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    • Turner, Eduardo; Iturra, Sebastián; Paulsen, César; Olivares, Gabriel; Portilla, Mario; Canals Cifuentes, María Andrea (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2021)
      Background: Despite being introduced 20 years ago minimally invasive aortic valve replacement is only performed routinely in a minority of patients worldwide. Aim: To report the operative outcome of minimally invasive ...
    • Bella, Maribel; Binfa Esbir, Lorena; Carrasco Parra, Alicia; Cornejo Aravena, Claudia Alejandra; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel Alfredo; Pantoja Manzanarez, Loreto Beatriz (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2021)
      Background: Violence against women (VAW) is a violation of women´s fundamental rights and special attention must be paid during the gestational and postpartum period. Aim: To determine the prevalence of violence ...
    • Bilal, Usama; Castro, Caio P. de; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Barrientos Gutiérrez, Tonatiuh; Barreto, Mauricio L.; Leveau, Carlos M.; Martínez Folgar, Kevin; Miranda, J. Jaime; Montes, Felipe; Mullachery, Pricila; Pina, María Fátima; Rodríguez, Daniel A.; Dos Santos, Gervasio F.; Andrade, Roberto F. S.; Diez-Roux, Ana V. (Amer Assoc Advancement Science, 2021)
      We explored how mortality scales with city population size using vital registration and population data from 742 cities in 10 Latin American countries and the United States. We found that more populated cities had lower ...
    • Huertas Zurriaga, Ariadna; Palmieri, Patrick A.; Edwards, Joan E.; Cesario, Sandra K.; Alonso Fernández, Sergio; Pardel Domínguez, Lidia; Domínguez Cancino, Karen Aileen; Leyva Moral, Juan M. (BMC, 2021)
      Background Women living with HIV (WLH) lack evidence-based information about reproductive options while managing pressures from family, clinicians, and communities to give up the idea of having children. As the reproduction ...
    • Bilal, Usama; Hessel, Philipp; Pérez Ferrer, Carolina; Michael, Yvonne L.; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Tenorio Mucha, Janeth; Friche, Amelia A. L.; Piña, María Fátima; Vives, Alejandra; Quick, Harrison; Alazraqui, Marcio; Rodríguez, Daniel A.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Diez Roux, Ana V. (Nature Research, 2021)
      The concept of a so-called urban advantage in health ignores the possibility of heterogeneity in health outcomes across cities. Using a harmonized dataset from the SALURBAL project, we describe variability and predictors ...
    • Troncoso, Jonathan; González, Cristian; Mena, Francisca; Valencia, Angélica; Cuevas, Paulina; Rubio, Juan Pablo (Doyma, 2021)
      Objetivo: Caracterizar la situación actual del médico gestor de la demanda (MGD) en la atención primaria de salud (APS), desde las percepciones de aquellos que cumplen ese rol, sus pares médicos y los directivos de los ...
    • Castro Mendes, Francisca de; Ducharme Smith, Kirstie; Mora García, Gustavo; Alqahtani, Saleh A.; Ruiz Diaz, María Stephany; Moreira, André; Villegas Ríos, Rodrigo; García Larsen, Vanessa (MDPI, 2021)
      Increasing epidemiological evidence suggests that optimal diet quality helps to improve preservation of lung function and to reduce chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risk, but no study has investigated the ...
    • Pacheco, Jorge; Crispi Galleguillos, María Francisca; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Martínez Gutiérrez, María Soledad; Cuadrado Nahum, Cristóbal Alfonso (BMC, 2021)
      Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, reductions in healthcare utilization are reported in different contexts. Nevertheless, studies have not explored specifically gender disparities in access to healthcare in the context ...
    • Veas, Cecilia; Crispi Galleguillos, María Francisca; Cuadrado Nahum, Cristóbal Alfonso (Elsevier, 2021)
      Background: Gender plays a well-recognized role in shaping health inequities. However, the population-level health consequences of gender inequalities have not been measured comprehensively. The goal of this study was to ...
    • Celedón, Natalia; González, Cristian; Cuadrado Nahum, Cristóbal Alfonso (Medwave Estudios Ltd, 2021)
      Access to medicines constitutes a public health challenge worldwide. Promoting the utilization of generic medicines is one of the strategies that has been proposed to optimize pharmaceutical spending and thus allow ...
