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    • Moreno, Lorena; Cano Cappellacci, Marcelo; Orellana Zapata, Yasna; Kain Berkovic, Juliana (NCBI, 2015)
      The main objectives of this study were to compare in 6-9 y Chilean low-income children, daily minutes of moderate/ vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and compliance of the guideline of 60 min of daily MVPA on weekdays versus ...
    • Cruchet Muñoz, Sylvia; Furnes, Raquel; Maruy, Aldo; Hebel, Eduardo; Palacios, Jorge; Medina, Fernando; Ramírez, Nelson; Orsi, Marina; Rondon, Lysette; Sdepanian, Vera; Xochihua, Luis; Ybarra, Manuel; Zablah, Roberto Arturo (ADIS Int., 2015)
      Objective The stability and composition of intestinal flora plays a vital role in human wellbeing throughout life from as early as birth. Over the past 50 years, several studies have been conducted to evaluate the effect ...
    • Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo; Hödar Quiroga, Christian; Travisany, Dante; Zúñiga, Alejandro; Domínguez, Calixto; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; González Canales, Mauricio; Cambiazo Ayala, Verónica (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Piscirickettsiosis or Salmonid Rickettsial Septicaemia (SRS) is a bacterial disease that has a major economic impact on the Chilean salmon farming industry. Despite the fact that Piscirickettsia salmonis has ...
    • Rodríguez, Juan Manuel; Leiva Balich, Laura; Concha, M. J.; Mizón, C.; Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Barrera Acevedo, Gladys; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Jiménez Jaime, Teresa; Henríquez, Sandra; Uribarri, Jaime; Maza Cave, María Pía de la (Aula Médica Ediciones, 2015)
      Dietary intake of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) increases circulating and tissue levels of these substances, contributing to a state of increased oxidative stress and inflammation. A low dietary AGE intervention ...
    • Navarro, Elizabeth; Araya, Magdalena (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2015)
      Remission of gastrointestinal and general symptoms after gluten withdrawal has been described in some non-celiac individuals for nearly 30 years. Only recently, efforts have been made to define this entity, now referred ...
    • Aguirre, C. A.; Salazar, G. D.; Lopez de Romaña, D. V.; Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (Natura Publishing Group, 2015)
      BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to assess the validity of body fatness estimations based on skinfolds and bioelectrical iImpedance analyses (BIA) measurements compared to a three-component model (3C model) ...
    • Saludes Betanzo, María José; Troncoso Herrera, Miriam; Figueroa Gronemeyer, Guillermo (Elsevier, 2015)
      Objectives: To compare Listeria monocytogenes strains obtained from food matrices with those from environmental samples in the same food processing plant. Methods and results: Between 2008 and 2012 the presence of L. ...
    • Latorre, Mauricio; Low, Marcela; Gárate, Esteban; Reyes Jara, Angélica; Murray, Bárbara E.; Cambiazo Ayala, Verónica; González, Mauricio (Royal Soc Chemistry, 2015)
      By integrating the microarray expression data and a global E. faecalis transcriptional network we identified a sub-network activated by zinc and copper. Our analyses indicated that the transcriptional response of the ...
    • Burrows, Raquel; Correa Burrows, Paulina; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Blanco, Estela; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Gahagan, Sheila (Hindawi Publishing, 2015)
      Objective. To determine the optimal cutoff of the homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) for diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adolescents and examine whether insulin resistance (IR), determined ...
    • Papić, Ljubomir; García, Katherine; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (Univ. Católica de Valparaíso, 2015)
      El desarrollo de la acuicultura sustentable es acorde con la demanda creciente de nuevas metodologías que aseguren la salud de las diversas especies acuícolas. Dentro de ellas, el uso de terapias revolucionarias basadas ...
    • Kanter, Rebecca; Walls, Helen L.; Tak, Mehroosh; Roberts, Francis; Waage, Jeff (Springer, 2015)
      Agriculture and food systems are important determinants of nutrition and consequent public health. However, an understanding of the links among agriculture, food systems, nutrition, public health and the associated policy ...
    • Cadenas Sánchez, Cristina; Artero, Enrique G.; Concha, Fernando; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Kain Berkovic, Juliana (Aula Médica Ediciones, 2015)
      The purpose of this study was to describe anthropometric and physical fitness characteristics of low-income Chilean preschool children and to examine whether weight status influences children's performance on fitness tests. ...
    • Brito, Alex; Mujica Coopman, María; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel; López de Romaña, Daniel; Cori, Héctor; Allen, Lindsay H. (SAGE Publications Inc., 2015)
      Background: The current magnitude of folate and vitamin B-12 deficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean is uncertain. Objective: To summarize data on plasma or serum vitamin B-12 and folate concentrations in Latin ...
    • Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Araya, Marcela; Casanello, Paola; Kusanovic, Juan Pedro; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Maternal obesity before and during pregnancy predicts maternal and infant risks of obesity and its associated metabolic conditions. Dietary and physical activity recommendations during pregnancy as well ...
    • Durán Agüero, Samuel; Torres García, Jairo; Sanhueza Catalán, Julio (SENPE, 2015)
      Las enfermedades cardiovasculares (ECV), y en especial la obstrucción de las arterias coronarias, suponen el principal gasto en salud de la mayor parte de los países. Sin embargo, Francia, según la OMS, presenta la ...
    • Reyes, Sussanne; Peirano Campos, Patricio; Luna, Beatriz; Lozoff, Betsy; Algarín Crespo, Cecilia Rosa (Nature Publishing, 2015)
      BACKGROUND: Reward system and inhibitory control are brain functions that exert an influence on eating behavior regulation. We studied the differences in inhibitory control and sensitivity to reward and loss avoidance ...
    • Reyes, S.; Peirano, P.; Peigneux, P.; Lozoff, B.; Algarin, C. (Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2015)
      BACKGROUND: Preventing obesity is a worldwide public health priority. In vulnerable children living in obesogenic environments, with easy access to high-caloric food, alterations in inhibitory control functions might favor ...
    • Olivares Cortés, Sonia; Zacarías Hasbún, Isabel; González González, Carmen Gloria; Fonseca Morán, Lilian; Mediano Stoltze, Fernanda; Pinheiro Fernandes, Anna Christina; Rodríguez Osiac, Lorena (Aula Medica Ediciones, 2015)
      Introducción: las Guías Alimentarias Basadas en Alimentos (GABA) generalmente van acompañadas de una imagen para su difusión e implementación. Objetivo: diseñar y validar una imagen que represente la variedad y ...
    • Uribarri, Jaime; Castillo, María Dolores del; Maza Cave, María Pía de la; Filip, Rosana; Gugliucci, Alejandro; Luevano Contreras, Claudia; Macias Cervantes, Maciste; Markowicz Bastos, Deborah; Medrano, Alejandra; Menini, Teresita; Portero Otin, Manuel; Rojas, Armando; Rodrigues Sampaio, Geni; Wrobel, Kazimierz; Wrobel, Katarzyna; Garay Sevilla, Eugenia (American Society for Nutrition, 2015)
      Over the past 2 decades there has been increasing evidence supporting an important contribution from food-derived advanced glycation end products (AGEs) to the body pool of AGEs and therefore increased oxidative stress ...
    • Faúndes Gómez, Víctor; Santa María Vásquez, Lorena; Aliaga Vera, Solange; Curotto Liotta, Bianca; Pugin Aguayo, Ángela; Alliende Rodríguez, María Angélica (Wiley, 2015)