Marcia Scazufca

Publications

• Depressive and subthreshold depressive symptomatology among older adults in a socioeconomically deprived area in Brazil
• Use of WhatsApp by older adults screened for depression in socioeconomically deprived areas of Guarulhos, São Paulo State, Brazil: challenges and possibilities for telehealth
• What works and for whom in treating depression in older adults in deprived communities in Brazil: Findings from a causal mediation analyses of the PROACTIVE trial that overlapped with the COVID-19 pandemic
• Correction to: A collaborative care psychosocial intervention to improve late life depression in socioeconomically deprived areas of Guarulhos, Brazil: the PROACTIVE cluster randomised controlled trial protocol (Trials, (2020), 21, 1, (914), 10.1186/s13063-020-04826-w)
• A century of trends in adult human height
• Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants
• Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
• Identification and treatment of depression of older adults in primary care: Findings from the São Paulo Ageing and Health Study
• Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: A comparative risk assessment
• Prevalence of depression and depression care for populations registered in primary care in two remote cities in the Brazilian Amazon
• From where we came: Absence of internal migration effect on psychosis in two case-control Brazilian samples
• Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight
• Digital psychosocial intervention for depression among older adults in socioeconomically deprived areas in Brazil (PRODIGITAL-D): protocol for an individually randomised controlled trial
• Prefrontal-parietal white matter volumes in healthy elderlies are decreased in proportion to the degree of cardiovascular risk and related to inhibitory control deficits
• Investigating software requirements for systems supporting task-shifted interventions: Usability study
• The relationship between alcohol use and dementia in adults aged more than 60 years: a combined analysis of prospective, individual-participant data from 15 international studies
• Contemporary trends in the epidemiology of traumatic spinal cord injury: Changes in age and etiology
• Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants
• High frequency of silent brain infarcts associated with cognitive deficits in an economically disadvantaged population
• Effects of diabetes definition on global surveillance of diabetes prevalence and diagnosis: A pooled analysis of 96 population-based studies with 331 288 participants
• Prevalence of older adult disability and primary health care responsiveness in low-income communities
• Bone Mineral Density and Parathyroid Hormone as Independent Risk Factors for Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study in Brazil. the São Paulo Ageing & Health (SPAH) Study
• Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol
• Determinants of cognitive performance and decline in 20 diverse ethno-regional groups: A COSMIC collaboration cohort study
• Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants
• Trends in cardiometabolic risk factors in the Americas between 1980 and 2014: A pooled analysis of population-based surveys
• A Validation Study of the EQ-5D-5L and ICEpop Capability Measure for Older People Among Older Individuals With Depressive Symptoms in Brazil
• Corpus callosum volumes in the 5 years following the first-episode of schizophrenia: Effects of antipsychotics, chronicity and maturation
• Age-related cognitive decline and associations with sex, education and apolipoprotein E genotype across ethnocultural groups and geographic regions: a collaborative cohort study
• Evaluation of relationships between presence of adhesio interthalamica and cannabis use in first-episode psychosis: A magnetic resonance imaging investigation
• Public stigma towards older adults with depression: Findings from the São Paulo-Manaus elderly in primary care study
• Does parity matter in women's risk of dementia? A COSMIC collaboration cohort study
• Differences in Total Brain Volume between Sexes in a Cognitively Unimpaired Elderly Population
• Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: A pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants
• What determines continuing grey matter changes in first-episode schizophrenia and affective psychosis?
