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Vásquez Vergara, Fabián; Díaz Bustos, Erik; Lera Marques, Lydia; Meza, Jorge; Salas, Isabel; Rojas, Pamela; Atalah, Eduardo; Burrows, Raquel (2013)Introduction: The physical exercise is an important therapeutic tool to prevent and treat obesity, as well as reducing metabolic alterations and the risk of non-communicable diseases. Objective: To evaluate the impact of ...
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Vásquez Vergara, Fabián; Díaz Bustos, Erik; Lera Marques, Lydia; Meza, Jorge; Salas, Isabel; Rojas Mondaca, Pamela; Atalah Samur, Eduardo; Burrows, Raquel (2013)Introducción: El ejercicio físico es una importante herramienta terapéutica para prevenir y tratar la obesidad y disminuir las alteraciones metabólicas asociadas al desarrollo de las enfermedades crónicas no ...
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Correa-Burrows, Paulina; Rodriguez, Yanina; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila; Burrows, Raquel (MDPI AG, 2018)© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. We explored the association between excess body fat and academic performance in high school students from Santiago, Chile. In 632 16-year-olds (51% males) from ...
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Doom, Jenalee R.; Reid, Brie M.; Blanco, Estela; Burrows, Raquel; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila (Mosby Inc., 2019)Objective: To prospectively assess whether the infant psychosocial environment was associated with cardiometabolic risk as early as adolescence. Study design: Participants were recruited in Santiago, Chile, and have been ...
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Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Díaz Bustos, Erik; Lera Marques, Lydia; Burrows, Raquel (2011)Background: In the last decades, a seven to nine fold increase in the prevalence of teenage obesity and overweight has occurred. Aim: To assess energy intake and metabolism in a sample of overweight and obese adolescents. ...
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Correa-Burrows, Paulina; Blanco, Estela; Reyes, Marcela; Castillo, Marcela; Peirano, Patricio; Algarín, Cecilia; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila; Burrows, Raquel (BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)Objective: Leptin is a pleiotropic hormone associated with learning and memory via brain receptors. However, elevated plasma leptin levels may impair cognitive and memory functions. Since individual differences in memory ...
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Correa Burrows, María Paulina; Blanco, Estela; Reyes, M.; Castillo, M.; Lozoff, B.; Gahagan, S.; Burrows, Raquel (Karger, 2015)
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Cheng, Evaline; Burrows, Raquel; Correa, Paulina; Güichapani, Carmen Gloria; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila (Springer-Verlag Italia s.r.l., 2019)© 2019, Springer-Verlag Italia S.r.l., part of Springer Nature.Aims: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases. While cigarette smoking is associated with MetS in adults, young ...
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Vásquez Vergara, Fabián; Díaz Bustos, Erik; Lera Marques, Lydia; Vásquez, Loretta; Anziani, Alyerina; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Burrows, Raquel (2013)Introduction: In Chile, the main nutritional problem of children, is obesity. The alarming increase in childhood obesity, has generated an urgent need to develop prevention and treatment programs, unfortunately, the results ...
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Burrows, Raquel; Correa Burrows, María Paulina; Guichapani, Carmen Gloria; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila (Karger, 2017)
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Blanco, Estela; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Burrows, Raquel; Martínez, Suzanna M.; Gahagan, Sheila (Blackwell, 2011)This study aimed to report on a high prevalence of low bone mineral density (BMD) and to explore the relationship between BMD, sex and body composition among a cohort of Chilean adolescents.
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Burrows, Raquel; Correa Burrows, María Paulina; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Blanco, Estela; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Gahagan, S. (Wiley, 2017)BackgroundIncreased cardiometabolic risk (CMR) is documented in obese and non-obese adolescents with low muscular fitness. However, the association of low muscle mass (LMM) with CMR, independent of weight status, has not ...
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Marijuana use associated with worse verbal learning and delayed recall in a sample of young adults Laspada, Natalia; Delker, Erin; Blanco, Estela; Encina, Pamela; Caballero, Gabriela; Delva, Jorge; Burrows, Raquel; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2019)Background: There is concern about the cognitive consequences of marijuana consumption. Aim: To assess the influence of current and past marijuana use and frequency on verbal learning and memory in a sample of adults aged ...
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Burrows, Raquel; Cárdenas, T.; Correa Burrows, María Paulina (Karger, 2015)
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Vásquez Vergara, Fabián; Díaz Bustos, Erik; Lera Marques, Lydia; Vásquez, L.; Anziani, Alyerina; Burrows, Raquel (2012)Introduction: In Chile, the prevalence of obesity in schoolchildren is 21.3%. The study and individual intervention of this malnutrition, it is necessary to have not only global indicators of nutritional status, but also ...
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Correa-Burrows, Paulina; Burrows, Raquel; Blanco, Estela; Reyes, Marcela; Gahagan, Sheila (World Health Organization, 2016)© 2016, World Health Organization. All rights reserved.Objective To explore associations between the nutritional quality of diet at age 16 years and academic performance in students from Santiago, Chile. Methods We assessed ...
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Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Quintanilla, Cristina; Burrows, Raquel; Blanco, Estela; Cifuentes, Mariana; Gahagan, Sheila (Wiley, 2015)Background: Obesity is associated with a mild chronic inflammatory response, which has been suggested to be pivotal in the development of cardiometabolic alterations of obesity. However, little is known about the involvement ...
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Martinez, Suzanna M.; Blanco, Estela; Delva, Jorge; Burrows, Raquel; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila (Elsevier, 2014)Purpose: Studies report an association between neighborhood risk and both obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors (CMR) among adolescents. Here we describe the effect of perceived neighborhood risk on adiposity and CMR ...
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Correa Burrows, Paulina; Burrows, Raquel; Ibaceta, Camila; Orellana Zapata, Yasna; Ivanovic Marincovich, Daniza (Oxford University Press, 2017-04)We examined the association between the engagement in regular physical activity (PA) and the academic performance (AP) of school-age children from Santiago Metropolitan Region. In a random sample of 1271 students (13.3 +/- ...
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Gahagan, Sheila; Delker, Erin; Blanco, Estela; Burrows, Raquel; Lozoff, Betsy (Mosby-Elsevier, 2019)Objectives: To test differences in cognitive outcomes among adolescents randomly assigned previously as infants to iron-fortified formula or low-iron formula as part of an iron deficiency anemia prevention trial. Study ...