Browsing by Subject "Epidemiology"

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    • Comparative analysis of a(H1N1) influenza epidemiological dynamics in Chile Análisis comparado de la dinámica ... 
      Mauricio Canals, (2010)
      In order to increase awareness of the pandemic and to streamline control measures before any new outbreak of influenza we analyze the behavior of the cases of Chile and from 9 countries with more cases in 2009. Reproductive ...
    • Considerations on the new chilean law about rights and duties of patients Reflexiones en torno a la ley N° ... 
      Sepúlveda Valenzuela, Sergio; Aliaga, Verónica; Burdiles, Patricio; Carvallo, Aurelio; Díaz, Eduardo; Guerrero, Manuel; Rueda, Laura; Valenzuel, Carlos (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)
      © 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved.After years of discussion by the Chilean legislature, the Law Nº 20.584, which regulates health care related rights and duties of people, entered into force in Chile ...
    • Correlations, agreement and utility of frailty instruments in prevalent haemodialysis patients: baseline ... 
      Anderson, Benjamin M.; Qasim, Muhammad; Correa, Gonzalo; Evison, Felicity; Gallier, Suzy; Ferro, Charles J.; Jackson, Thomas A.; Sharif, Adnan (Oxford, 2022)
      Background. Frailty is associated with poor outcomes for haemodialysis patients, but its prevalence is uncertain due to heterogeneous definitions. The aim of this study was to compare and contrast prevalence and features ...
    • Course of hypochondriasis in an international primary care study 
      Simon, Gregory E.; Gureje, Oye; Fullerton, Claudio (2001)
      Hypochondriasis is frequently defined as a chronic condition distinct from anxiety and depressive disorders. Consecutive primary care attenders (n=25, 916) were screened using the General Health Questionnaire and a stratified ...
    • Cryptococcus bacillisporus (VGIII) Meningoencephalitis Acquired in Santa Cruz, Bolivia 
      Thompson, Luis; Porte, Lorena; Díaz, Violeta; Díaz Jarabran, María Cristina; Solar, Sebastián; Valenzuela, Pablo; Norley, Nicole; Pires, Yumai; Carreño, Fernando; Valenzuela, Sergio; Shabani, Rukmane; Rickerts, Volker; Weitzel, Thomas Fritz (MDPI, 2021)
      We describe a case of chronic meningoencephalitis with hydrocephalus caused by Cryptococcus bacillisporus (VGIII) in an immunocompetent patient from Santa Cruz, Bolivia. This first report of a member of the Cryptococcus ...
    • Cryptosporidium hominis infection of the human respiratory tract 
      Mercado, Rubén; Buck, Gregory A.; Manque, Patricio A.; Ozaki, Luiz Shozo (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2007)
      Cryptosporidium oocysts, observed in a natural sputum sample of a patient with HIV, were further studied by using DNA markers to determine the species of the parasite. C. hominis was identified as the species infecting the ...
    • Deaths due to oral cancer in Chile in the period 2002-2012 Mortalidad por cáncer oral en Chile, 2002-2012 
      Candia, Jorge; Fernández, Alejandra; Somarriva, Carolina; Horna-Campos, Olivia (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)
      © 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Oral cancer is the 15th most common cause of cancer death in the world. In Chile, 1% of all cancer deaths are related to oral and pharyngeal cancer. ...
    • Dementia in Latin America: Epidemiological Evidence and Implications for Public Policy 
      Custodio, Nilton; Wheelock, Ana; Thumala Dockendorff, Daniela Cecilia; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea (Frontiers media SA, 2017)
      Population aging is among the most important global transformations. Today, 12% of the world population is of age 60 and over and by the middle of this century this segment will represent 21.5%. The increase in population ...
