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Burgos, Soledad; Tenorio, Marcela; Zapata, Pamela; Cáceres, Dante D.; Klarian, José; Alvarez, Nancy; Oviedo, Renato; Toro-Campos, Rosario; Claudio, Luz; Iglesias, Verónica (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2017)© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Between 1984 and 1998, people living in Arica were involuntarily exposed to metal-containing waste stored in the urban area. The study aims to determine whether ...
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Iglesias, Verónica; Steenland, Kyle; Maisonet, Mildred; Pino, Paulina (Hamilton Hardy Publishing Inc., 2011)This study assesses the degree of impairment of children's IQ scores due to exposure to lead from a storage site. In 2005, we studied 192 children in Antofagasta, Chile, age 7-16 years who had been exposed to a lead storage ...
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Muñoz Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero, Boris; Iglesias, Verónica; Levy, Karen; Muñoz, María Pía; Achú, Eduardo; Cornejo, Claudia; Concha, Carlos; Brito, Ana María; Villalobos, Marcos (Taylor and Francis, 2017)The objective was to evaluate the characteristics of exposure to OP pesticides and health status in Chilean farm workers from the Maule Region. An occupational health questionnaire was administered in 207 agricultural and ...
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García, Carlos; Lagos, Marcelo; Truan, Dominique; Lattes, Karinna; Véjar, Omar; Chamorro, Beatriz; Iglesias, Verónica; Andrinolo, Darío; Lagos, Néstor (Society of Biology of Chile, 2005)This study reports the data recorded from four patients intoxicated with shellfish during the summer 2002, after consuming ribbed mussels (Aulacomya ater) with paralytic shellfish toxin contents of 8,066 +/- 61.37 microg/100 ...
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Burgos, Soledad; Madrid, Miguel A.; Maldonado, Ana; Medina, Felipe; Iglesias, Verónica (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2018)© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Vulnerability assessments are commonly based on complex indices that may be inappropriate for characterizing risks in small groups of people exposed to ...
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Muñoz Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero, Boris A.; Gutiérrez Jara, Juan Pablo; Buralli, Rafael J.; Zúñiga Venegas, Liliana; Muñoz, María Pía; Vilches Ponce, Karina; Iglesias, Verónica (Elsevier, 2020)Background: Several studies showed that early exposure to pesticides affects the development and health of children. In Maule, there is previous evidence of the high exposure to organophosphate pesticides (OP) of schoolchildren. ...
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Muñoz Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero, Boris; Iglesias, Verónica; Muñoz, María Pía; Achú, Eduardo; Cornejo, Claudia; Concha, carlos; Grillo, Ángela; Brito, Ana María (Elsevier, 2016)Objetivo: Evaluar la exposición a plaguicidas organofosforados y el desempeno˜ neuropsicológico y motor de trabajadores/as agrícolas y no agrícolas de la Región del Maule, Chile. Método: Estudio transversal analítico con ...
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Muñoz Quezada, María Teresa; Iglesias, Verónica; Lucero, Boris; Steenland, Kyle; Barr, Dana Boyd; Levy, Karen; Ryan, P. Barry; Alvarado, Sergio A.; Concha, Carlos (Elsevier Ltd, 2012)Background: Few data exist in Latin America concerning the association between organophosphate (OP) urinary metabolites and the consumption of fruits and vegetables and other exposure risk variables in schoolchildren. ...
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Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero, Boris; Bradman, Asa; Baumert, Brittney; Iglesias, Verónica; Muñoz, María Pía; Concha, Carlos (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2019)© 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The aim was to evaluate the reliability and validity of a questionnaire to assess organophosphate pesticide (OP) exposure ...
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Parro, Javiera; Aceituno, Paulina; Droppelmann, Andrea; Mesias, Sthepanie; Muñoz, Claudio; Marchetti Pareto, Nella; Iglesias, Verónica (BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)Introduction The workplace remains a significant source of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure. This pollutant is known to be associated with respiratory and cardiovascular problems, but its effects on specific pulmonary ...
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Aceituno, Paulina; Iglesias, Verónica; Erazo, Marcia; Droppelmann, Andrea; Orellana, Cecilia; Navas-Acién, Ana (2010)Background: Secondhand smoke (SHS) is an established cause of morbidity and mortality among non-smokers. The workplace is an important source of exposure, especially among workers of restaurants, bars and nightclubs. Aim: ...
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Andrinolo, Darío; Iglesias, Verónica; García, Carlos; Lagos, Néstor (2002)Although the action of Gonyautoxins (GTXs) and Saxitoxin (STX) mechanisms is well known at the molecular level, there are still many unresolved questions associated with the intoxication syndrome in mammals. For example, ...
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Muñoz, María Pía; Valdés, Macarena; Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero, Boris; Rubilar, Paola; Pino, Paulina; Iglesias, Verónica (MDPI AG, 2018)© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Introduction: The association of total arsenic exposure with impaired glucose tolerance and gestational diabetes has been shown; however, evidence regarding urinary ...