Bone mineral density of Brazilian girls with juvenile dermatomyositis by T.C.M. de Castro, M.T.R.A. Terreri, V.L. Szejnfeld, C. Len, A.S.M. da Fonseca, M.O.E. Hilário

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A controlled trial of a dissonance-based eating disorders prevention program with Brazilian girls by Ana Carolina Soares Amaral, Eric Stice, Maria Elisa Caputo Ferreira

“…This trial evaluated the efficacy of this prevention program with Brazilian girls, as no published study has tested whether this intervention is culturally sensitive and efficacious with Latin-American adolescents. …”
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Imaginação, culturas e fontes documentais em desenhos de meninas e meninos da Educação Infantil brasileira by Marcia Aparecida Gobbi

“…This article presents aspects of imagination and culture of Brazilian girls and boys of Sao Paulo childhood education from some of his drawings. …”
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Gross motor skills trajectory variation between WEIRD and LMIC countries: A cross-cultural study. by Nadia Cristina Valentini, Glauber Carvalho Nobre, Marcelo Gonçalves Duarte

“…<h4>Results</h4>The prevalence of delays and borderline impaired performance was high among Brazilian girls (28.3% and 27.5%) and boys (10.6% and 22.7%). …”
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Screen time between Portuguese and Brazilian children: a cross-cultural study by Amanda Santos, Sandra Silva-Santos, Alynne Andaki, Edmar Lacerda Mendes, Susana Vale, Jorge Mota

“…Brazilian girls (OR=7.593; p=0.0001) as well as Brazilian boys (OR=6.564; p=0.0001) were more likely to do not meet ST recommendation, compared with their Portuguese counterparts. …”
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Cross-cultural comparisons of motor competence in southern Brazilian and Portuguese schoolchildren by Fábio Saraiva Flôres, Luis Paulo Rodrigues, Carlos Luz, Rita Cordovil

“…The distribution of the Brazilian children showed that while Brazilian boys perform above Portuguese normative values in 4 of the 6 tasks of the MCA, Brazilian girls perform below those values in all tasks, except for the standing long jump. …”
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Translation, Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of SATAQ-4R for Brazilian Children by Clara Mockdece Neves, Juliana Fernandes Filgueiras Meireles, Fabiane Frota da Rocha Morgado, Ana Carolina Soares Amaral, Maria Elisa Caputo Ferreira

“…Objective The general objective of this study was to translate, adapt, and verify the psychometric qualities of the SATAQ-4R for Brazilian girls and boys aged between 7 and 11 years old. …”
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Maturação física: uma revisão da literatura, com especial atenção à criança brasileira Physical maturation: a review with special reference to Brazilian children by Maria de Fátima da S. Duarte

“…The national median menarcheal age in Brazilian girls obtained by INAN (1990) was 13.2 years. …”
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Atitudes alimentares e imagem corporal em meninas adolescentes de ascendência nipônica e caucasiana em São Paulo (SP) Eating attitudes and body image in ethnic Japanese and Caucasi... by Míriam A. Sampei, Dirce M. Sigulem, Neil F. Novo, Yara Juliano, Fernando A. B. Colugnati

“…RESULTS: Caucasian girls obtained higher scores on the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), showed greater body image dissatisfaction, dieted more often and had more diet models introduced by their mothers and peers than the Japanese-Brazilian girls. CONCLUSION: The Caucasian adolescents overall appeared to be more sensitive to aesthetic and social pressures regarding body image than the Japanese adolescents. …”
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Kala-azar in a Brazilian child by Michael K. Hole, Yann Meunier

“…We report the case of a six-year-old Brazilian girl referred for splenomegaly who first presented with fever, asthenia, and weight loss. …”
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Legal abortion in childhood: the official discourse and the reality of a Brazilian case by Lucimara Fabiana Fornari, Emiko Yoshikawa Egry, Mariana Sbeghen Menegatti, Karen Namie Sakata So, Rosa Maria Godoy Serpa da Fonseca, Maria Amélia de Campos Oliveira

“…Results: a total of 39 documents were selected and three empirical categories were identified: Protection against violence in the legislation and the (re)production of injuries in reality; Facing sexual violence against children by the Brazilian State; Being a Brazilian girl: gender and generational oppressions. …”
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Uso do clodronato endovenoso na calcinose difusa em uma criança com síndrome de superposição esclerose sistêmica e dermatomiosite Use of clodronate in extensive calcinosis in a chi... by Gláucio R. Werner de Castro, Percival D. Sampaio-Barros, Simone Appenzeller, João Francisco Marques Neto, Adil M. Samara

“…<br>The authors report an Afro-Brazilian girl with systemic sclerosis and dermatomyositis overlap who evolved with extensive calcinosis, complicated by secondary infections and important disability. …”
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Neurocisticercose e síndrome de lennox-gastaut: relato de caso Neurocysticercosis and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome: case report by SVETLANA AGAPEJEV, NIÚRA A.M. RIBEIRO PADULA, NÍVEA M. OLIVEIRA MORALES, MÁRCIA M. FERREIRA LIMA

“…The association between neurocysticercosis and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome was first described in 1973 by Frochtengarten & Scarante in a Brazilian girl with a similar clinical picture.…”
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