    • Dementia in Latin America: paving the way toward a regional action plan 
      Parra, Mario Alfredo; Báez, Sandra; Sedeño, Lucas; González Campo, Cecilia; Santamaría García, Hernando; Aprahamian, Iván; Bertolucci, Paulo H. F.; Bustin, Julián; Camargos Bicalho, María Aparecida; Cano Gutiérrez, Carlos; Caramelli, Paulo; Chaves, Marcia L. F.; Cogram, Patricia; Costa Beber, Bárbara; Court, Felipe A.; Cruz de Souza, Leonardo; Custodio, Nilton; Damián, Andrés; Cruz, Myriam de la; Rodríguez, Roberta Diehl; Dozzi Brucki, Sonia María; Fajersztajn, Lais; Farías Gontupil, Gonzalo Andrés; Felice, Fernanda G. de; Ferrari, Raffaele; Ferreira de Oliveira, Fabricio; Ferreira, Sergio T.; Ferretti, Ceres; Figueredo Balthazar, Marcio Luiz; Ferreira Frota, Norberto Anizio; Fuentes, Patricio; García, Adolfo A.; García, Patricia J.; De Gobbi Porto, Fábio Henrique; Duque Peñailillo, Lissette; Engler, HenryWilly; Maier, Irene; Mata, Ignacio F.; González Billault, Christian; López, Oscar L.; Morelli, Laura; Nitrini, Ricardo; Quiroz, Yakeel T.; Guerrero Barragán, Alejandra; Huepe, David; Pio, Fabricio Joao; Kimie Suemoto, Claudia; Kochhann, Renata; Kochen, Silvia; Kumfor, Fiona; Lanata, Serggio; Miller, Bruce; Mansur, Leticia Lessa; Hosogi, Mirna Lie; Lillo, Patricia; Guerra, Jorge Llibre; Lira, David; Lopera, Francisco; Comas, Adelina; Ávila Funes, José Alberto; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Ramos, Claudia; França Resende, Elisa de Paula; Snyder, Heather M.; Tarnanas, Ioannis; Yokoyama, Jenifer; Llibre, Juan; Cardona, Juan Felipe; Possin, Kate; Kosik, Kenneth S.; Montesinos, Rosa; Moguilner, Sebastián; Solís, Patricia Cristina Lourdes; Ferretti Rebustini, Renata Eloah de Lucena; Ramírez, Jerónimo Martin; Matallana, Diana; Mbakile Mahlanza, Lingani; Marques Ton, Alyne Mendonça; Tavares, Ronnielly Melo; Miotto, Eliane C.; Muniz Terrera, Graciela; Muñoz Nevárez, Luis Arnoldo; Orozco, David; De Oliveira, Maira Okada; Piguet, Olivier; Caipa, Maritza Pintado; Piña Escudero, Stefanie Danielle; Schilling, Lucas Porcello; Rodrigues Palmeira, André Luiz; Sanches Yassuda, Mônica; Santacruz Escudero, José Manuel; Serafim, Rodrigo Bernardo; Smid, Jerusa; Slachevsky, Andrea; Serrano, Cecilia; Soto Añari, Marcio; Takada, Leonel Tadao; Grinberg, Lea Tenenholz; Teixeira, Antonio Lucio; Barbosa, Maira Tonidandel; Trépel, Dominic; Ibáñez, Agustín (Wiley, 2021)
      Across Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACs), the fight against dementia faces pressing challenges, such as heterogeneity, diversity, political instability, and socioeconomic disparities. These can be addressed ...
    • Development of the Standards of Reporting of Neurological Disorders (STROND) checklist A guideline for the ... 
      Bennett, Derrick A.; Brayne, Carol; Feigin, Valery L.; Barker Collo, Suzanne; Brainin, Michael; Davis, Daniel; Gallo, Valentina; Jette, Nathalie; Karch, Andre; Kurtzke, John F.; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Logroscino, Giancarlo; Nagel, Gabriele; Preux, Pierre-Marie; Rothwell, Peter M.; Svenson, Lawrence W. (Lippicott Williams & Wilkins, 2015)
      Background: Incidence and prevalence studies of neurologic disorders play an important role in assessing the burden of disease and planning services. However, the assessment of disease estimates is hindered by problems in ...
    • Development of the standards of reporting of neurological disorders (STROND) checklist: a guideline for the ... 
      Bennett, Derrick A.; Brayne, Carol; Feigin, Valery L.; Barker Collo, Suzanne; Brainin, Michael; Davis, Daniel; Gallo, Valentina; Jetté, Nathalie; Karch, André; Kurtzke, John F.; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Logroscino, Giancarlo; Nagel, Gabriele; Preux, Pierre-Marie; Rothwell, Peter M.; Svenson, Lawrence W. (Springer, 2015)
      Incidence and prevalence studies of neurological disorders play an important role in assessing the burden of disease and planning services. However, the assessment of disease estimates is hindered by problems in reporting ...
