimu Ghandi Ibrahim

Hajara Adamu Wasagu

Florencia Z. Brauning

Gabrielle Bangay

Patricia Rijo

Neocarya macrophylla (Chrysobalanaceae): Review of taxonomy, ethnobotany, phytochemistry and biological activities

大叶新木姜子（樟科）：分类学、民族植物学、植物化学及生物活性综述

Publication Information	Publisher: ALIES，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2019，Proportion of original research papers: 0.00%，Self Citation Rate:N.A.， Gold OA Rate: 0.00%
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Influence of Instagram® and digital content creators on university students’ food choices

Book of Abstracts: 2023 BIO.NATURAL - Bioactive Natural Products Research Meeting

Antiphospholipid Syndrome (Clinical case)

This issue in brief (Editorial)

A new development cycle to begin (Editorial)

Influence of Instagram® and digital content creators on university students’ food choices

Book of Abstracts: 2023 BIO.NATURAL - Bioactive Natural Products Research Meeting

Improvement of patients’ antibiotic adherence: a descriptive analysis of pharmacists’ interventions

2023 CBIOS Scientific Seminars - Book of Abstracts

Neocarya macrophylla (Chrysobalanaceae): Review of taxonomy, ethnobotany, phytochemistry and biological activities

ISSN	2182-2360, 2182-2379
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