BEATRIZ HELENA TESS

@usp.br

Departamento de Medicina Preventiva da FMUSP
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo

BEATRIZ HELENA TESS


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RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Multidisciplinary, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Health Policy
1726

Scholar Citations

18

Scholar h-index

21

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Estimating the Bariatric Surgery Rate in the Potentially Eligible Population within the Brazilian Public Healthcare System, 2017–2023
    LR da Silva, CM Kanai, ACB Dantas, WV de Souza, D Pajecki, BH Tess
    Obesity Surgery, 1-6 , 2026
    2026
  • Baixo acesso às cirurgias bariátricas pelo Sistema Único de Saúde no Rio Grande do Norte, 2017-2023: Estimando a taxa de cirurgias realizadas
    LM Lougon, LR da Silva, ACB Dantas, D Pajecki, BH Tess
    Revista de Administração em Saúde 25 (101) , 2025
    2025
  • Translation and Validation of the Brazilian Version of the European Obesity Academy Questionnaire on Patients' Motivations for Seeking Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (Aug, 10 …
    SR da Silva, YP Wang, ACB Dantas, D Pajecki, PSP Silveira, JO Siqueira, ...
    OBESITY SURGERY 34 (10), 3918-3918 , 2024
    2024
  • Correction: Translation and Validation of the Brazilian Version of the European Obesity Academy Questionnaire on Patients’ Motivations for Seeking Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
    SR da Silva, YP Wang, ACB Dantas, D Pajecki, PSP Silveira, ...
    Obesity Surgery 34 (10), 3918-3918 , 2024
    2024
  • Translation and Validation of the Brazilian Version of the European Obesity Academy Questionnaire on Patients’ Motivations for Seeking Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
    SR da Silva, W Yuan-Pang, ACB Dantas, D Pajecki, PSP Silveira, ...
    Obesity Surgery 34 (10), 3840-3847 , 2024
    2024
  • Seroprevalence trends of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the adult population of the São Paulo municipality, Brazil: results from seven serosurveys from June 2020 to April 2022 …
    BH Tess, CM Turchi Martelli, MC Goi Porto Alves, F Cortes, ...
    Plos one 19 (8), e0309441 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 4
  • Beyond the BMI: a critical analysis of the Edmonton Obesity Staging System and the new guidelines for indications for metabolic and bariatric surgery
    D Pajecki, ACB Dantas, MA Santo, BH Tess
    Obesity surgery 33 (4), 1276-1278 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 3
  • Encouraging physical fitness in Brazilian adolescents with excess weight: can they outperform their eutrophic peers in some activities?
    GC Portella, DL Portella, J de Oliveira Siqueira, LR Iuamoto, BH Tess
    International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health 34 (2), 41-48 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 4
  • Assessment of initial SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in the most affected districts in the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil
    BH Tess, CFH Granato, MCGP Alves, MCT Pintão, MC Nunes, EG Rizzatti, ...
    Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases 25 (04), 101604 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 8
  • Metabolic status is not associated with job stress in individuals with obesity: the ELSA-Brasil baseline
    L Imbiriba, BH Tess, RH Griep, MJM Fonseca, AC Pereira, MFS Diniz, ...
    International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 94 (4), 639-646 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 6
  • Medical students with performance difficulties need wide support: Initial results of an academic tutoring program
    PL Bellodi, M Dolhnikoff, AL Jacomo, AA de Lima Jorge, AA Ferraro, ...
    Clinics 76, e2495 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 13
  • SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil, ten weeks after the first reported case
    BH Tess, CFH Granato, MCG Porto Alves, MC Pintao, E Rizzatti, ...
    MedRxiv, 2020.06. 29.20142331 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 37
  • FEDERAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS: HETEROGENEITY IN THE COORDINATION OF CLINICAL TRIALS AUTHORIZED BY THE NATIONAL HEALTH SURVEILLANCE AGENCY.
    CS Costa da Cunha, OJNV Bittar, BH Tess
    Clinical & Biomedical Research 40 (2), 76 , 2020
    2020
  • The Edmonton Obesity Staging System: assessing a potential tool to improve the management of obesity surgery in the Brazilian public health services
    NC Ogassavara, JGM Dias, D Pajecki, J de Oliveira Siqueira, MA Santo, ...
    Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases 16 (1), 40-47 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 18
  • Tratamento cirúrgico da obesidade pelo Sistema Único de Saúde: Um estudo do acesso em nove serviços no Estado de São Paulo
    LF Pelegrini, BH Tess, OJNV Bittar, D Pajecki
    Revista de Administração em Saúde 19 (77) , 2019
    2019
  • Fasting insulin resistance affects the prevalence of metabolically healthy obesity in Brazilian adolescents
    NF Marra, MT Bechere Fernandes, ME de Melo, RM da Cruz, BH Tess
    Acta Paediatrica 108 (7), 1295-1302 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 9
  • Bariatric surgery and binge eating disorder: should surgeons care about it? A literature review of prevalence and assessment tools
    BH Tess, L Maximiano-Ferreira, D Pajecki, YP Wang
    Arquivos de gastroenterologia 56 (01), 55-60 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 27
  • 144. Performance In Physical Fitness Tests of Adolescents With Excess of Weight: Are They Better Than Their Eutrophic Peers?
    GC Portella, DL Portella, JO Siqueira, BH Tess
    Journal of Adolescent Health 64 (2), S74-S75 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 1
  • COMPARISON BETWEEN THE EDMONTON OBESITY STAGING SYSTEM (EOSS) AND THE BMI CLASSIFICATION IN PATIENTS SUBMITTED TO BARIATRIC SURGERY IN BRAZIL Multidisciplinary care (Primary …
    D Pajecki, MA Santo, NC Ogassavara, JGM Dias, JDO Siqueira, BH Tess, ...
    SPRINGER , 2019
    2019
  • Cirurgia bariátrica e transtorno de compulsão alimentar: os cirurgiões devem se preocupar com isso? Uma revisão da literatura sobre a prevalência e os métodos de diagnóstico
    BH Tess, L Maximiano-Ferreira, D Pajecki, YP Wang
    Arquivos de Gastroenterologia 56, 55-60 , 2019
    2019

