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Name: Vera Mónica Almeida Afreixo Nationality: Portuguese Email: vera_at_ua.pt
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List of PublicationsThesis and dissertations
Monographs
Some publications1.
Ana Helena
Tavares, Jakob Raymaekers, Peter Rousseeuw, Paula Brito and Vera Afreixo
“Clustering genomic words in human DNA using peaks and trends of distributions”
Statistics and Computing https://doi.org/10.1007/s11634-019-00362-x 2.
Afreixo V,
Cruz S, Freitas A, Hernandez (2019) M. Meta-Analysis of a Very Low Proportion
Through Adjusted Wald Confidence Intervals. Open Access Biostatistics &
Bioinformatics 2(4). OABB.000545.2019. https://doi.org/10.31031/OABB.2019.02.000545 3.
Antunes, P., Esteves, D., Nunes,
C., Amarelo, A., Fonseca-Moutinho, J., Afreixo, V., ... & Joaquim, A. (2019). Effects of physical
exercise on outcomes of cardiac (dys) function in women with breast cancer
undergoing anthracycline or trastuzumab treatment: study protocol for a
systematic review. Systematic Reviews, 8(1), 239. 4.
Craveiro, Nuno; Lopes, Bruno;
Tomás, Lara; Fraga, Sofia; Palma, Helena; Afreixo, Vera; Costa-Matos, Luis;
Tondela-Viseu Hospital Centre, Internal MedicineL-TRUST: Long-term risk of
cancer in patients under statins therapy. A systematic review and meta-analysis (2019) Pharmacoepidemiology and
Drug Safety 28(11) 1431-1439 DOI: 10.1002/pds.4895 5.
Cláudia Mello Ribeiro, PhD;
Isabela Ribeiro Soares; Rodrigo Guerrero Mendes; Paula Andrea de Santis Bastos;
Satie Katagiri; Renato Bacarin Zavilenski; Hudson Felipe Porto de Abreu; Vera
Afreixo (2019) “Meta-analysis of
the prevalence and risk factors associated with bovine neosporosis” Tropical Animal Health
and ProductionSeptember, 51(7), 1783–1800. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-019-01929-8 6.
Carlos A. C. Bastos, Vera Afreixo,
João M.O.S. Rodrigues, Armando J. Pinho, Raquel M. Silva (2019) “Distribution
of distances between symmetric words in the human genome: Analysis of regular
peaks” Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences 11, 367-372. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12539-019-00326-x 7.
Luís Cabral, Vera
Afreixo, Rita Meireles, Miguel Vaz, João Frade, Catarina Chaves, Marisa
Caetano, Luís Almeida, José Artur Paiva (2019) “Evaluation of procalcitonin
accuracy for the distinction between Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacterial
sepsis in burn patients”. Journal of Burn Care & Research 40(1),
112-119. https://doi.org/10.1093/jbcr/iry058
8.
Ana
Oliveira, Vera Afreixo, Alda Marques (2018) “Enhancing our understanding of the
time course of acute exacerbations of COPD managed on an outpatient basis”
International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 13 3759–3766 https://doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S175890 9.
Cátia Leitão, Paulo Antunes, Vera
Afreixo, Paulo André, J. Lemos Pinto, Raquel Fernandes, Marco Costa, J.
Mesquita Bastos (2018) “Clinical evaluation of an optical fiber-based probe for
the assessment of central arterial pulse waves”. Journal of the Hypertension Research 41, 904-912 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41440-018-0089-2
10. José Martins, Vera Afreixo, Luís Santos, Marco
Costa, José Santos, Lino Gonçalves (2018) “Medical treatment or
revascularization as the best approach for spontaneous coronary artery
dissection: a meta-analysis”. European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care.
7(7), 614-623 https://doi.org/10.1177/2048872617706502
11. José Martins, Vera Afreixo, Luís Santos, Marco Costa, José Santos, Lino
Gonçalves (2018) “Fractional flow reserve-guided strategy in acute coronary
syndrome. Is deferring
revascularization in acute coronary syndrome patients as safe as in non-acute
coronary syndrome patients? A systematic review and
meta-analysis”. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia. 11(4) 542-550 http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/abc.20180170
12. Luís Cabral, Vera Afreixo, Rita Meireles,
Miguel Vaz, Catarina Chaves, Marisa Caetano, Luís Almeida, José Artur Paiva
(2018) “Procalcitonin kinetics after burn injury and burn surgery in septic and
non-septic patients – a retrospective observational study.” BMC Anesthesiology
18(122) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12871-018-0585-6 13. Martins, J. L., Adrega, T., Santos, L., Afreixo, V., Viana, J., &
Santos, J. (2018). Are football matches dangerous for patients with heart
disease? [HeartAtaque trial] – A pilot prospective trial, Jogos de futebol
impróprios para cardíacos (HeartAtaque trial) – Estudo piloto prospetivo.
Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia. 37(8) 645-653 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.repc.2017.09.024 14. Claudia Ribeiro, Lenita Stefani, Simone Lucheis, Juliano Cezar Cruz,
Thais Casagrande, Guilherme Souza, Werner Okano, Paula Andrea Bastos, Rafael
Pinheiro, Mauro Arruda, Vera Afreixo (2018). “Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in poultry and poultry
meat: A meta-analysis” Journal of Food Protection 81(7), 1055-1062. https://doi.org/10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-17-445 15. Catarina S. Oliveira, Leonor Rocha, Sónia Almeida, Marta Mesquita,
Andreia Teixeira Martins, Vera Afreixo, Raquel Zenha, Joana Amorim, Maria
Manuel Flores (2018). “Bronquiolite aguda, o que mudou depois da norma de
orientação clínica?” Ecos do Minho 13(13), 5-14. ISNN 1646-4745. 16. Luis Cabral, Vera Afreixo, Filipe Santos, Luís Almeida, José Artur
Paiva (2018). “Response to Letter
to the Editor: “Comments on procalcitonin for the early diagnosis of sepsis in
burn patients: A retrospective study”. Burns 44(4), 1017-1018.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2017.12.006 17. Ana Helena Tavares, Jakob Raymaekers, Peter J. Rousseeuw, Raquel M.
Silva, Carlos A. C. Bastos, Armando Pinho, Paula Brito, Vera Afreixo (2018). “Comparing reversed complement genomic words
based on their distance distributions and frequencies”. Interdisciplinary
Sciences: Computational Life Sciences journal 10(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12539-017-0273-0
18. Luís Cabral, Vera Afreixo, Miguel Vaz, Catarina Chaves, Marisa Caetano,
Luís Almeida, José Artur Paiva (2018). “Checking procalcitonin suitability for prognosis and antimicrobial
therapy monitoring in burn patients”. Burns & Trauma
6(1), 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41038-018-0112-5 19. Raquel Diaz, Vera Afreixo, Elmano Ramalheira, Carmen Rodrigues, Bruno
Gago (2018). “Evaluation of
vancomycin MIC Creep in Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections
– a systematic review and meta-analysis”. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 24
(2) , 97-104 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2017.06.017 20. Raquel Diaz, Elmano Ramalheira, Vera Afreixo, Bruno Gago (2018). “Rapid screening of methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus carrying the mecC gene in a Portuguese hospital”. Annals
of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (APALM) 5(1) A66-69. ISSN 2349-6983 DOI:
10.21276/APALM.1666 21. Sara Escudeiro, Adelaide Freitas & Vera
Afreixo (2017) Approximate confidence intervals for a linear combination of
binomial proportions: A new variant. Communications in Statistics - Simulation
and Computation, 46:9, 7501-7524. 22. Cabral L, Afreixo V, Santos F, Almeida L, Paiva JA (2017). “Can procalcitonin be used for the early
diagnosis of sepsis in burn patients? A retrospective study”. Burns, 43 (7) 1427-1434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2017.03.026 23. Raquel Diaz, Elmano Ramalheira, Vera Afreixo, Bruno Gago (2017). “Evaluation of vancomycin MIC Creep in
Staphylococcus aureus infections”. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance 10
281–284 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2017.04.007 24. Ana Oliveira, Ipek Sem, Yasemin P. Kahya, Vera Afreixo, Alda Marques (2017).
“Computerised respiratory sounds
can differentiate smokers and non- smokers”. Journal of Clinical Monitoring and
Computing. 31(3), 571-580. DOI 10.1007/s10877-016-9887-8 25. Ana H. M. P. Tavares, Armando J. Pinho, Raquel M. Silva, João M. O. S.
Rodrigues, Carlos A. C. Bastos, Paulo J. S. G. Ferreira, Vera Afreixo. “DNA word analysis based on the distribution of
the distances between symmetric words”. Scientific Report
2017, 7 (728) doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00646-2 26. Vera Afreixo, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Carlos A. C. Bastos, Ana H. M.