• Relationship between brain age-related reduction in gray matter and educational attainment
• Psychometric properties of the PHQ-9 measure of depression among Brazilian older adults
• Acceptability and fidelity of a psychosocial intervention (PROACTIVE) for older adults with depression in a basic health unit in São Paulo, Brazil: a qualitative study
• Watching TV and Cognition: The SPAH 2-Year Cohort Study of Older Adults Living in Low-Income Communities
• Evaluation of Sexual Dysfunction in Men With Spinal Cord Injury Using the Male Sexual Quotient
• Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: A pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants
• Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
• Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
• A task-shared, collaborative care psychosocial intervention for improving depressive symptomatology among older adults in a socioeconomically deprived area of Brazil (PROACTIVE): a pragmatic, two-arm, parallel-group, cluster-randomised controlled trial
• Effect of a low-intensity digital intervention on recovery from depression among older adults in Brazil: a randomised clinical trial
• Bayesian networks for feature selection and patient screening for depressive symptomatology: Practical applications of machine learning models (Preprint)
• Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Item Pairing Predictiveness for Prescreening Depressive Symptomatology: Machine Learning Analysis
• Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Item Pairing Predictiveness for Prescreening Depressive Symptomatology: Machine Learning Analysis (Preprint)
• Pilot study of a two-arm non-randomized controlled cluster trial of a psychosocial intervention to improve late life depression in socioeconomically deprived areas of São Paulo, Brazil (PROACTIVE): feasibility study of a psychosocial intervention for late life depression in São Paulo
• A collaborative care psychosocial intervention to improve late life depression in socioeconomically deprived areas of Guarulhos, Brazil: the PROACTIVE cluster randomised controlled trial protocol
• Frequency of symptoms in the last year of life of underprivileged elders in São Paulo: A cross-sectional study with informal caregivers,Frequência de sintomas no último ano de vida de idosos de baixa renda em São Paulo: Estudo transversal com cuidadores informais
• Longitudinal brain volumetric changes during one year in non-elderly healthy adults: A voxel-based morphometry study
• Age-related gray matter volume changes in the brain during non-elderly adulthood
• Neuroanatomical pattern classification in a population-based sample of first-episode schizophrenia
• Osteoporotic Fractures in the Brazilian Community-Dwelling Elderly: Prevalence and Risk Factors
• Voxelwise evaluation of white matter volumes in first-episode psychosis
• The role of literacy, occupation and income in dementia prevention: The São Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH)
• Prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection and carriage after nineteen years of vaccination program in the Western Brazilian Amazon,Prevalência da infecção e de portadores do vírus da hepatite B, após 19 anos do programa de vacinação na Amazônia ocidental Brasileira
• Cannabis use, cognition and brain structure in first-episode psychosis
• Lack of progression of brain abnormalities in first-episode psychosis: A longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study
• A population-based morphometric MRI study in patients with first-episode psychotic bipolar disorder: Comparison with geographically matched healthy controls and major depressive disorder subjects
• Brain activity patterns during phonological verbal fluency performance with varying levels of difficulty: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study in Portuguese-speaking healthy individuals
• Neuroanatomical classification in a population-based sample of psychotic major depression and bipolar i disorder with 1 year of diagnostic stability
• Prevalence of thyroid disorders among older people: Results from the São Paulo Ageing & Health Study,Prevalência de doenças da tireóide em idosos: Resultados do São Paulo Ageing & Health Study
• Family context and duration of untreated psychosis (DUP): Results from the Sao Paulo Study
• Subtle gray matter changes in Temporo-parietal cortex associated with cardiovascular risk factors
• Population impact of depression on functional disability in elderly: Results from "são Paulo Ageing & Health Study" (SPAH)
• BDNF gene polymorphism, cognition and symptom severity in a Brazilian population-based sample of first-episode psychosis subjects
• Volume reduction of the corpus callosum and its relationship with deficits in interhemispheric transfer of information in recent-onset psychosis
• Atrial fibrillation and dementia: Results from the São Paulo ageing & health study
• Cardiovascular risk in cognitively preserved elderlies is associated with glucose hypometabolism in the posterior cingulate cortex and precuneus regardless of brain atrophy and apolipoprotein gene variations
• Serum phosphate and hip bone mineral density as additional factors for high vascular calcification scores in a community-dwelling: The São Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH)
• Prevalence of sarcopenia and associated risk factors by two diagnostic criteria in community-dwelling older men: The São Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH)
• Anemia and dementia among the elderly: The São Paulo Ageing & Health Study
• A practical approach to assess depression risk and to guide risk reduction strategies in later life
• Subclinical hyperthyroidism and dementia: The Sao Paulo ageing & Health study (SPAH)
• Feasibility and reliability of the elderly version of the Camberwell Assessment of Needs (CANE): Results from the São Paulo Ageing & Health Study,Aplicabilidade e confiabilidade da versão para idosos da escala Camberwell de Avaliacão de Necessidades CANE): Resultados do São Paulo ageing & health study
• Cognitive functioning in subjects with recent-onset psychosis from a low-middle-income environment: Multiple-domain deficits and longitudinal evaluation
• Causes of recurrent or persistent anemia in older people from the results of the São Paulo Ageing & Health Study
• Age-related metabolic profiles in cognitively healthy elders: Results from a voxel-based [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose-positron-emission tomography study with partial volume effects correction
• Two-year anemia incidence and causes in older individuals with near-abnormal baseline hemoglobin levels: The São Paulo ageing and health study
• Vertebral fracture assessment by dual X-ray absorptiometry: A valid tool to detect vertebral fractures in community-dwelling older adults in a population-based survey
