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Inbreeding, Native American ancestry and child mortality: linking human selection and paediatric medicine
(Oxford University Press, 2022)
The children of related parents show increased risk of early mortality. The Native American genome typically exhibits long stretches of homozygosity, and Latin Americans are highly heterogeneous regarding the individual ...
Socioeconomic development, health interventions and mortality decline in Costa Rica
(1991-02)
Costa Rica, whose life expectancy was 74 years by 1985, has reached a health level comparable to a developed country. The health achievements of this country are product of political and socioeconomic circumstances as well ...
Setting research priorities for preconception care in low- and middle-income countries: aiming to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity
(Public Library of Science, 2013-09)
Preconception care means providing care before pregnancy is established. Women and couples of reproductive age are generally unaware of the effects that their own health conditions and health-related behaviors may have on ...
Oral cancer mortality trends in Brazilian geographical regions from 1996-2001
(2006-12-01)
The purpose of this study was to analyse the oral cancer mortality trends in Brazil by geographic region, age and sex, from 1996 to 2001. The Brazilian Ministry of Health database DATASUS and the Brazilian Institute of ...
Childhood and adolescent obesity and adult mortality: a systematic review of cohort studies
(Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2008)
This systematic review addressed cohort studies on obesity in childhood and adolescence and adult mortality, published from January 1990 to March 2007. We searched the PubMed database with the following uniterms: obesity, ...
Liver-to-abdominal area ratio for predicting the in-hospital mortality in advanced liver cirrhosis
(2017-10-03)
Objectives: To identify the value of liver-to-abdominal area ratio (LAAR) score for predicting the in-hospital mortality in advanced cirrhotic patients. Methods: All cirrhotic patients with Child-Pugh class B or C who were ...