“…Figure 2. Distribution of the regional studies of the studies in Brazil by region.In total 44 (47%) papers were published in journals[8,9,25,26,28-31,50- 55,57,59,63,65,69,79,82,83,85-89,91-93,96-98,102-106,108,109,111-113,116], 26 (28%)[34- 49,71-78,100,101] were publications of population-based studies conducted by research institutes, 13 (14%)[27,32,33,60,61,67,81,84,90,95,99,110,115] were dissertations, 8 (8%)[58,64,66,68,70,94,107,114] were theses, and 3 (3%)[56,62,80] were research protocols. All included studies were published between 2004 and 2023.…”