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • The prevalence of metabolically healthy obesity: a systematic review and critical evaluation of the definitions used
    JP Rey‐López, LF De Rezende, M Pastor‐Valero, BH Tess
    Obesity reviews 15 (10), 781-790 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 435
  • Breastfeeding, genetic, obstetric and other risk factors associated with mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 in Sao Paulo State, Brazil
    BH Tess, LC Rodrigues, ML Newell, DT Dunn, TDG Lago
    Aids 12 (5), 513-520 , 1998
    1998
    Citations: 244
  • Hepatitis C virus infection in the mothers and infants cohort study
    MO Granovsky, HL Minkoff, BH Tess, D Waters, A Hatzakis, DE Devoid, ...
    Pediatrics 102 (2), 355-359 , 1998
    1998
    Citations: 221
  • Profissionais da Estratégia Saúde da Família diante de demandas médico-sociais: dificuldades e estratégias de enfrentamento
    NP Kanno, PL Bellodi, BH Tess
    Saúde e sociedade 21 (4), 884-894 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 100
  • Infant feeding and risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 in Sao Paulo State, Brazil
    BH Tess, LC Rodrigues, ML Newell, DT Dunn, TDG Lago
    JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 19 (2), 189-194 , 1998
    1998
    Citations: 100
  • Prospective study of hepatitis C viral infection as a risk factor for subsequent B-cell neoplasia
    CS Rabkin, BH Tess, RE Christianson, WE Wright, DJ Waters, HJ Alter, ...
    Blood, The Journal of the American Society of Hematology 99 (11), 4240-4242 , 2002
    2002
    Citations: 80
  • Incidence of hospital-acquired infection and length of hospital stay
    BH Tess, HM Glenister, LC Rodrigues, MB Wagner
    European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 12 (2), 81-86 , 1993
    1993
    Citations: 73
  • Mother-to-child transmission of HIV: implications of variation in maternal infectivity
    DT Dunn, BH Tess, LC Rodrigues, AE Ades
    Aids 12 (16), 2211-2216 , 1998
    1998
    Citations: 64
  • Interventions to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection: new developments and current controversies.
    DM Gibb, BH Tess
    1999
    Citations: 55
  • Seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus in the general population of northwest Tanzania.
    BH Tess, A Levin, G Brubaker, J Shao, JE Drummond, HJ Alter, ...
    The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 62 (1), 138-141 , 2000
    2000
    Citations: 50
  • SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil, ten weeks after the first reported case
    BH Tess, CFH Granato, MCG Porto Alves, MC Pintao, E Rizzatti, ...
    MedRxiv, 2020.06. 29.20142331 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 37
  • Assessing the scientific research productivity of a Brazilian healthcare institution: a case study at the Heart Institute of Sao Paulo, Brazil
    BH Tess, SS Furuie, RCF Castro, MCC Barreto, MRC Nobre
    Clinics 64 (6), 571-576 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 37
  • Adesão ao seguimento nutricional ambulatorial pós-cirurgia bariátrica e fatores associados
    VM Scabim, J Eluf-Neto, BH Tess
    Revista de Nutrição 25, 497-506 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 35
  • Bariatric surgery and binge eating disorder: should surgeons care about it? A literature review of prevalence and assessment tools
    BH Tess, L Maximiano-Ferreira, D Pajecki, YP Wang
    Arquivos de gastroenterologia 56 (01), 55-60 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 27
  • Intersectorial health-related policies: the use of a legal and theoretical framework to propose a typology to a case study in a Brazilian municipality
    BH Tess, FMA Aith
    Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 19, 4449-4456 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 23
  • Obese patients lose weight independently of nutritional follow-up after bariatric surgery
    BH Tess, VM Scabim, MA Santo, JCR Pereira
    Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira 61, 139-143 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 20
  • Salivary testing for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection in children born to infected mothers in Sao Paulo, Brazil
    BH Tess, C Granato, JV Parry, VA Santos, TG Lago, ML Newell, DT Dunn, ...
    The Pediatric infectious disease journal 15 (9), 787-790 , 1996
    1996
    Citations: 20
  • The Edmonton Obesity Staging System: assessing a potential tool to improve the management of obesity surgery in the Brazilian public health services
    NC Ogassavara, JGM Dias, D Pajecki, J de Oliveira Siqueira, MA Santo, ...
    Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases 16 (1), 40-47 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 18
  • Medical students with performance difficulties need wide support: Initial results of an academic tutoring program
    PL Bellodi, M Dolhnikoff, AL Jacomo, AA de Lima Jorge, AA Ferraro, ...
    Clinics 76, e2495 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 13
  • Sao Paulo Collaborative Study for Vertical Transmission of HIV-1. Infant feeding and risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 in Sao Paulo State, Brazil
    BH Tess, LC Rodrigues, M Newell, D Dunn, TMG Lago
    Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology 19 … , 1998
    1998
    Citations: 12