Browsing by Subject "Epidemiology"
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(Sociedad Chilena de Cardiología, 2014)Antecedentes: Uno de los principales predictores de eventos adversos en pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca (IC) es el deterioro de función renal luego de una hospitalización. Estudios recientes han cuestionado la ...
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(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018)© The Author(s) 2017.Accelerating antiretroviral therapy (ART) administration, improving retention, and achieving viral suppression in low- and middle-income countries must be prioritized. We evaluated trends and disparities ...
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(1988)Faecal excretion of enteropathogens was studied in newborns in their first week of life. Rotavirus was investigated in 225 neonates, of whom 107 belonged to the low socio-economic stratum (SES) and 118 to the high SES. ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)© 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All right reserved.Background: Oral cancer in Chile corresponds approximately to 1.6% of all cancer cases. There are few studies about oral epithelial dysplasia and oral squamous cell ...
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(SAGE, 2019)Objective: This study analyzes the dynamic association between retirement sequences and activities of daily living (ADLs) trajectories between ages 60 and 70. Method: Retirement sequences previously established for 7,880 ...
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(1989)Mardones-Restat F (Family Health Unit, Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile), Jones G, Mardones-Santander F, Dachs N, Habicht J-P, and Diaz M. Growth failure prediction in Chile. ...
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(Public Library Science, 2020)Background Coinfections of HIV patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are mayor public health problems, contributing to the emerging burden of HIV-associated hepatic mortality. Coinfection ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)Introduction and objectives: Currently, there are limited data on the epidemiology and disease characteristics of patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) in Latin America. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate ...
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(Microbiology Society, 2017-04)Rotavirus A is one of the main causative agents of diarrhoea in lactating and weaned pigs worldwide. Its impact in the swine industry is well documented. However, in Chile, the current epidemiological status of rotavirus ...
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(2005)Background: The Latin American Collaborative Study for Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC) has detected a higher incidence of Down syndrome in a zone of central Chile than in the rest of the country. Aim: To analyze the ...
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(2013)We detected human bocavirus in 89 (19.3%) of 462 fecal samples collected during 3 periods from 1985 through 2010 from children <5 years of age in Chile who were hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis. Our findings ...
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(2010)Background. Although human papillomavirus (HPV) genome has been detected in lung cancer, its prevalence is highly variable around the world. Higher frequencies have been reported in far-east Asian countries, when compared ...
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(Blackwell, 2014)Objective We aimed to stratify the risk of vascular event recurrence in patients with cerebral infarction according to living and socioeconomic characteristics and geographic region. Method The Outcomes in Patients with ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)© 2017 Rev Med Chile. All right reserved. Background: Sequelae after a stroke are common and may lead to disability. Aphasia-defined as an acquired language disturbance-can cause important limitations in quality of life. ...
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(Elsevier Ltd, 2015)© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Background: Access to combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) is expanding in Latin America (Mexico, Central America, and South America) and the Caribbean. We assessed the incidence of and factors ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2020)Background: Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SSJ) and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (NET) are infrequent and life-threatening mucocutaneous diseases, which occur predominantly as adverse drug reactions. Aim: To describe the frequency ...
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(JOHN WILEY, 2006-02)Study objective and setting The aim of this study is to determine the incidence rate of type 1 diabetes in the metropolitan region of Santiago, Chile from 1 January 1986 to 31 December 2003. Design Population-based incidence ...
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Is the General Health Questionnaire (12 item) a culturally biased measure of psychiatric disorder? (Springer-Verlag, 1995)There have been suggestions that some self-administered questionnaires designed to assess psychiatric disorder tend to overestimate prevalence in samples from Latin America. This phenomenon may be obscured when the General ...
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(2002)Background. Deviant children's development can be understood as maladaptation to social demmands in early tasks. Protective factors have been identified that can influence development towards a positive outcome and risk ...