Facultad de Medicina: Recent submissions
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(MDPI, 2022)Objective: To determine the association between the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) score after discharge with 6-min walk test (6MWT) 1 year after discharge in a cohort of COVID-19 survivors. Methods: In this prospective ...
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(MDPI, 2022)Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent age-associated neurodegenerative disease. A decrease in autophagy during aging contributes to brain disorders by accumulating potentially toxic substrates in neurons. Rubicon ...
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(MDPI, 2022)Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and can be treated with glucocorticoids (GC), although some patients are unresponsive to this therapy. The transcription factor LRH-1/NR5A2 is critical to ...
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(MDPI, 2022)Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD) is a common cause of chronic dizziness associated with significant morbidity, and perhaps constitutes the commonest cause of chronic dizziness across outpatient neurology ...
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(MDPI, 2022)Background: Effective treatments for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) include positive pressure, weight loss, oral appliances, surgery, and exercise. Although the involvement of the respiratory muscles in OSA is evident, the ...
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(Springer, 2019)The world population is aging, so it is not uncommon that diseases associated with old age are steadily increasing. Osteoporosis and sarcopenia are two disorders that seriously impair the quality of life in the elderly. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2022)Objetivo: evaluar el impacto de las GES sobre el acceso, por parte de los beneficiarios del FONASA y las ISAPRE, a medicamentos asociados al tratamiento de la hipertensión y la diabetes en Chile, y del FOFAR, por parte ...
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(MDPI, 2022)Lung cancer (LC) is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Tobacco smoke is the most frequent risk factor etiologically associated with LC, although exposures to other environmental factors such as arsenic, radon or ...
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(Royal Society, 2022)MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a group of small non-coding RNAs present in a wide diversity of organisms. MiRNAs regulate gene expression at a post-transcriptional level through their interaction with the 3 ' untranslated regions ...
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(PeerJ, 2022)Background: It has been well established that proprioception plays a decisive role in shoulder stability and sport performance. Notwithstanding, there is a lack of clear association between active joint position sense ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2022)MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs (sRNA), that alter gene expression by binding to target messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and repressing translation. Dysregulated miRNA expression has been implicated in the pathogenesis ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2022)Neonatal pulmonary hypertension (NPHT) is produced by sustained pulmonary vasoconstriction and increased vascular remodeling. Soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) participates in signaling pathways that induce vascular vasodilation ...
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Stigma against people with mental illness in occupational therapy undergraduate students and faculty (Cuba Editorial, 2022)People with mental illness experience stigmatizing attitudes from the general population, including health professionals and students. International studies have estimated the stigma in occupational therapy students towards ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2022)Thy-1 is a cell surface glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored glycoprotein that bears a broad mosaic of biological roles across various cell types. Thy-1 displays strong physiological and pathological implications ...
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(Elsevier, 2022)Introduction: Policy implementation can be affected by what individuals believe to be right and wrong. When implementing abortion policies, providers' moral beliefs can be relevant in the success of the implementation ...
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(BMC, 2022)Background: Atraumatic full thickness rotator cuff tears (AFTRCT) are common lesions whose incidence increases with age. Physical therapy is an effective conservative treatment in these patients with a reported success ...
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(MDPI, 2022)More than 80 million people live and work (in a chronic or intermittent form) above 2500 masl, and 35 million live in the Andean Mountains. Furthermore, in Chile, it is estimated that 100,000 people work in high-altitude ...
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(MDPI, 2022)Simple Summary Caveolin-1 (CAV1) is a membrane protein that has been attributed a dual role in cancer, acting at early stages as a tumor suppressor and in later stages of the disease as a promoter of metastasis. In the ...
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(Springer, 2022)We estimated excess mortality in Chilean cities during the COVID-19 pandemic and its association with city-level factors. We used mortality, and social and built environment data from the SALURBAL study for 21 Chilean ...
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(MDPI, 2022)Simple Summary Bone deformities in the axial skeleton represent a frequent bone pathology in farmed salmonids, affecting the quality of life and even increasing mortality. Bone deformation can affect the formation, repair, ...
