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    • Blümel, Juan E.; Chedraui, Peter; Aedo Monsalve, Sócrates; Fica, Juan; Mezones Holguín, Edward; Barón, Germán; Bencosme, Ascanio; Benítez, Zully; Bravo, Luz M.; Calle, Andrés; Flores, Daniel; Espinoza, María T.; Gómez, Gustavo; Hernández-Bueno, José A.; Laribezcoa, Fiorella; Mar (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2015)
      © 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.Background The prevalence of obesity increases during female mid-life and although many factors have been identified, data from Latin America is lacking. Objective To assess ...
    • Blümel Méndez, Juan; Chedraui, Peter; Aedo Monsalve, Sócrates; Fica, Juan; Mezones Holguín, Edward; Barón, Germán; Bencosme, Ascanio; Benítez, Zully; Bravo, Luz; Calle, Andrés; Flores, Daniel; Espinoza, María T.; Gómez, Gustavo; Hernández Bueno, José; Laribezcoa, Fiorella; Martino, Mabel; Lima, Selva; Monterrosa, Alvaro; Mostajo, Desiree; Ojeda, Eliana; Onatra, William; Sánchez, Hugo; Tserotas, Konstatinos; Vallejo, María; Witis, Silvina; Zúñiga, María (2015)
      Background: The prevalence of obesity increases during female mid-life and although many factors have been identified, data from Latin America is lacking. Objective: To assess factors related to obesity among middle-aged ...
    • Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Yáñez, M.; Devoto, Enzo; Sostin, C.; Zeballos, L.; Santos, J. L. (1996)
      Background: Obesity is considered a protective factor for osteoporosis improving bone mass and maintaining higher levels of estrogen during menopause. Objective: To determine the association of obesity with bone mineral ...
    • Fuenzalida, Loreto; García-Díaz, Diego F. (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)
      © 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved.Obesity has a high prevalence among children. On the other hand, acute respiratory infections especially of viral origin, are an important cause of morbidity and ...
    • Poniachik Teller, Jaime; Mancilla Asencio, Carla; Contreras B, Jorge; Csendes Juhasz, Attila; Smok Sahid, Gladys; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel; Rojas C, Jorge; Oksenberg Reisberg, Dan; Burdiles Pinto, Patricio; Maluenda Gatica, Fernando Aníbal; Díaz Jeraldo, Juan (2002)
      Background: Nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) has been recognized as a cause of chronic liver disease. Its main risk factor is obesity. Aim: To describe the clinical and liver pathological findings in a group of patients who ...
    • Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Martorell, Reynaldo (2010)
      Background: In adults and adolescents, obesity is positively associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors; however, evidence in preschool children is scarce. Objective: The objective was to assess the relations ...
    • Blumel Méndez, Juan; Arteaga, Eugenio; Mezones Holguin, Edward; Vallejo, María Soledad; Zuñiga, María Cristina; Witis, Silvina (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      Musculoskeletal pain (MSP) has been recently linked with high plasma leptin levels. Our objective was to study if obese women, who have higher leptin levels, could have a higher frequency of MSP. We studied 6079 Latin-American ...
    • Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Mericq, Verónica (American Society for Nutrition, 2013)
      Background: In low-birth-weight girls, obesity increases the risk of premature adrenarche and metabolic complications. However, the consistency of this association in normal-birth-weight children and its potential ...
    • Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Concha, Fernando; Salazar Rodríguez, Gabriela; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Rodríguez, María del Pilar; Ceballos, Ximena; Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás (2009)
      Childhood obesity in Chile has been recognized as a public health problem. In 2006, we developed a school-based obesity prevention pilot project to intervene during 5 months preschool and schoolchildren from 1st to 4th ...
    • Ovalle Salas, Alfredo; Martínez, María Angélica; Fuentes, Ariel; Marques, Ximena; Vargas, Francisco; Vergara, Paula; Staig, Pablo; Marín, María Paz; Oda, Francisco; Kakarieka, Elena (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)
      © 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All Rights Reserved. Background: Obesity in pregnancy is associated with significantly higher rates of infection. Aim: To compare the infectious morbidity in pregnant women with normal ...
