Browsing by Author "Pereira Scalabrino, Ana"

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    • Breast bud detection: a validation study in the Chilean Growth Obesity Cohort Study 
      Pereira Scalabrino, Ana; Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa; Araya González, Daniela; Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Mericq, Verónica; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: Early puberty onset has been related to future chronic disease; however breast bud assessment in large scale population studies is difficult because it requires trained personnel. Thus our aim is to assess the ...
    • Cervical Cancer Screening Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean 
      Murillo, Raul; Almonte, Maribel; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana; Ferrer, Elena; Gamboa, Oscar A.; Jerónimo, José; Lazcano Ponce, Eduardo (ELSEVIER SCI LTD., 2008-08-19)
      Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have a significant burden of cervical cancer. Prophylactic human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are an opportunity for primary prevention and new screening methods, such as new HPV DNA ...
    • Cervical Cancer Screening Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean 
      Murillo, Raul; Almonte, Maribel; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana; Ferrer, Elena; Gamboa, Oscar A.; Jerónimo, José; Lazcano Ponce, Eduardo (ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2008-08-19)
      Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have a significant burden of cervical cancer. Prophylactic human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are an opportunity for primary prevention and new screening methods, such as new HPV DNA ...
    • Country-level correlates of cervical cancer mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean 
      Pereira Scalabrino, Ana; Almonte, Maribel; Dos Santos Silva, Isabel (2013)
      Objective. To identify country-level correlates of geographical variations in cervical cancer (CC) mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Materials and methods. CC mortality rates for LAC countries (n=26) ...
    • Ultrasensitive estrogen levels at 7 years of age predict earlier thelarche: evidence from girls of the ... 
      Pereira Scalabrino, Ana; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Klein, Karen O.; Mericq, Verónica (Bioscientifica Ltd, 2015)
      Objective: Prepubertal estradiol equivalents have been inconsistently linked to age at thelarche; elucidating this relationship becomes relevant given the worldwide decline in the age of puberty onset. Thus, our aim is to ...