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    • Canales, Paulina; Araya, Magdalena; Alliende G., Francisco; Hunter, Bessie; Alarcón Orellana, Teresa; Chávez S., Eduardo (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2008-03)
      Background: Ample use of serological markets of high sensitivity and specificity led to relevant changes in the epidemiology of celiac disease. The impact of these changes in our country is poorly known. Aim: To assess the ...
    • Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Olivares Cortés, Sonia; Romo M., Marcela; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás; Cerda Rioseco, Ricardo; González P., Rosa; Giadalah Astudillo, Francisco Antonio; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2004-11)
      Background: The Chilean Ministry of Health has developed a health promotion program called "Vida Chile" whose aim is to target risk factors for chronic diseases. To achieve this, school-based initiatives in nutrition and ...
    • Lera Marques, Lydia; Ángel Badillo, Bárbara; Sánchez Reyes, Hugo; Picrin, Yaisy; Hormazábal Gatica, María José; Quiero, Andrea; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (Aula Médica Ediciones, 2015)
      Objetivos: Estimar y validar puntos de corte de índice de masa muscular esquelética (IMMAE) en adultos mayores chilenos, para el diagnóstico de sarcopenia Métodos: Estimación de puntos de corte para IMMAE determinados ...
    • Lorca Herrera, Eduardo; Garmendia Miguel, MarÍa Luisa; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Sandoval, Verónica; Bunout Barnett, Daniel (TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD., 2016)
      Chronic renal disease (CRD) in its pre-dialysis stage is an important risk factor for mortality among adults. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of CRD on mortality among consultants in Chilean public primary ...
    • Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Concha, Fernando; Salazar Rodríguez, Gabriela; Lobos, Luz; Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás (2010)
      Background: In 2007, a preventive strategy for childhood obesity, that included food education and an increase in physical activity, was implemented in seven public schools located in Santiago. In four of these schools, a ...
    • Tapia S., Alexis; Araya, Magdalena (2006)
      The frequency of Crohn disease shows a significant increase in the last century. Affected patients show a misbalance between production of free radicals and anti oxidant defenses. Thus, one of the increasingly accepted ...
    • Maza Cave, María Pía de la; Leiva Balich, Laura; Barrera Acevedo, María; Boggiano, Carolina; Herrera, Tomás; Pérez, Yanet; Gattas, Vivien; Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Hirsch Birn, Sandra (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2008-11)
      Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP) has had a positive impact on co-morbidities associated with obesity. However, in the long-term it can induce micronutrient deficiencies. Aim: To perform a complete nutritional assessment ...
    • Salinas, Judith; Muñoz, Carolina; Albagli, Andrea; Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás (Universidad de Chile, 2014)
      Background: Health promotion in Chile is essential, considering its current epidemiologic status where chronic diseases are predominant. Aim: To report the evaluation of an on-line Diploma in health promotion for Primary ...
    • Mellado Peña, Fernanda; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Kain Berkovic, Juliana (Arán Ediciones, 2020)
      Introducción: el programa chileno Vida Sana (PVS) busca disminuir los factores de riesgo de enfermedades crónicas en sujetos con sobrepeso/ obesidad entre 2 y 64 años de edad. Objetivo: evaluar los resultados del PVS ...
    • O'Shea, Iván P.; Shahed, Mohammed; Aguilera Venegas, Benjamín; Wilkinson, Shane R. (Amer Soc Microbiology, 2016)
      The growth-inhibitory properties of a 5-nitrothiazole series were evaluated against Trypanosoma brucei. A subset of related compounds displayed the greatest potency toward the parasite while exhibiting little cytotoxic ...
    • Dillman Carpentier, Francesca R.; Correa, Teresa; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Smith Taillie, Lindsey (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
      Objective: To evaluate the effects of Chile's 2016 regulation restricting child-directed marketing of products high in energy, saturated fats, sodium and sugars on reducing children's exposure to 'high-in' television food ...
    • Gironés Vilaplana, Amadeo; Baenas, Nieves; Villaño, Débora; Speisky Cosoy, Hernán; García Viguera, Cristina; Moreno, Diego A. (Elsevier, 2014)
      This work aimed to provide a thorough description of the polyphenolic composition of five Latin-American fruits of increasing interest, which have certain anti-diabetic effects (ac¸aı´, maqui, Cape gooseberry, papaya and ...
    • Mujica, Verónica; Leiva, Elba; Icaza, Gloria; Díaz, Nora; Arredondo Olguín, Miguel Armando; Moore Carrasco, Rodrigo; Orrego, Roxana; Vásquez, Marcela; Palomo, Iván (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2008-05-15)
      Objective-: Insulin resistance (IR) is an important risk factor for type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM2) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Metabolic Syndrome (MS) is a clustering of metabolic alterations associated to IR; however, ...
    • Aguirre, C. A.; Salazar, G. D.; Lopez de Romaña, D. V.; Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (Natura Publishing Group, 2015)
      BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to assess the validity of body fatness estimations based on skinfolds and bioelectrical iImpedance analyses (BIA) measurements compared to a three-component model (3C model) ...
    • Toro Ibaceta, Magaly; Williams Vergara, Jessica; Solar Zamora, Camila; Quesille Villalobos, Ana Maria; Kwon, Hee Jin; Navarrete Wallace, Paola; Meng, Jianghong; Chen, Yi; Reyes Jara, Angélica (MDPI, 2022)
      Listeria monocytogenes is a major foodborne pathogen that can contaminate food products and colonize food-producing facilities. Foodservice operations (FSOp) are frequently responsible for foodborne outbreaks due to food ...
    • Jaramillo, Ángela M.; Garmendia Miguel, MarÍa Luisa; Muñoz, Patricio; Corbari, Alicia; Valenzuela, Rodrigo; Casanello, Paola (Wiley, 2020)
      The interest in the amount of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in the umbilical cord blood (UCB) is increasing, but the stability of erythrocyte PUFA in these samples during storage and washing of the erythrocytes has ...
    • Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Lera Marques, Lydia; Taibo, Marcela; Espejo, Francisco; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2005-09)
      Background: As a consequence of the epidemiological transition in Chile, the nutritional status of the population has changed notoriously. Aim. To study the changes in the nutritional status of six years-old Chilean children ...
    • Jensen, Melissa L.; Carpentier, Francesca Dillman; Adair, Linda; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Popkin, Barry M.; Taillie, Lindsey Smith (Wiley, 2021)
      Background The Chilean government implemented the first phase of a comprehensive marketing policy in 2016, restricting child-directed marketing of products high in energy, total sugars, sodium or saturated fat (hereafter ...
    • Cabello Andrade, Juan Francisco; Novoa, Fernando; Huff, Hanalise V.; Colombo Campbell, Marta Paulina (MDPI, 2021)
      Newborn screening (NBS) has widely been utilized in developed countries as a costeffective public health strategy that reduces morbidity and mortality. Developing countries, however, are new to the NBS scene and have ...
    • Middleton Santibáñez, Maureen; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel Alonso; Espinoza, Alejandra; Arredondo Olguín, Miguel Armando; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando Dagoberto; Valenzuela Venegas, Carolina Paz (MDPI, 2021)
      Currently, all pigs raised on intensive farms develop iron-deficiency anemia if they do not receive supplemental iron at birth. Weaning diets commonly contain high concentrations of iron, and the effect on the copper and ...