    • Cifuentes Ovalle, Lucía (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2017)
    • Echeverría B., Carlos; Serani M., Alejandro; Arriagada Urzúa, Anamaría; Goic G., Alejandro; Rojas O., Alberto; Ruiz Esquide, Gonzalo; Salinas Ríos, Rodrigo; Taboada R., Paulina; Quintana V., Carlos; Vacarezza Yávar, Ricardo (Sociedad Médica Santiago, 2020)
      Conscientious Objection arises as a response to a regulation that is judged as immoral. Faced with a law that is considered unfair, the citizen can respond accepting it against his will, exercising conscientious objection ...
    • Celis Morales, Carlos; Pérez Bravo, Francisco; Ibañez, Luis; Salas, Carlos; Bailey, Mark E.S.; Gill, Jason M.R. (2012)
      Purpose: Imprecise measurement of physical activity variables might attenuate estimates of the beneficial effects of activity on health-related outcomes. We aimed to compare the cardiometabolic risk factor dose-response ...
    • Hungría, V. M.; Maiolino, A.; Martínez, G.; Souza, C. A.; Bittencourt, R.; Peters, L.; Colleoni, G.; Oliveira, L. C. O.; Crusoe, E.; Coelho, E. O. D. M.; Pasquini, R.; Magalhaes, S. M. M.; Nunes, R.; Pinto-Neto, J. V.; Faría, R. M. O.; Souza, M.; Hammerschlack, N.; Fantl, D.; Navarro, R.; Ruiz Argüelles, Guillermo J.; Gómez Almaguer, D.; Conte Lanza, Guillermo; Durie, B. G. M. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
    • Johnson, Carol A.; Freyer, Gina; Fabisch, Maria; Caraballo Monge, Manuel; Küsel, Kirsten; Hochella, Michael F. (CSIRO, 2014)
      In this study of iron- and silica-bearing nanoparticle and colloid aggregates in slightly acidic mine drainage, we combined bulk scale geochemistry techniques with detailed nanoscale analyses using high-resolution transmission ...
    • Venegas, Felipe; Guillomot, Michel; Vignon, Xavier; Servely, Jean Luc; Audouard, Chistophe; Montiel, Enrique; Le Bourhis, Daniel; Perón, Sandrine; Soto, Pilar; Rojas, Mariana (Universidad de la Frontera, 2006)
      SUMMARY: The objective of this project is to produce pudu embryos, obtained by means of fibroblast transfer taken from the ear of one animal, to the oocytes of a domestic ruminant such as cattle. In further work, the pudu ...
    • Beltrán, Marcelo A.; Vracko, Jozef; Cumsille Garib, Miguel; Cruces, Karina S.; Almonacid, Jorge; Danilova, Tatiana (WILEY-LISS, DIV JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 2007-07)
      Background and Objectives: It was proposed that occult pancreaticobiliary reflux (OPBR) was associated with precancerous mucosal changes in the gallbladder, hence the importance of this disorder. There are no published ...
    • Morrison Jara, Rodolfo; Araya, Lilian; Valle, Josefina del; Vidal, Vivian; Silva, Katherine (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
      Theoretical and political background: Human rights can help value human diversity as a natural condition of all societies. In some places, however, not everybody can exercise their rights.Purpose: This work aims to understand ...
    • Villarroel, Julia; Cecilia Bustamante, M.; Manríquez, Iván; Paz Bertoglia, M.; Mora, María; Galarce, Natalie (2012)
      Accidents with risk of occupational exposure to body fluids constitute more of a third of labor accidents. Objective: To describe the annual incidence of accidents with exposure to body fluids in the Felix Bulnes Hospital ...
    • Carmen Mendoza, N.; Cristian Barrientos, M.; Rodrigo Vasquez, P.; Valentina Panizza, F. (2001)
      We review the Hospital de Niños Dr. Exequiel González Cortés's experience on blood and body fluids exposure of healthcare team, from January 1992 to December 1999. This kind of exposure increases the risk of acquiring ...