    • Distribución de la COVID-19 y tuberculosis en la Región Metropolitana de Chile: diferentes enfermedades, ... 
      Olmos, Claudio; Stuardo Ávila, Valeria (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2020)
      Background: Poor living conditions promote the spread of communicable diseases. It happened with Tuberculosis (TB) and is happening with COVID-19. Due to its dynamic nature, this group of diseases must be studied in the ...
    • Dolor lumbar: revisión y evidencia de tratamiento 
      Santos, Cristián; Donoso, Rodrigo; Ganga Villagrán, Marcos; Eugenin, Óscar; Lira, Fernando; Santelices, Juan Pablo (Elsevier, 2020)
      El dolor lumbar corresponde a uno de los síntomas más prevalentes en la humanidad, siendo la segunda causa más frecuente de atención médica a nivel mundial. Existen diversos enfoques de diagnóstico y tratamiento para dolor ...
    • Epidemiologic and Histopathologic Characterization of Cutaneous Metastases in Patients Who Visited 2 Hospitals ... 
      Kaplan, V.; Morales, C.; Bobadilla, F.; Fernández, J.; Segovia, L.; Vera, V.; Sanhueza, I. (Elsevier Doyma, 2019)
      © 2018 AEDVBackground and objective: Cutaneous metastases (CMs) account for 2% of skin tumors and their incidence varies between 0.7% and 9% in patients with cancer. The objective of this study was to describe and analyze ...
    • Epidemiology of gastric cancer in chile: I - case-control study 
      Armijo, Rolando; Orellana, Marcial; Medina, Ernesto; Coulson, Anne H.; Sayre, James W.; Detels, Roger (1981)
      Armijo R [Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA], Orellana M, Medina E, Coulson AH, Sayre JW and Detels R. Epidemiology of gastric cancer In Chile: ...
    • Epidemiology of gastric cancer in Chile: II - nitrate exposures and stomach cancer frequency 
      Armijo, Rolando; Gonzalez, Ada; Orellana, Marcial; Coulson, Anne H.; Sayre, James W.; Detels, Roger (1981)
      Armijo R [Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA], Gonzalez A, Orellana M, Coulson AH, Sayre JW and Detels R. The epidemiology of gastric cancer in Chile: ...
    • Epidemiology of migraine headache in Santiago, Chile: A prevalence study 
      Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Tenhamm, E. (1997)
      Objective. To describe the importance of migraine in Santiago, Chile, by analyzing its prevalence, clinical features and impact by age, gender and socioeconomic status. Methods. In 1993, a representative sample of 1,540 ...
    • Epidemiology of tension-type headache in Santiago, Chile: A prevalence study 
      Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Tenhamm, E. (1998)
      Objective: To describe the importance of tension-type headache (TTH) in Santiago, Chile, by analyzing its prevalence, clinical features, and impact by age, gender, and socioeconomic status, using widely accepted international ...
    • Epidemiology of Vibrio parahaemolyticus outbreaks, Southern Chile 
      Harth, Erika; Matsuda, Luis; Hernández, Cristina; Rioseco, Maria L.; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime; González Escalona, Narjol; Martínez Urtaza, Jaime; Espejo Torres, Romilio (2009)
      Disease outbreaks caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Puerto Montt, Chile, began in 2004 and reached a peak in 2005 at 3,600 clinical cases. Until 2006, every analyzed case was caused by the serovar O3:K6 pandemic strain. ...
    • Epigenome-wide analysis of methylation changes in the sequence of gallstone disease, dysplasia, and gallbladder ... 
      Brägelmann, Johannes; Barahona Ponce, Carol Mariom; Marcelain Cubillos, Katherine Jenny; Roessler, Stephanie; Goeppert, Benjamín; Gallegos, Iván; Colombo, Alicia; Sanhueza, Verónica; Morales, Erik; Rivera, María Teresa; Toro, Gonzalo de; Ortega, Alejandro; Müller, Bettina; Gabler, Fernando; Scherer, Dominique; Waldenberger, Melanie; Reischl, Eva; Boekstegers, Félix; Garate Calderón, Valentina; Umu, Sinan U.; Rounge, Trine B.; Popanda, Odilia; Bermejo, Justo Lorenzo (Wiley, 2021)
      BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is a highly aggressive malignancy of the biliary tract. Most cases of GBC are diagnosed in low-income and middle-income countries, and research into this disease has long ...