Research Group: PaCeIT: Patient-Centered Innovation and Technologies
Thematic Line: TL3 – Health Data, Decision Sciences & Information Technologies
Hub: Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Research Areas: Cardiopneumology, Big Data, Asthma, Rhinitis, mHealth
Updated on 09/02/2020
Rita Amaral is an integrated researcher in the research group PaCeIT – Patient-Centered Innovation and Technologies, at CINTESIS.
She graduated in Cardiopneumology from the Escola Superior de Tecnologias da Saúde in 2006. She completed a postgraduate in Adapted Physical Activity at the Faculty of Sports of the University of Porto, a Master in Evidence and Decision in Health from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, and a Doctorate in Clinical Research and Health Services from the same Faculty. She is interested in Big Data, Data Mining, and Intelligent Data Analysis with application in health, in particular to the study of chronic respiratory diseases.
Since 2015, she has worked as a reviewer for the journals Chest, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, BMJ Open, and American Journal of Rhinology & Allergy. She an associate editor of the Revista Cardiopulmonar. Rita Amaral has received several awards. One of the most important is the 1º Place for the best research article, given by the Luso-Brazilian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (SLBAIC) and the SPAIC Award by AstraZeneca, in 2017.
Currently, she works as a guest assistant professor at the Escola Superior de Saúde do Porto – IPP and as a Cardiopneumology technician at the CUF Hospital and at the CUF Porto Institute. She also participates in different projects of her group.
TITLE: Comparison of hypothesis- and data-driven asthma phenotypes in NHANES 2007-2012: the importance of comprehensive data availability
AUTHORS: Rita Amaral; Ana M Pereira; Tiago Jacinto; Andrei Malinovschi; Christer Janson; Kjell Alving; Joao A Fonseca;
SOURCE: CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL ALLERGY, VOLUME: 9, ISSUE: 1, PUBLISHED: 2019
TITLE: Cost of asthma in children: A nationwide, population-based, cost-of-illness study
AUTHORS: Manuel Ferreira de Magalhaes; Rita Amaral; Ana M Pereira; Ana Sa Sousa; Ines Azevedo; Luis F Azevedo; Joao A Fonseca;
SOURCE: PEDIATRIC ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY, VOLUME: 28, ISSUE: 7, PUBLISHED: 2017
TITLE: Assessment of Bronchodilator Response with Spirometry in Children with and without Asthma – The Relevance of the Smaller Airways
AUTHORS: Amaral, R; Jacinto, T; Pereira, AM; Goncalves, I; Sa Sousa, A; Araujo, L; Fonseca, JA;
SOURCE: PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY, VOLUME: 52, PUBLISHED: 2017
TITLE: Use of the Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test (CARATkids) in children and adolescents: Validation in Dutch
AUTHORS: Emons, JAM; Flokstra, BMJ; de Jong, C; van der Molen, T; Brand, HK; Arends, NJT; Amaral, R; Fonseca, JA; Gerth G van Wijk;
SOURCE: PEDIATRIC ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY, VOLUME: 28, ISSUE: 2, PUBLISHED: 2017
TITLE: Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test for Children (CARATKids) Validation in Brazil and cutoff values
AUTHORS: Rita Amaral; Ana C Carneiro; Gustavo Wandalsen; Joao A Fonseca; Dirceu Sole;
SOURCE: ANNALS OF ALLERGY ASTHMA & IMMUNOLOGY, VOLUME: 118, ISSUE: 5, PUBLISHED: 2017