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    • Araya Espinoza, Alejandra (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Departamento de Historia, 2004)
      La autora incorpora la categoría cuerpo en un ejercicio de profunda reflexión para revisar las características de la dominación occidental, fijando su mirada específicamente en el caso de las mujeres coloniales. El concepto ...
    • Nazzal, Carolina; Alonso, Faustino T. (2013)
      Introduction and objectives: Coronary heart disease is the second cause of death in Chilean women, with higher mortality among women, especially at younger ages. The objective was to analyze in-hospital case-fatality by ...
    • Campodónico, Italo; Blümel, Juan E.; Arteaga, Eugenio; Vallejo, María S.; Valdivia, María I. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2018)
      © 2017 by The North American Menopause Society. Objective: This study evaluated whether low bone density, a condition related to aging, is associated with low muscle mass, a surrogate for sarcopenia, and whether it could ...
    • Huertas Zurriaga, Ariadna; Palmieri, Patrick A.; Edwards, Joan E.; Cesario, Sandra K.; Alonso Fernández, Sergio; Pardel Domínguez, Lidia; Domínguez Cancino, Karen Aileen; Leyva Moral, Juan M. (BMC, 2021)
      Background Women living with HIV (WLH) lack evidence-based information about reproductive options while managing pressures from family, clinicians, and communities to give up the idea of having children. As the reproduction ...
    • Blümel, Juan E.; Carrillo Larco, Rodrigo M.; Vallejo, María S.; Chedraui, Peter (Elsevier, 2020)
      Objective: We aimed to evaluate which risk factors in middle-aged women are associated with higher risk of multimorbidity in older age. Study design: We conducted a prospective cohort study from 1990 to 1993 in Santiago ...
    • Arias Téllez, María José; Acosta, Francisco M.; García Rivero, Yolanda; Pascual Gamarra, José; Merchan Ramírez, Elisa; Martínez Téllez, Borja; Silva, Analiza M.; López, Julio Almansa; Llamas Elvira, José; Ruiz, Jonatan (Springer, 2020)
      Objectives Neck adipose tissue (NAT) volume increases with general adiposity, with fat accumulating in different neck tissue compartments. In patients with certain malignant/benign tumours, the accumulation of NAT, and ...
    • Araya Bannout, Marcela; Padilla, Oslando; Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa; Atalah, Eduardo; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2014)
      Background: Women in childbearing ages (WCBA) represent a strategic intervention group to reverse the global trend of increasing obesity. Aim: To conduct a review of studies reporting obesity prevalence in WCBA in Chile ...
    • Jaramillo, Angela; Molina Carrasco, Paulina; Briones, Lautaro; Flores, Sebastián; Olivares, Manuel; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando (Springer, 2018)
      Pectins are a type of soluble fiber present in natural and processed foods. Evidence regarding the effect of esterification degree of pectins on iron absorption in humans is scarce. In the present study, the effect of ...
    • Labraña, Carlos Muñoz; Lara, Nelson Vásquez; Jedlicki, Leonora Reyes (2010)
      This research reports some views and attitudes held by the eighth-graders of elementary education in three regions of Chile. These views and attitudes are related to the State, Democracy and the Civil Society. The results ...
    • Carrasco, Albert; Recabarren, Mónica P.; Rojas García, Pedro P.; Gutiérrez, Mario; Morales, Karina; Sir Petermann, Teresa; Recabarren, Sergio E. (Nature, 2020)
      Hyperandrogenemia and metabolic disturbances during postnatal life are strongly linked both to polycystic ovary syndrome and other conditions that arise from prenatal exposure to androgen excess. In an animal model of this ...
    • Mujica Coopman, María; Brito, Alex; López de Romaña, Daniel; Ríos Castillo, Israel; Cori, Héctor; Olivares, Manuel (SAGE, 2015)
      Background: In Latin America and the Caribbean, anemia has been a public health problem that affects mainly women of childbearing age and children under 6 years of age. However, the current prevalence of anemia in this ...
    • Pereira, Elaine Cristina Alves; Schmitt, Ana Carolina Basso; Cardoso, Maria Regina Alves; Pereira, Wendry Maria Paixão; Lorenzi-Filho, Geraldo; Blumel, Juan Enrique; Aldrighi, José Mendes (Elsevier Editora Ltda, 2012)
      Objective: To estimate the prevalence of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and to identify associated factors in women aged 35 to 49 years from the "Pindamonhangaba Health Project" (PROSAPIN). Methods: This was a ...
    • Ansoleaga, Elisa; Toro, Juan Pablo C; Lorena, Godoy C.; Stecher, Antonio; Blanch, Josep M. (2011)
      Background: The public health reform in Chile resulted in changes in working conditions and organization of health centers. Aim: To examine the presence of psychophysiological symptoms in professionals of public hospitals ...
    • Nicolaides, Kypros H.; Syngelaki, Argyro; Poon, Liona C.; Picciarelli, Gemma; Tul, Natasa; Zamprakou, Aikaterini; Skyfta, Evdoxia; Parra Cordero, Mauro; Palma Días, Ricardo (MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC, 2016)
      BACKGROUND Preterm birth is the leading cause of neonatal and infant death and of disability among survivors. It is unclear whether a pessary inserted around the cervix reduces the risk of preterm singleton birth. ...
    • Salinas Carvacho, Valentina (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, 2016)
      The article analyzes the essay "The influence of women in the formation of the American soul" by Venezuelan writer Teresa de la Parra from a historical, identitarian, and gender point of view. It is suggested that de la ...
    • Rotarou, Elena; Sakellariou, Dikaios (Taylor and Francis, 2019)
      Discourses on successful ageing have changed the way older age is viewed and the possibilities associated with it. However, such discourses do not always take into account differential capacities and resources that may ...
    • Vargas Mora, Pablo; Morgado Carrasco, D. (Elsevier España, 2020)
      La espironolactona es un diurético ahorrador de potasio con efecto antiandrogénico, de bajo coste y con un buen perfil de seguridad. Hemos observado en nuestra experiencia que es un fármaco infrautilizado en dermatología, ...
    • Seijmonsbergen Schermers, Anna E.; van den Akker, Thomas; Rydah, Eva; Beeckman, Katrien; BogaertsI, Annick; Binfa Esbir, Lorena; Frith, Lucy; Gross, Mechthild M.; Misselwitz, Björn; Hálfdánsdóttir, Berglind; Daly, Deirdre; Corcoran, Paul; Calleja Agius, Jean; Calleja, Neville; Gatt, Miriam; Anne, Anne Britt Vika; Declercq, Eugene; Gissler, Mika; Heino, Anna; Lindgren, Helena; de Jonge, Ank (Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2020)
      In this multinational cross-sectional study, existing data on 4,729,307 singleton births at >= 37 weeks in 2013 from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany (Hesse), ...
    • Espinoza Ibacache, Jacqueline; Íñiguez Rueda, Lupicinio (Univ. Católica Norte, Chile, 2020)
      The objective of this article is to identify the practices of vindication of the sexual work from women in Iquique. With this purpose and within the framework of ethnographic research from a feminist ethnomethodological ...
    • Angelcos Gutiérrez, Nicolás; Ísola Sánchez, Enzo (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, 2017)
      This paper attempts to understand the women's integration experience to the great copper mining in Chile. In doing so, we analyzed eight life stories of female workers from the Chuquicamata Division of the State-owned ...