• The association between depressive disorders and health care utilization: Results from the São Paulo Ageing and Health Study (SPAH)
• Prevalence of common mental disorders and the relationship to the social context: Multilevel analysis of the São Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH),Prevalência de transtornos mentais comuns e contexto social: análise multinível do São Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH),Prevalencia de trastornos mentales comunes y contexto social: análisis multinivel del São Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH)
• Fruit and vegetable intake among low income elderly in the city of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil
• Cognitive performance is related to cortical grey matter volumes in early stages of schizophrenia: A population-based study of first-episode psychosis
• Framingham coronary heart disease risk score can be predicted from structural brain images in elderly subjects
• Corrigendum to "Cannabis use, cognition and brain structure in first-episode psychosis" [Schizophr. Res., 147 (2013), 209-215]
• Lateral ventricle differences between first-episode schizophrenia and first-episode psychotic bipolar disorder: A population-based morphometric MRI study
• Relationship between regional brain volumes and cognitive performance in the healthy aging: An MRI study using voxel-based morphometry
• Brain structural variability due to aging and gender in cognitively healthy elders: Results from the São Paulo ageing and health study
• Education and WHO recommendations for fruit and vegetable intake are associated with better cognitive function in a disadvantaged brazilian elderly population: A population-based cross-sectional study
• Longitudinal follow-up of cavum septum pellucidum and adhesio interthalamica alterations in first-episode psychosis: A population-based MRI study
• Cardiovascular risk factors in patients with first-episode psychosis in São Paulo, Brazil
• Prevalence of fibromyalgia and chronic widespread pain in community-dwelling elderly subjects living in São Paulo, Brazil
• Investigating the role played by social support in the association between religiosity and mental health in low income older adults: Results from the São Paulo ageing & health study (SPAH),Investigando o papel do suporte social na associação entre religiosidade e saúde mental em idosos de baixa renda: Resultados do São Paulo ageing & health study (SPAH)
• Size at birth and mental health problems at 11 years of age in a Brazilian birth cohort,Tamanho ao nascer e problemas de saúde mental aos 11 anos em uma coorte brasileira de nascimentos
• Prevalence and risk factors of radiographic vertebral fracture in Brazilian community-dwelling elderly
• Cardiovascular risk factors associated with migraine among the elderly with a low income: The São Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH)
• Corpus callosum volumes in recent-onset schizophrenia are correlated to positive symptom severity after 1year of follow-up
• Prevalence of electrocardiographic findings in elderly individuals: The Sao Paulo aging & health study,Prevalencia de hallazgos electrocardiográficos en el paciente añoso: Estudio envejecimiento y Salud de São Paulo
• Cognitive therapy,Terapias cognitivas
• Coping strategies in relatives of people with schizophrenia before and after psychiatric admission
• Frontal and anterior cingulate activation during overt verbal fluency in patients with first episode psychosis
• Epidemiological research on dementia in developing countries,Investigações epidemiológicas sobre demência nos países em desenvolvimento
• Grey matter abnormalities in Brazilians with first-episode psychosis
• High prevalence of dementia among older adults from poor socioeconomic backgrounds in São Paulo, Brazil
• Cognitive deficits in first-episode psychosis: A population-based study in São Paulo, Brazil
• Care arrangements for people with dementia in developing countries
• Dementia diagnosis in developing countries: A cross-cultural validation study
• Impact on women who care for those with schizophrenia
• Alzheimer Disease International's 10/66 Dementia Research Group - One model for action research in developing countries
• Identification of dementia cases in the community: A Brazilian experience
• Links between expressed emotion and burden of care in relatives of patients with schizophrenia
• Incidence of first-contact psychosis in São Paulo, Brazil
• Perception of negative emotions in close relatives by patients with schizophrenia
• Risk factors across the life course and dementia in a Brazilian population: Results from the Sao Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH)
• Validity of the self reporting questionnaire-20 in epidemiological studies with older adults: Results from the Sao Paulo Ageing & Health Study
• São Paulo portraits: Ageing in a large metropolis
• Vitamin D insufficiency: A risk factor to vertebral fractures in community-dwelling elderly women
• Caregiver burden in an elderly population with depression in São Paulo, Brazil
• Global prevalence of dementia: A Delphi consensus study
• White-matter hyperintensities in first-episode psychosis
• Stability of expressed emotion in relatives of those with schizophrenia and its relationship with burden of care and perception of patients' social functioning
• The prevalence of headache among elderly in a low-income area of São Paulo, Brazil
• Review of the efficacy of psychotherapy vs. pharmacotherapy for depression treatment in old age,Revisão sobre a eficácia de psicoterapia vs. farmacoterapia no tratamento de depressão em idosos
• Limitations of the Mini-mental state examination for screening dementia in a community with low socioeconomic status : RResults from the Sao Paulo Ageing& health study
• Effects of education and culture on the validity of the Geriatric Mental State and its AGECAT algorithm
• Methods for estimating prevalence ratios in cross-sectional studies,Métodos para estimar razão de prevalência em estudos de corte transversal
• Household crowding and compliance with outpatient treatment in patients with non-affective functional psychoses in Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Reliability of the Brazilian version of the Camberwell Assessment of Needs (CAN) in first-episode psychosis cases in São Paulo, Brazil
• Self-help mobile messaging intervention for depression among older adults in resource-limited settings: a randomized controlled trial
• Bayesian networks for feature selection and patient pre-screening for depressive symptomatology: a prototype (Preprint)
• Bayesian Networks for Prescreening in Depression: Algorithm Development and Validation (Preprint)