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The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and CV Risk Factors: The CRONICAS Cohort Study of Peruvian Adults
(Elsevier, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Variations in the distribution of cardiovascular disease and risk factors by socioeconomic status (SES) have been described in affluent societies, yet a better understanding of these patterns is needed for ...
Plasmodium vivax Diversity and Population Structure across Four Continents
(Public Library of Science, 2015)
Plasmodium vivax is the geographically most widespread human malaria parasite. To analyze patterns of microsatellite diversity and population structure across countries of different transmission intensity, genotyping data ...
Chronic respiratory disease and high altitude are associated with depressive symptoms in four diverse settings
(International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2016)
SETTING: Depression is a prevalent comorbidity of chronic respiratory disease (CRD), and may indicate worse clinical outcomes. The relationship between depression and living with chronic hypoxia due to CRD or residence at ...
Epidemiology of disappearing Plasmodium vivax malaria: a case study in rural Amazonia
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Background: New frontier settlements across the Amazon Basin pose a major challenge for malaria elimination in Brazil. Here we describe the epidemiology of malaria during the early phases of occupation of farming settlements ...
Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater as an epidemiological surveillance tool in Mendoza, Argentina
(Elsevier, 2021-11)
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an emerging tool that gives temporal and spatial information on a population's health status. Here, we report the epidemiological dynamics of a population of ~1.2 million residents ...
The molecular epidemiology of Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum
(CSIRO Publishing, 2015)
Pathogens adapt and evolve in response to pressures exerted by host environments, leading to generation of genetically diverse variants. Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum displays a substantial amount of interstrain ...
Changing epidemiology and outcomes of acute kidney injury in Brazilian patients: a retrospective study from a teaching hospital
(2020-01-01)
Purpose: While considerable information is available on acute kidney injury (AKI) in North America and Europe, large comprehensive epidemiologic studies on AKI from Latin America and Asia are still lacking. The present ...
Health effects of 'Juntos', a conditional cash transfer programme in Peru
(Wiley, 2016)
In some countries, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes show an impact on maternal and child health. Juntos, the CCT programme in Peru, has been evaluated several times operationally, but seldom for maternal and child ...