Browsing by Subject "Latin America"

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    • Active surveillance of candidemia in children from latin america: A key requirement for improving disease outcome 
      Santolaya de Pablo, María Elena; Alvarado, Tito; Queiroz-Telles, Flavio; Colombo, Arnaldo L.; Zurita, Jeanette; Tiraboschi, Iris N.; Cortes, Jorge Alberto; Thompson, Luis; Guzman, Manuel; Sifuentes, Jose; Echevarría, Juan I.; Nucci, Marcio (2014)
      BACKGROUND:: Active surveillance is necessary for improving the management and outcomes of patients with candidemia. The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiologic and clinical features of candidemia in pediatric ...
    • Adaptación a la realidad de Latinoamérica de la guía clínica NASPGHAN/ESPGHAN 2016 sobre Diagnóstico, ... 
      Harris, Paul R.; Calderón Guerrero, Otto Gerardo; Vera Chamorro, José Fernando; Lucero Álvarez, Yalda; Vásquez, Margarita; Kazuo Ogata, Silvio; Angulo, Diana; Madrazo, Armando; Gonzales, José; Rivero, Anelsy; Gana, Juan Cristóbal (Sociedad Chilena de Pediatría, 2020)
      Introducción: Las últimas guías clínicas conjuntas de NASPGHAN y ESPGHAN en relación a la infección por H. pylori publicadas el año 2016, contienen 20 afirmaciones que han sido cuestionadas en la práctica respecto a su ...
    • Adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean: systematic review and meta-analysis 
      Blanco, Estela; Marin, Marcela; Núñez, Loreto; Retamal, Erika; Ossa, Ximena; Woolley, Katherine E.; Oludotun, Tosin; Bartington, Suzanne E.; Delgado Saborit, Juana María; Harrison, Roy M.; Ruiz Rudolph, Pablo Alejandro; Quinteros, María Elisa (Pan American Health Organization, 2022)
      Objective. To estimate the point prevalence and likely ranges of pregnancy-induced hypertension, pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, low birth weight and preterm delivery in Latin America and the Caribbean, and evaluate ...
    • Age at menopause in Latin America 
      Blümel, Juan E.; Chedraui, Peter; Calle, Andrés; Bocanera, Roberto; Depiano, Eduardo; Figueroa-Casas, Pedro; Gonzalez, Carlos; Martino, Mabel; Royer, Monique; Zuñiga, Cristina; Dulon, Alfredo; Espinoza, María T.; Futchner, Carlos; Mostajo, Desireé; Soto, Edwin; Marco, A (2006)
      OBJECTIVE: To assess the age at menopause (AM) in Latin America urban areas. DESIGN: A total of 17,150 healthy women, aged 40 to 59 years, accompanying patients to healthcare centers in 47 cities of 15 Latin American ...
    • An international, multicenter, retrospective study on the positive impact of cutaneous involvement on the ... 
      Malpica, Luis; Castro, Denisse; Enríquez, Daniel J.; Oviedo Pecho, Roberto; Paña, Camila; Idrobo, Henry; Fiad, Lorena; Prates, María; Valcarcel, Bryan; Paredes, Antonio; Sánchez, Gadwyn; Moisés, Celia; Castillo, Jorge J.; Villela, Luis; Ramos, Juan C.; Biglione, Mirna; Beltrán, Brady E. (Taylor & Francis, 2022)
      Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) is a largely incurable disease. Cutaneous involvement is common and could be first symptom of the disease. We analyzed 169 patients with ATLL of whom 63 had cutaneous involvement. ...
    • Antiretroviral therapy and Kaposi’s sarcoma trends and outcomes among adults with HIV in Latin America 
      Castilho, Jessica L.; Kim, Ahra; Jenkins, Cathy A.; Grinsztejn, Beatriz; Gotuzzo, Eduardo; Fink, Valeria; Padgett, Denis; Belaunzaran Zamudio, Pablo F.; Crabtree Ramírez, Brenda; Escuder, María Mercedes; Souza, Rosa Alencar; Tenore, Simone B.; Pimentel, Sidnei R.; Rodrigues Ikeda, María Leticia; De Alencastro, Paulo R.; Tupinanbas, Unai; Brites, Carlos; Luz, Estela; Netto, Juliana; Cortes, Claudia P.; Grangeiro, Alexandre; Shepherd, Bryan; McGowan, Catherine C. (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
      Introduction: Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) remains the most frequent malignancy in persons living with HIV (PWH) in Latin America. We examined KS trends and outcomes from Latin American clinical sites in the era of increased ...
