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Mozambican doctor wins cerebrovascular research scholarship in Portugal
7:32 CAT | 30 Mar 2017
Hipólito Nzwalo, a Mozambican professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine at the University of Algarve, in Portugal, was awarded a research grant for cerebral vascular diseases last year by the Portuguese Society for Cerebrovascular Accident.
The winning project, titled “Influence of meteorological and environmental changes on the circadian, circaseptan and circanual distribution of intracerebral hemorrhage in the Algarve”, names Hipólito Nzwalo as main researcher.
The aim of this study is to establish whether daily, weekly and monthly variations in temperature and pollution levels are associated with a greater risk of a hemorrhagic stroke.
Some studies that have suggested that temperature declines and high levels of certain air pollutants may actually increase the risk of hemorrhagic stroke. “We intend not only to identify this association, but also to try to understand who are most vulnerable. By recognising the risk, we will be better able to advise and influence preventative behaviours, ” the researcher explains.
Nzwalo has been working at the University of the Algarve since 2010 as supervisor of several undergraduate studies in Biomedical Sciences and, since 2012, as a guest lecturer in Medicine. He acknowledges that this award, “besides enabling me financially to execute all the phases of the study, is an unequivocal sign of confidence in the work being developed”.
Nzwalo holds a degree in Medicine from Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique, a Master’s Degree in Sleep Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and a PhD in Neuroscience from Norway’s Bergen University.
Source: Sul Informação
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