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Editorial

Primordial Prevention and Wearable Health Devices: The Wearables in Cardiology

Eduardo Campos Pellanda et al. Lucia Campos Pellanda

Epidemiology has shown the growing importance of prevention as a way of dealing with the cardiovascular risk epidemic. One of the fundamental changes in concepts in recent decades was the shift in the prevention paradigm to ever earlier stages, both in the disease development, affecting an increasing number of individuals that have yet to develop a pathological condition or those who are in the early and treatable stages, as of the life line itself, looking for the origin of chronic diseases in intrauterine life. Thus, the concept of primordial prevention arose, that is, the prevention of the actual risk factors.

Ideally, preventing the establishment of risk factors in a population would keep it disease-free. Although utopian, the scenario described is useful to guide prevention strategies. One of the main current objectives is to reach the greatest possible number of individuals before they develop a risk profile.

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Editorial

Distance Psychotherapy – New Reality

Protásio L. da Luz et al. Mayra L. Gagliani Bellkiss W. Romano

High technology progresses fast in the medical area. The most recent advance is the “big data” study, in which multiple technologies are applied to populations in order to incorporate genetic data, biological markers and imaging, to assess risks and predict the occurrence of clinical phenomena. That is a global, multidisciplinary and multinational view, which supports and helps the implementation of preventive actions.

Psychology practice in Brazil, however, still resists to this modernity. Face-to-face psychotherapy is the only modality of treatment accepted by the Brazilian Federal Council of Psychology. However, distance counseling, via Internet or mobile phone, has been increasingly used in the USA, Europe and Oceania. Epstein et al. have reported the increasing use of “e-therapy”, as well as the exponential growth of related publications. In New Zealand, Gibson et al. have reported the experience of adolescents with mobile phone therapy. Eight aspects were identified by adolescents as advantageous: privacy, autonomy, control, anonymity, easy access, personalization, individualization of language, and connection.

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Letter to the Editor

Patients' use of the Internet

George Barreto Miranda et al. João Ricardo Cordeiro Max Grinberg

Dear Editor,

In Brazil, a country where digital inclusion at home is growing, there is a lack of data on the patients’ use of the Internet for health information. A survey conducted among 118 patient in the Heart Valve Diseases Outpatient Clinic of InCor, resulted in the findings shown in .

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Primordial Prevention and Wearable Health Devices: The Wearables in Cardiology

Distance Psychotherapy – New Reality

Patients' use of the Internet

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