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Relación entre los estadios de maduración esqueletal y calcificación dentaria
(Ediciones Avances, 2014)
Introduction: The purposeof the study was to determine the degree of correlation between the Demirjian Stages of Calcification of mandibular cuspids, first and second bicuspids and the stages of carpal bone maturation ...
Bayesian inferences suggest that Amazon Yunga Natives diverged from Andeans less than 5000 ybp: Implications for South American prehistory
(BMC, 2014)
Background: Archaeology reports millenary cultural contacts between Peruvian Coast-Andes and the Amazon Yunga, a rainforest transitional region between Andes and Lower Amazonia. To clarify the relationships between cultural ...
Lactoferrin for prevention of neonatal sepsis
(Springer Verlag, 2014)
Preterm neonates are at risk to acquire infections. In addition to the high mortality associated with sepsis, these patients are at risk for long-term disabilities, particularly neurodevelopment impairment. Several ...
Exploratory application of the Ages and Stages (ASQ) child development screening test in a low-income Peruvian shantytown population
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2014)
Objetives: Public health research on child health is increasingly focusing on the long-term impacts of infectious diseases, malnutrition and social deprivation on child development. The Objetives: of this exploratory study ...
Maternal obesity and fetal deaths: Results from the Brazilian cross-sectional demographic health survey, 2006
(BMC, 2014)
Background: Obesity is highly related to negative reproductive health outcomes, but its relationship with spontaneous abortion and stillbirth remains to be understood, especially in transitioning economies. This study aimed ...
Adherence to reduced-polluting biomass fuel stoves improves respiratory and sleep symptoms in children
(BMC, 2014)
Background: Symptoms of sleep apnea are markedly increased in children exposed to smoke from biomass fuels and are reduced by kitchen stoves that improve indoor biomass pollution. However, the impact of adherence to the ...
The response of the Peruvian Upwelling Ecosystem to centennial-scale global change during the last two millennia
(SAGE Publications, 2014)
The tropical Pacific ocean–atmosphere system influences global climate on interannual, decadal, as well as longer timescales. Given the uncertainties in the response of the tropical Pacific to increasing greenhouse gasses, ...
Field evaluation of the InBios Chagas detect plus rapid test in serum and whole-blood specimens in Bolivia
(American Society for Microbiology, 2014)
Trypanosoma cruzi causes Chagas disease, which affects an estimated 7 million to 8 million people. Chagas disease is endemic throughout Latin America, with the highest prevalence in Bolivia. Conventional diagnosis requires ...
Prevalence, clinical profile, iron status, and subject-specific traits for excessive erythrocytosis in andean adults living permanently at 3,825 meters above sea level
(Elsevier, 2014)
Excessive erythrocytosis (EE) is a prevalent condition in populations living at high altitudes (> 2,500 m above sea level). Few large population-based studies have explored the association between EE and multiple ...
Clinical evaluation of tuberculosis viability microscopy for assessing treatment response
(Oxford University Press, 2015)
Background: It is difficult to determine whether early tuberculosis treatment is effective in reducing the infectiousness of patients' sputum, because culture takes weeks and conventional acid-fast sputum microscopy and ...