Manuela Ferreira Almeida
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Pinto A, Ahring K, Almeida M, Ashmore C, Belanger-Quintana A, Burlina A, et al.
Nutrients
. 2024 Sep;
16(17).
PMID: 39275225
In phenylketonuria (PKU), natural protein intake is thought to increase with age, particularly during childhood and adolescence. Longitudinal dietary intake data are scarce and lifelong phenylalanine tolerance remains unknown. Nine...
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Pinto A, Ahring K, Almeida M, Ashmore C, Belanger-Quintana A, Burlina A, et al.
Nutrients
. 2024 Jul;
16(13).
PMID: 38999811
Background: In 2011, a European phenylketonuria (PKU) survey reported that the blood phenylalanine (Phe) levels were well controlled in early life but deteriorated with age. Other studies have shown similar...
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Gomes M, Almeida M, Sousa Barbosa C, Gama M, Peres M, Pinto E, et al.
Nutrients
. 2023 Dec;
15(23).
PMID: 38068741
In PKU, the protein requirements are contentious. In 2018, we evaluated the protein intake in patients with PKU. Ninety-nine early treated patients aged 19.3 ± 8.2 years (54% males) were...
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Soares C, Almeida M, Soares G, Tkachenko N, Fortuna A, Carmona C
Am J Med Genet A
. 2023 Mar;
191(6):1525-1529.
PMID: 36872876
In phenylketonuria (PKU), high phenylalanine (Phe) levels hamper neurodevelopment impairing executive function later in life. While the second has been more studied, fewer data exist on predictors of PKU patients'...
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Kanufre V, Almeida M, Sousa Barbosa C, Carmona C, Bandeira A, Martins E, et al.
Nutrients
. 2021 Sep;
13(9).
PMID: 34578995
Blood phenylalanine (Phe) is used as the primary marker to evaluate metabolic control. Our study aimed to describe the metabolic control of patients with phenylketonuria (PKU) comparing three different treatment...
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Pinto A, Evans S, Daly A, Almeida M, Assoun M, Belanger-Quintana A, et al.
J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab
. 2019 Dec;
33(1):147-155.
PMID: 31846426
Background The dietary management of methylmalonic acidaemia (MMA) is a low-protein diet providing sufficient energy to avoid catabolism and to limit production of methylmalonic acid. The goal is to achieve...
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Sousa C, Almeida M, Sousa Barbosa C, Martins E, Janeiro P, Tavares de Almeida I, et al.
J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab
. 2019 May;
32(6):623-629.
PMID: 31141484
Background Phenylketonuria (PKU) management practices differ between and within countries. In 2007, the Portuguese Society for Metabolic Disorders (SPDM) approved the Portuguese Consensus (PC) for the nutritional treatment of PKU....
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Rocha J, van Dam E, Ahring K, Almeida M, Belanger-Quintana A, Dokoupil K, et al.
J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab
. 2019 May;
32(6):635-641.
PMID: 31112507
Background Phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare, inherited metabolic condition, is treated with a strict low-phenylalanine (Phe) diet, supplemented with Phe-free protein substitute. The optimal nutritional management of a sporting individual with...
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Pinto A, Almeida M, MacDonald A, Ramos P, Rocha S, Guimas A, et al.
Nutrients
. 2019 May;
11(5).
PMID: 31052331
Phenylalanine (Phe) tolerance is highly variable in phenylketonuria (PKU) and rarely described in patients aged ≥12 years. Patients ≥12 years of age with PKU were systematically challenged with additional natural...
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Pinto A, MacDonald A, Cleto E, Almeida M, Ramos P, Rocha J
Turk J Pediatr
. 2017 Dec;
59(2):189-192.
PMID: 29276873
Pinto A, MacDonald A, Cleto E, Almeida MF, Ramos PC, Rocha JC. A case report of a 4-year-old child with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency: An evidence based approach to nutritional management....