    • Are research priorities in Latin America in line with the nutritional problems of the population? 
      Llanos, Adolfo; Troncoso Oyarzún, María Teresa; Bonvecchio, Anabelle; Rivera, Juan; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (2008)
      Objective: Concordance of nutritional research priorities with the related burden of disease is essential to develop cost-effective interventions to address the nutritional problems of populations. The present study aimed ...
    • Assessing the HIV Care Continuum in Latin America: progress in clinical retention, cART use and viral suppression 
      Rebeiro, Peter F.; César, Carina; Shepherd, Bryan E.; De Boni, Raquel B.; Cortés Moncada, Claudia; Rodríguez, Fernanda (Int Aids Society, 2016)
      Introduction: We assessed trends in HIV Care Continuum outcomes associated with delayed disease progression and reduced transmission within a large Latin American cohort over a decade: clinical retention, combination ...
    • Assessing the impact of clinical coordination interventions on the continuity of care for patients with ... 
      Espinel Flores, Verónica; Vargas, Ingrid; Eguiguren Bravo, Ana Pamela; Mogollon Pérez, Amparo Susana; Ferreira de Medeiros Mendes, Marina; López Vázquez, Julieta; Bertolotto, Fernando; Vazquez, María Luisa (Oxford, 2022)
      Although fragmentation in the provision of services is considered an obstacle to effective health care, there is scant evidence on the impact of interventions to improve care coordination between primary care and secondary ...
    • Assessment of the implementation of the model of integrated and humanised midwifery health services in Chile 
      Binfa Esbir, Lorena; Pantoja Manzanarez, Loreto; Ortiz Contreras, Jovita; Gurovich Albala, Marcela; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel; Foster, Jennifer (Elsevier, 2016-04)
      Objective: in 2010, a pilot study was conducted among women who were attended by midwives in the public sector in Santiago, Chile. The purpose of that study was to evaluate the implementation of the 'Model of Integrated ...
    • Association between anxiety and severe quality-of-life impairment in postmenopausal women: analysis of a ... 
      Nuñez Pizarro, Jorge L.; González Luna, Alejandro; Mezones Holguín, Edward; Blumel Méndez, Juan; Barón, Germán; Bencosme, Ascanio; Benítez, Zully; Bravo, Luz M.; Calle, Andrés; Flores, Daniel; Espinoza, María T.; Gómez, Gustavo; Hernández Bueno, José A.; Martino, Mabel; Lima, Selva; Monterrosa, Álvaro; Mostajo, Desiree; Ojeda, Eliana; Onatra, William; Sánchez, Hugo; Tserotas, Konstantinos; Vallejos, María S.; Witis, Silvina; Zúñiga, María C.; Chedraui, Peter (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2017-06)
      Objective: To evaluate associations between anxiety and severe impairment of quality of life (QoL) in Latin American postmenopausal women. Methods: This was a secondary analysis of a multicenter cross-sectional study ...
    • Biosimilars in psoriasis: Clinical practice and regulatory perspectives in Latin America 
      de la Cruz, Claudia; de Carvhalo, André; Dorantes, Gladys; Londoño García, Angela; González, César; Maskin, Matías; Podoswa, Nancy; Redfern, Jan; Valenzuela Ahumada, Fernando; van der Walt, Joelle; Romiti, Ricardo (Wiley Blackwell, 2016)
      Latin American countries view biosimilar agents as an effective approach to curtail health-care expenditures while maintaining the safety and efficacy profile of their branded innovator comparators. To understand the ...
    • Can care coordination across levels be improved through the implementation of participatory action research ... 
      Vargas, Ingrid; Eguiguren Bravo, Ana; Mogollon Pérez, Amparo Susana; Samico, Isabella; Bertolotto, Fernando; López Vázquez, Julieta; Vázquez, María Luisa (BMC, 2020)
      BackgroundFinding new strategies for care integration has become a policy priority for many fragmented health systems in Latin America. Although the implementation of interventions through a participatory action research ...
