Research Group: ProNutri: Clinical Nutrition & Disease Programming
Thematic Line: TL1 – Preventive Medicine & Societal Challenges
Hub: Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Research Areas: Pediatrics; Nutrition and Dietetics; Endocrinology and Metabolism
updated on 15/03/2018
António Guerra is an integrated member of ProNutri, a Research group of CINTESIS.
He graduated in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, and earned his Doctorate in Pediatrics from the same institution.
He is has authored of more than 10 book chapters in national editions and 6 book chapters in international editions. He has also published more than a hundred works in national and international journals and has presented near 500 oral communications in events in the field of Pediatrics.
He has been part of the Scientific and Organizing Committees of several scientific meetings and has won 20 awards, among which is the Pfizer Award to Clinical Research of 2009.
Currently, he is the Head of the Pediatrics Service and the Coordinator of the Nutrition Unit of the Pediatrics Department of the Hospital Center of São João, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at FMUP.
AUTHORS: Catarina Pais; Liane Correia Costa; Claudia Moura; Claudia Mota; Milton Severo; Antonio Guerra; Jose Carlos Areias; Franz Schaefer; Alberto Caldas Afonso; Henrique Barros; Ana Cristina Santos; Ana Azevedo;
SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY, VOLUME: 204, PUBLISHED: 2016
TITLE: Determinants of carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity in prepubertal children
AUTHORS: Ana Correia Costa; Liane Correia Costa; Alberto Caldas Afonso; Franz Schaefer; Antonio Guerra; Claudia Moura; Claudia Mota; Henrique Barros; Jose Carlos Areias; Ana Azevedo;
SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY, VOLUME: 218, PUBLISHED: 2016
TITLE: ASSOCIATION OF ERYTHROCYTE ACID PHOSPHATASE (LMW-PTP) GENOTYPES WITH OBESITY BUT NOT HYPERTENSION
AUTHORS: Pereira P Da Silva; Rego, C; Alho, I; Themudo T Barata; Sardinha, L; Guerra, A; Bicho, M;
SOURCE: 19th European Meeting on Hypertension in JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION, VOLUME: 27, PUBLISHED: 2009
TITLE: Genetic distribution of GSTM1 and GSTT1 in hypertensive Portuguese subjects: Association with plasma epinephrine oxidase activity
AUTHORS: Correia, M; Coelho, E; Rego, C; Marinho, C; Alcantara, P; Guerra, A; Rodrigues, P; Bras Nogueira, J; Bicho, M;
SOURCE: 14th European Meeting on Hypertension in JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION, VOLUME: 22, PUBLISHED: 2004
TITLE: Lipid Profile in Portuguese Obese Children and Adolescents Interaction of Apolipoprotein E Polymorphism With Adiponectin Levels
AUTHORS: Henrique Nascimento; Leticia Silva; Pedro Lourenco; Radka Weinfurterova; Elisabeth Castro; Carla Rego; Helena Ferreira; Antonio Guerra; Alexandre Quintanilha; Alice Santos Silva; Luis Belo;
SOURCE: ARCHIVES OF PEDIATRICS & ADOLESCENT MEDICINE, VOLUME: 163, ISSUE: 11, PUBLISHED: 2009