P. Tavares, Raquel M. Silva, “Exceptional symmetry by genomic word: A Statistical Analysis”.
Interdisciplinary Sciences, Computational Life Sciences. 2017 Mar, 9(1):14-23
DOI:
10.1007/s12539-016-0200-9. 27. Ana Oliveira, Ângela Monteiro, Cristina Jácome, Vera Afreixo, Alda
Marques. “Effects of group sports
on health-related physical fitness of overweight youth: A systematic review and
meta-analysis”. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 2017
Jun 27(6): 604-611. https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.12784. 28. Cabral, L., Afreixo, V., Almeida, L., & Paiva, J. A.. “The Use of Procalcitonin (PCT) for Diagnosis
of Sepsis in Burn Patients: A Meta-Analysis.” PloS one, 2016
11(12), e0168475. 29. José Carlos Lopes, Sandra Vilarinho, Vera Afreixo, Luís Almeida, Francisco
Luís Pimentel. Mindfulness-Based
Intervention in Cancer Recovery: A Pilot Feasibility Study in a Portuguese
Sample. International Jornal of Clinical Neuroscienes and Mental Health 2016;
3:4. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21035/ijcnmh.2016.3.4 30. Paulo, A., Costa, J. D., Pipa, A., Andrade, C.,
Afreixo, V. “Pain, anxiety and patient satisfaction in office hysteroscopy, is
there a link? Are patient satisfaction questionnaires reliable?”. International
Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2016 Mar, 5(3):642-650. http://www.ijrcog.org/index.php/ijrcog/article/view/715.
31. Vera Afreixo, João M. O. S. Rodrigues and Carlos A. C. Bastos. “The exceptional genomic word symmetry along
DNA sequences” BMC Bioinformatics 2016 17(1) 59 DOI 10.1186/s12859-016-0905-0 issn: 1471-2105 32. Raquel Diaz, Vera Afreixo, Helmano Ramalheira and Bruno Gago. “Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
carrying the new mecC gene – a meta-analysis”. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious
Disease. 2016 Feb, 84: 135–140. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.10.014
33. Antonio A. Paulo, José Damasceno-Costa, Antonio
Pipa, Vera M. Afreixo “Hysteroscopy and pain: what risk factors should we
consider in office hysteroscopy? Are there really any?” International Journal
of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2016 Jan, 5(1):74-79. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20151604 34. António Paulo, M.H. Solheiro, C. Paulo and Vera Afreixo. “What proportion of women refer moderate to
severe pain during Office Hysteroscopy with a mini-hysteroscope? A systematic
review and meta-analysis.” Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 2016 Jan;
293(1):37-46 DOI 10.1007/s00404-015-3836-5. 35. Antonio Paulo, João Mairos, Patrícia Di Martino, Maria Helena Solheiro,
Vera Afreixo. Office Hysteroscopy
and pain control, a multicenter comparison by scope size and introducing a
novel “hysteroscopic anesthesia” technique. Clinical Obstetrics, Gynecology and
Reproductive Medicine Journal 2015 1(4): 99-103. doi: 10.15761/COGRM.1000125 36. Anabela G. Silva, Filipa M.B. Lã, Vera Afreixo. “Pain prevalence in instrumentalist musicians:
a systematic review”. Journal Medical Problems of Performing Artists 2015 Mar; 30(1): 8-19. 37. Vera Afreixo, João M.O.S. Rodrigues
and Carlos A. C. Bastos. “Analysis of single-strand exceptional word symmetry
in the human genome: new measures”. Biostatistics 2015 Apr; 16(2): 209-21, DOI:
10.1093/biostatistics/kxu041. 38. Ferreira-Fernandes, Sara L.C.
Esteves, Luís Korrodi-Gregório, Georg Luers, Vera Afreixo, Margarida Fardilha,
Odete A.B. da Cruz e Silva. “Synphilin-1A is a phosphoprotein phosphatase 1-interacting
protein and affects PPP1 sorting to subcellular compartments”. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience 2015,
Volume 55, Issue 2, pp 385-395. DOI: 10.1007/s12031-014-0343-2 39. Varum, Celeste, Santos, Eduarda and Afreixo, Vera
“Recent trends and new evidence in economic literacy among adults”. Journal of
Economics and Economic Education Research. Vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 187-206. 2014. Print
ISSN: 1533-3604 40. Vera Afreixo, João M. O. S. Rodrigues and Carlos A. C. Bastos. “Exceptional single strand DNA word symmetry:
analysis of evolutionary potentialities”. Journal of Integrative
Bioinformatics. vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 1-12. 2014. DOI: 10.2390/biecoll-jib-2014-250 41. Adelaide Freitas, Vera Afreixo, Sara Escudeiro Cruz. “Mixture models of geometric 42. Carlos A. C. Bastos, Vera Afreixo, Sara P. Garcia and Armando J. Pinho.
