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Gender, nutritional status and disability-free life expectancy among older people in Santiago, Chile Moreno, Ximena; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Lera Marques, Lydia; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Angel, Bárbara; Sánchez, Hugo (Public Library of Science, 2018)© 2018 Moreno et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original ...
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Burrows, Raquel; Díaz Bustos, Erik; Sciaraffia Merino, Vito Gastón; Gattas, Vivien; Montoya C., Ana; Lera Marques, Lydia (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2008-01)Background: The increased. infantile obesity rates are related to faulty diery intake (DI) and physical activity (PA) habits, that are probably related to a prolonged stay at school during the day. Aim: To investigate DI ...
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Oyarzún, Amaya; Lera Marques, Lydia; Codner Dujovne, Ethel; Carrasco, Elena; Pérez Bravo, Francisco (Elsevier, 2011)Introduction: Deregulation of apoptosis across the Fas–FasL pathway is an increasingly relevant phenomenon in the pathogenic mechanisms associated with autoimmune diseases. Caspase-8 initiates the activation of the ...
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Sánchez, Hugo; Hossain, Mohammad B.; Lera Marques, Lydia; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Broberg, Karin; Ronco Macchiavello, Ana María (BIOMED Central Ltd., 2017)Background: Changes in DNA methylation, one of the most studied epigenetic mechanisms, are considered an initial marker for early cancer detection. We evaluated how availability of dietary factors (folates and vitamin B12) ...
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Ronco Macchiavello, Ana María; Sánchez, Hugo; Lera Marques, Lydia; Hossain, Molfammad Bakhtiar; Broberg, Karin; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Llanos Silva, Miguel (2016)
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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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Matamala, José Manuel; Howells, James; Dharmadasa, Thanuja; Trinh, Terry; Ma, Yan; Lera Marques, Lydia; Vucic, Steve; Burke, David; Kiernan, Matthew C. (Elsevier, 2018)Paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) using fixed test stimuli suffers from marked variability of the motor evoked potential (MEP) amplitude. Threshold tracking TMS (TT-TMS) was introduced to overcome this ...
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Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Santos, José Luis; Cifuentes, Mariana; Villarroel, Ana C.; Lera Marques, Lydia; Liberman Guendelman, Claudio; Ángel Badillo, Bárbara; Pérez Bravo, Francisco (NORTH AMER ASSOC STUDY OBESITY, 2004-02)Objective: To assess the association between the Ala54Thr genetic polymorphism of the fatty acid-binding protein 2 (FABP2) gene with insulin resistance and obesity. Research Methods and Procedures: According to a sampling ...
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Pérez Bravo, Francisco; Fuentes, M.; Ángel Badillo, Bárbara; Sánchez, H.; Carrasco, Elena; Santos, J. L.; Lera Marques, Lydia; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (SPRINGER, 2006-12)The aim of this study was to assess the frequency of fatty acid binding protein 2 (FABP2) Ala54Thr genetic polymorphism and to evaluate its association with obesity and insulin resistance in Chilean aboriginal populations. ...
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Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Ángel Badillo, Bárbara Karen; Lera Marques, Lydia; Sánchez Reyes, Hugo; Márquez, Carlos; Fuentes Guglielmetti, Patricio Alberto (2016)Objective: The aim was to study the role of leptin in the development of dementia. Methods: Follow-up of the ALEXANDROS cohorts, with baseline measurements in 2000. From 1,136 available subjects free of dementia at baseline, ...
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Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás; Lera Marques, Lydia; Fuentes García, Alejandra; Salinas Cubillos, Judith (Aula Médica Ediciones, 2016)Objective: To know nutrition, education and gastronomic expert opinion to get consensus about education methodologies in healthy food topics for third to fifth school-age children, their parents and teachers, with the ...
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Lera Marques, Lydia; Sánchez, H.; Ángel Badillo, Bárbara; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (Springer, 2016)To validate the short-form of the MNA (MNA-SF) and the cut-off point of 31 cm for calf circumference (CC) in older people in Latin America. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 5,722 community-dwelling older ...
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Olivares Cortés, Sonia; Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Lera Marques, Lydia; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás; Morón, C. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2004-09)Objective: To assess the nutritional status, food consumption and physical activity (PA) habits of Chilean school children, as a baseline for developing an educational intervention. Design: Cross-sectional study. Subjects: ...
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Fuentes García, Alejandra; Lera Marques, Lydia; Sánchez, Hugo; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (The Gerodontology Society and John Wiley & Sons, 2013)Oral health-related quality of life of older people from three South American cities Objective: To describe subjective oral health status and its association with overall health conditions and socioeconomic factors in ...
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Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Lera Marques, Lydia; Angel Badillo, Bárbara Karen; Sánchez, H.; Márquez Jara, Carlos; Arroyo Albala, Patricia (Springer, 2017)
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Burrows, Raquel; Burgueño, Medardo; Leiva, Laura; Ceballos, Ximena; Guillier, Ivette; Gattas, Vivien; Lera Marques, Lydia; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2005-07)Background: Infantile obesity is associated with metabolic disturbances (hiperinsulinism, impaired glucose, dislipidemia) that determine a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and atherosclerotic vascular ...
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Lera Marques, Lydia; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Angel Badillo, Bárbara Karen; Sánchez Reyes, Hugo; Picrin, Yaisy; Hormázabal, María José; Quiero, Andrea (2014)Objetivos: Desarrollar un modelo antropométrico de predicción de masa muscular apendicular esquelética (MMAE), en adultos mayores chilenos. Metodos: La muestra estudiada corresponde a 616 adultos > 60 anos (69,9 +- 5,2 ...
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Olivares, Manuel; Lera Marques, Lydia; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Araya, Magdalena (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2011-03)Background: Older subjects have a high risk of developing zinc and copper deficiencies. Aim: To determine the prevalence of copper and zinc deficiencies in adults aged over 60 years, living in Metropolitan Santiago. Subjects ...
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Lera Marques, Lydia; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Márquez Jara, Carlos; Angel Badillo, Bárbara Karen; Saguez, Rodrigo; Sánchez, Hugo (Dove Medical Press, 2018)Aim: This study was aimed to set reference values of hand-grip strength by age and sex and validate cut points for risk of functional limitation and mortality in older Chileans. Methods: This was a pooled analysis of ...
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Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Gahagan, Sheila; Díaz Bustos, Erik; Blanco, Estela; Leiva, Laura; Lera Marques, Lydia; Burrows, Raquel (2011)The mild chronic inflammatory state associated with obesity may be an important link between adiposity and insulin resistance (IR). In a sample of 137 overweight and obese Chilean adolescents, we assessed associations between ...