    • Cancer in HIV-infected persons from the caribbean, central and South America 
      Fink, Valeria I.; Shepherd, Bryan E.; Cesar, Carina; Krolewiecki, Alejandro; Wehbe, Firas; Cortés, Claudia P.; Ramírez, Brenda Crabtree; Padgett, Denis; Shafaee, Maryam; Schechter, Mauro; Gotuzzo, Eduardo; Bacon, Melanie; McGowan, Catherine C.; Cahn, Pedro; Masys, Daniel (2011)
      Background: HIV-infected individuals have heightened cancer risk. With the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), the frequency of some AIDS-defining cancers (ADC) has decreased although certain non-AIDS-defining ...
    • Características clínicas y epidemiológicas de la infección por VIH en inmigrantes latinoamericanos versus ... 
      Rodríguez, M. Fernanda; Wolff Reyes, Marcelo; Cortés Moncada, Claudia (SOC CHILENA INFECTOLOGIA, 2015)
      Background: There has been an increasing number of immigrants to Chile in the last years, especially from South American countries. The phenomenon of immigration and its consequences has been studied by international literature, ...
    • Cardiovascular pharmacogenomics: Clinical applications in Latin America 
      Roco, Ángela M.; Quiñones, Luis A.; Miranda, Carla E. (Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2017)
      © 2011 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the number one cause of death globally. Most cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by addressing behavioral risk factors ...
    • Care continuity across levels of care perceived by patients with chronic conditions in six Latin-American countries 
      Ollé Espluga, Laia; Vargas, Igrid; Mogollón Pérez, Amparo; Freitas Soares de Jesús, Renata Patricia; Eguiguren Bravo, Ana Pamela; Cisneros, Angélica Ivonne; Muruaga, María Cecilia; Huerta, Adriana; Bertolotto, Fernando; Vázquez, María Luisa (Elsevier, 2021)
      Objective: To analyse the care continuity across levels of care perceived by patients with chronic conditions in public health care networks in six Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and ...
    • Changes in diet quality over 10 years of nutrition transition in Colombia: analysis of the 2005 and 2015 ... 
      Mora García, Gustavo; Ruiz Díaz, María Stephany; Villegas Ríos, Rodrigo; García Larsen, Vanessa (Springer, 2020)
      Objectives To describe the changes in diet quality in Colombians using nationally representative samples from the 2005 and 2015 nutrition surveys. Methods Repeated cross-sectional analyses of the National Nutrition Surveys ...
    • Characterization of individuals at high risk of developing melanoma in Latin America: bases for genetic ... 
      Puig, Susana; Potrony, Miriam; Cuellar, Francisco; Puig Butille, Joan Anton; Carrera, Cristina; Aguilera, Paula; Nagore, Eduardo; García Casado, Zaida; Requena, Celia; Kumar, Rajiv; Landman, Gilles; Soares de Sa, Bianca Costa; Rezze, Gisele Gargantini; Facure, Luciana; Ribeiro de Avila, Alexandre Leon; Achatz, María Isabel; Carraro, Dirce María; Duprat Neto, Joao Pedreira; Grazziotin, Thais C.; Bonamigo, Renan R.; Rey, Maria Carolina W.; Balestrini, Claudia; Morales, Enrique; Molgo, Montserrat; Bakos, Renato Marchiori; Ashton Prolla, Patricia; Giugliani, Roberto; Borges, Alejandra Larre; Barquet, Virginia; Pérez, Javiera; Martínez, Miguel; Horacio, Cabo; Sabban, Emilia Cohen; Latorre, Clara; Carlos Ortega, Blanca; Salas Alanis, Julio C.; González, Roger; Olazaran, Zulema; Malvehy, Josep; Badenas, Celia (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      Purpose: CDKN2A is the main high-risk melanoma-susceptibility gene, but it has been poorly assessed in Latin America. We sought to analyze CDKN2A and MC1R in patients from Latin America with familial and sporadic multiple ...
    • Climate change and environmental health in undergraduate health degrees in Latin America 
      Palmeiro SilvaI, Yasna K.; Ferrada, María Teresa; Ramírez Flores, Jorge Andrés; Silva Santa Cruz, Ignacio (Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil, 2021)
      OBJECTIVE: Analyze the incorporation of climate change and environmental health courses in the curriculum grids of Medicine, Nursing, Nutrition and Clinical Psychology undergraduate courses in Latin American universities ...