“Inter-STOP symbol distances for
the identification coding of regions”. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics. vol.
10, no. 3, p 1-9, 2013. doi:10.2390/biecoll-jib-2013-230 (nov) 43. Vera Afreixo, Sara P. Garcia, João M. O. S. Rodrigues. “The breakdown of symmetry in word pairs in
1,092 human genomes”. Jurnal Teknologi. vol. 63, no. 3, p. 1-8, 2013. DOI:
10.11113/jt.v63.1946 (apr) http://www.jurnalteknologi.utm.my/index.php/jurnalteknologi/article/view/1946 44. Sara P. Garcia, João M.O.S. Rodrigues, Sérgio Santos, Diogo Pratas,
Vera Afreixo, Carlos A.C. Bastos, Paulo J.S.G. Ferreira, and Armando J. Pinho. “A genomic distance for assembly comparison
based on compressed maximal exact matches”. IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 793-798, 2013. doi: 10.1109/TCBB.2013.77 (nov) 45. Vera Afreixo, Carlos Bastos, Sara Garcia, João Rodrigues, Armando Pinho
and Paulo Ferreira. “The breakdown
of the word symmetry in the human genome”. Journal of theoretical Biology. vol. 335, p. 153-159. 2013. (oct) 46. Carlos A. C. Bastos, Vera Afreixo, Armando J. Pinho, Sara P. Garcia,
João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Paulo J. S. G. Ferreira, “Inter-dinucleotide distances
in the human genome: an analysis of the whole-genome and protein-coding
distributions”. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics. vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 172. 2011. http://journal.imbio.de/articles/pdf/jib-172.pdf 47. Vera Afreixo, Carlos A. C. Bastos, Armando J. Pinho, Sara P. Garcia and
Paulo J. S. G. Ferreira. “Genome analysis with distance to the nearest dissimilar
nucleotide”. Journal of Theoretical Biology. vol.
275, no. 1, pp. 52–58. 2011 (doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.01.038) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.01.038
48. Freitas, Adelaide; Afreixo, Vera; Pinheiro, Miguel; Oliveira, José
Luís; Moura, Gabriela; Santos, Manuel. “Improving the performance of the Iterative
Signature Algorithm for the identification of relevant patterns”. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 71–83. 2011 (doi: 10.1002/sam.10104) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sam.10104/pdf 49. Vera Afreixo, Carlos A. C. Bastos, Armando J. Pinho, Sara P. Garcia and
Paulo J. S. G. Ferreira. “Genome
analysis with inter-nucleotide distances”. Bioinformatics. vol. 25, no. 23, pp.
3064–3070, Dec. 2009. http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/25/23/3064
50. Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves, Vera Afreixo, Carlos A. C.
Bastos and Paulo J. S. G. Ferreira. “A
Three-State Model for DNA. Protein-Coding Regions”. IEEE Transactions on
Biomedical Engineering, vol. 53, no. 11, pp. 2148-2155, Nov. 2006. http://www.ieeta.pt/~pjf/PDF/Ferreira2006c.pdf
51. M. Pinheiro, V. Afreixo, G. Moura, A. Freitas, M. A. Santos, and J. L.
Oliveira, “Statistical, computational and visualization methodologies to unveil
gene primary structure features”. Methods
of Information in Medicine, vol. 45, pp.163-168, issue 2, 2006. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16538282
52. Gabriela R Moura, Pinheiro M Pinheiro, Raquel M Silva, Isabel M
Miranda, Vera M Afreixo, Gaspar Dias, Adelaide Freitas, Jose L Oliveira and
Manuel AS Santos. “Comparative
context analysis of codon pairs on an ORFeome scale”. Genome Biology vol. 6,
issue 3, article R28, Fev. 2005. http://genomebiology.com/2005/6/3/R28
53. Vera M. A. Afreixo, Paulo J. S. G. Ferreira and Dorabella M. S. Santos.
“Fourier analysis of symbolic
data: a brief review”. Digital Signal Processing. vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 523-530,
Nov. 2004. http://www.ieeta.pt/~pjf/PDF/Ferreira2004e.pdf
54. Vera M. A. Afreixo, Paulo J. S. G. Ferreira and Dorabella M. S. Santos.
“The spectrum and symbol
distribution of nucleotide”. Physical Review E. vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 031910,
Sep. 2004. http://www.ieeta.pt/~pjf/PDF/Ferreira2004d.pdf Institution: Mathematics Department – University of Aveiro Subjects:
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