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Cross-Sectional Comparison of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Native Peruvian Highlanders and Lowlanders
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Altitude can accentuate sleep disordered breathing (SDB), which has been linked to cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. SDB in highlanders has not been characterized in large controlled studies. The purpose ...
Weaknesses in the reporting of cross-sectional studies according to the STROBE statement: the case of metabolic syndrome in adults from Peru
(Facultad de Salud de la Universidad del Valle, 2015)
Introduction: The inadequate reporting of cross-sectional studies, as in the case of the prevalence of metabolic syndrome, could cause problems in the synthesis of new evidence and lead to errors in the formulation of ...
Rural-to-Urban Migration: Socioeconomic Status But Not Acculturation was Associated with Overweight/Obesity Risk
(Springer, 2015)
To investigate whether socioeconomic status (SES) and acculturation predict overweight/obesity risk as well as the mediating effect of physical activity (PA) in the context of internal migration. Cross-sectional study of ...
Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant and Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis within Households: A Prospective Cohort Study
(Public Library of Science, 2015)
BACKGROUND: The "fitness" of an infectious pathogen is defined as the ability of the pathogen to survive, reproduce, be transmitted, and cause disease. The fitness of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) relative to ...
New insights in cysticercosis transmission
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Taenia solium infection causes severe neurological disease in humans. Even though infection and exposure to swine cysticercosis is scattered throughout endemic villages, location of the tapeworm only explains some of the ...
Interval observers for SIR epidemic models subject to uncertain seasonality
(Springer Verlag, 2017)
Epidemic models describe the establishment and spread of infectious diseases. Among them, the SIR model is one of the simplest, involving exchanges between three compartments in the population, that represent respectively ...
Medical Student Knowledge of Neglected Tropical Diseases in Peru: A Cross-Sectional Study
(Public Library of Science, 2015)
In developing countries, education to health-care professionals is a cornerstone in the battle against neglected tropical diseases (NTD). Studies evaluating the level of knowledge of medical students in clinical and ...
Epidemiology of the first 100 cases of COVID-19 in Taiwan and its implications on outbreak control
Purpose: To describe the epidemiology and outcome of the first 100 COVID-19 cases in Taiwan.
Methods: We included the first 100 patients with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in
Taiwan. Demographic, clinical, ...