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Waist circumference percentiles in children and adolescents between 6 and 14 years from Santiago, Chile
(2012)
Objective: To describe the percentile distribution of waist circumference (WC) by sex and age in a representative sample of children and adolescents of lower-middle and low socioeconomic status in Santiago, Chile. Methods: ...
Spatio-temporal analysis of malaria incidence in the Peruvian Amazon Region between 2002 and 2013
(Springer Nature, 2017)
Malaria remains a major public health problem in the Peruvian Amazon where the persistence of high-risk transmission areas (hotspots) challenges the current malaria control strategies. This study aimed at identifying ...
Dengue fever: a post-epidemic sero-epidemiological survey in an urban setting at a northwestern county of S. Paulo State - Brazil
(Revista De Saude PublicaSao PauloBrasil, 1999)
Comparison of Nonblood-Based and Blood-Based Total CV Risk Scores in Global Populations
(Elsevier, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Cost-effective primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in low- and middle-income countries requires accurate risk assessment. Laboratory-based risk tools currently used in high-income countries are ...
Recent advances in cross-cultural measurement in psychiatric epidemiology: Utilizing 'what matters most' to identify culture-specific aspects of stigma
(Oxford University Press, 2014)
Background: While stigma measurement across cultures has assumed growing importance in psychiatric epidemiology, it is unknown to what extent concepts arising from culture have been incorporated. We utilize a formulation ...
Avian influenza: Eco-epidemiological aspects of the virus in its natural hosts, the migratory waterfowls
(Sociedad de Biología de Chile, 2010)
Epidemiological profile of viral hepatitis in Rio Grande do Sul and its Health Macro-Regions
(HCPA/FAMED/UFRGS, 2018)
Migration, urbanisation and mortality: 5-year longitudinal analysis of the PERU MIGRANT study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)
OBJECTIVE: To compare all-cause and cause-specific mortality among 3 distinct groups: within-country, rural-to-urban migrants, and rural and urban dwellers in a longitudinal cohort in Peru. METHODS: The PERU MIGRANT Study, ...
Multiple norovirus infections in a birth cohort in a Peruvian Periurban community
(Oxford University Press, 2014)
BACKGROUND: Human noroviruses are among the most common enteropathogens globally, and are a leading cause of infant diarrhea in developing countries. However, data measuring the impact of norovirus at the community level ...
Proposal for measurement the body size dissatisfaction in epidemiological studies
(Oxford Univ Press, 2016-11-01)