Browsing by Subject "Public health"

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    • Chile's 2014 sugar-sweetened beverage tax and changes in prices and purchases of sugar-sweetened beverages: ... 
      Caro, Juan Carlos; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Silva, Andrés; Popkin, Barry; Taillie, Lindsey Smith (Public Library Science, 2018)
      Background On October 1, 2014, the Chilean government modified its previous sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax, increasing the tax rate from 13% to 18% on industrialized beverages with high levels of sugar (H-SSBs) ...
    • Effects of the consumption of guarana on human health: a narrative review 
      Torres, Elizabeth A. F. S.; Da C. Pinaffi-Langley, Ana Clara; Figueira, Marcela de Souza; Cordeiro, Karina Silva; Negrao, Leonardo Dias; Soares, Maiara Jurema; Da Silva, Cintia Pereira; Zsigovics Alfino, María Carolina; Sampaio, Geni Rodrigues; Costa de Camargo, Adriano (Wiley, 2022)
      Guarana (Paullinia cupana) is a plant from the Amazon region with cultural importance. Despite its early ancestral use by indigenous tribes, the first reports regarding the benefits of guarana consumption for human health ...
    • GalaxyTrakr: a distributed analysis tool for public health whole genome sequence data accessible to ... 
      Gangiredla, Jayanthi; Rand, Hugh; Benisatto, Daniel; Payne, Justin; Strittmatter, Charles; Sanders, Jimmy; Wolfgang, William J.; Libuit, Kevin; Herrick, James B.; Prarat, Melanie; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly Alejandra; Farrell, Thomas; Strain, Errol (BMC, 2021)
      Background: Processing and analyzing whole genome sequencing (WGS) is computationally intense: a single Illumina MiSeq WGS run produces ~ 1 million 250-base-pair reads for each of 24 samples. This poses significant obstacles ...
    • Sociodemographic predictors of early postnatal growth: evidence from a Chilean infancy cohort 
      Von Holle, Ann; North, Kari E.; Gahagan, Sheila; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Blanco, Estela; Lozoff, Betsy; Howard, Annie Green; Justice, Anne; Graff, Misa; Voruganti, Venkata Saroja (BMJ, 2020)
      Objectives Infant anthropometric growth varies across socioeconomic factors, including maternal education and income, and may serve as an indicator of environmental influences in early life with long-term health consequences. ...