    • Canals Lambarri, Mauricio (Soc Chilena Infectología, 2021)
      Se revisa brevemente el concepto de inmunidad de grupo, poblacional o efecto “rebaño”, mostrando que algunas ideas popularizadas no corresponden al concepto original. Se establece la relación con los números reproductivo ...
    • Ducharme Smith, Kirstie; Mora García, Gustavo; Castro Mendes, Francisca de; Ruiz Díaz, María Stephany; Moreira, Andre; Villegas Ríos, Rodrigo Luis; García Larsen, Vanessa (European Respiratory Soc Journals Ltd, 2021)
      Background There is a large burden of COPD in the US. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between diet quality with lung function, spirometric restriction and spirometrically defined COPD in a ...
    • Laporte Uribe, Franziska; Arteaga Herrera, Oscar Germán; Bruchhausen, Walter; Cheung, Gary; Cullum, Sarah; Fuentes Garcia, Alejandra Marcela; Miranda Castillo, Claudia; Kerse, Ngaire; Kirk, Ray; Muru Lanning, Marama; Salinas Ríos, Rodrigo Alejandro; Schrott, Lothar; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea María; Roes, Martina (MDPI, 2021)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed existing gaps in policies, systems and services, stressing the need for concerted global action on healthy aging. Similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, dementia is a challenge for health ...
    • Anigstein, María Sol; Burgos de la Vega, Soledad Antonieta; Medina Gay, Sebastián; Pesse Sorensen, Karen Andrea; Espinoza, Pamela; Toledo, Carolina (SAGE, 2021)
      La Promoción de la Salud (PS) es una función esencial de la salud pública que se ha puesto en tensión frente a la pandemia de la COVID-19, dado que los discursos y estrategias basados en la prevención y curación de la ...
    • Cortés, Sandra; Burgos de la Vega, Soledad; Adaros, Héctor; Lucero, Boris; Quirós Alcalá, Lesliam (MDPI, 2021)
      BACKGROUND: Environmental risk assessments and interventions to mitigate environmental risks are essential to protect public health. While the objective measurement of environmental hazards is important, it is also critical ...
    • Palacio, Ana; Luna, Camila; Maíz, Cristóbal; Blanco, Estela (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2021)
      Background: Weight regain (WR) after bariatric surgery is common. Several factors involved in WR have been identified, but there has been little research on specific eating habits such as eating snacks rather than regular ...
    • Gomes, Tania A. T.; Dobrindt, Ulrich; Farfán Urzúa, Mauricio Javier; Piazza, Roxane M. F. (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Escherichia coli live as commensals in the intestines of humans and warm-blooded animals (Leimbach et al., 2013). Although most E. coli strains rarely produce disease in healthy individuals, pathogenic strains can cause ...
    • Pardell Domínguez, Lidia; Palmieri, Patrick A.; Domínguez Cancino, Karen Aileen; Camacho Rodríguez, Doriam E.; Edwards, Joan E.; Watson, Jean; Leyva Moral, Juan M. (BMC, 2021)
      Background: Sexual health is a multidimensional phenomenon constructed by personal, social, and cultural factors but continues to be studied with a biomedical approach. During the postpartum period, a woman transitions ...
    • Pereyra, Isabel; Gómez Ayora, Andrea Ximena; Jaramillo Maureira, Karina Andrea; Ferreira, Augusto (Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo, Brasil, 2021)
      Objective: To examine the effect of birth weight and subsequent weight gain on children being overweight and obese in serial assessments of Uruguayan children living at urban areas. Methods: We used secondary data of ...
    • Dev, Saloni; Kankan, Tanvi; Blasco, Drew; Le, PhuongThao D.; Agrest, Martin; Dishy, Gabriella; Mascayano Tapia, Franco Sebastían Armando; Schilling, Sara; Jorquera González, María José; Dahl, Catarina; Tavares Cavalcanti, María; Price, LeShawndra; Conover, Sarah; Yang, Lawrence H.; Alvarado Muñoz, Rubén; Susser, Ezra S. (Cambridge Univ Press, England, 2021)
      Background. Few studies provide clear rationale for and the reception of adaptations of evidence-based interventions. To address this gap, we describe the context-dependent adaptations in critical time intervention-task ...