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Factors associated with hypertension prevalence, unawareness and treatment among Costa Rican elderly
(BMC Public Health 8(275):1-11, 2008-08-05)Background: Reliable information on the prevalence of hypertension is crucial in the development of health policies for prevention, control, and early diagnosis of this condition. This study describes the prevalence of ... -
Factors influencing adherence to treatment among people with leprosy in Costa Rica
(2023)Objective The objective of this study was to identify factors influencing adherence to treatment among people with leprosy in Costa Rica, Central America. Methodology An exploratory, qualitative study was conducted ... -
Falla intestinal en el paciente quirúrgico adulto
(2022-11-11)La falla intestinal es una condición comúnmente identificada en los salones de cirugía general, su incidencia global no es alta pero la falta de identificación temprana es potencialmente mortal. Su etiología es variada y ... -
Family-based association of an ANK3 haplotype with bipolar disorder in Latino populations
(Translational Psychiatry (2013) 3, e265, 2013-05-28)Some of the most consistent findings have been in variants located in the ANK3 (ankyrin-G) gene located on chromosome 10q. Schultz et al.4 found that BP risk alleles in ANK3, rs9804190 and rs10994336, contributed ... -
Farmacogenética: hacia la individualización de la terapia farmacológica en Costa Rica
(2012-08)La ‘era posgenómica’ ha impactado las ciencias biológicas y biomédicas desde la identificación de un significativo componente de variabilidad genética interindividual. La Farmacología no escapa a esta realidad, y esta ... -
Fasting Whole Blood as a Biomarker of Essential Fatty Acid Intake in Epidemiologic Studies: Comparison with Adipose Tissue and Plasma
(2005)Biomarkers could provide a more accurate measure of long-term intake than questionnaires. Adipose tissue is considered the best indicator of long-term essential fatty acid intake, but other tissues may prove equally valid. ... -
Fat Intake and obesity-related parameters predict striatal BDNF gene expression and dopamine metabolite levels in cafeteria diet-fed rats
(2022-04)Modern westernized diet is a major risk factor associated with the current obesity epidemic. To study the effects of dietary choices of Western societies, the cafeteria diet has been validated as a preclinical model of ... -
Fatal meningoencephalitis in child and isolation of Naegleria fowleri from hot springs in Costa Rica
(2015-02)In summary, this investigation identified an N. fowleri ameba in water sources at a resort in Costa Rica that had been visited by a child from the United States who died of PAM as a results of N. fowleri infection. These ... -
Favourable changes in economic well-being and self-rated health among the elderly
(2011-04)Adverse economic shocks exert an influence on health perceptions, but little is known about the effect of sudden positive changes in a person’s financial situation on self-rated health, particularly among low income people. ... -
Fe de Erratas para el libro Fisiología del Ejercicio: Respuestas, entrenamiento y medición
(2011-02)Este documento corrige una cantidad importante de errores que aparecieron en la publicación original del libro de Aragón Vargas y Fernández Ramírez: Fisiología del Ejercicio: respuestas, entrenamiento y medición. -
Fecal rotaviruses, adenoviruses, corona virus like particles, and small round viruses in a cohort of rural costa rican children
(1985)Excretion patterns of fecal viruses were studied in a cohort of 51 rural Costa Rican children. The presence of rotavirus, adenovirus, coronavirus-like particles, and small round viruses was investigated by electron microscopy ... -
Fecundidad diferencial e inmigrantes nicaragüenses en Costa Rica
(Notas de Población (74) ; p. 27-51, 2002)Sobre la base de información procedente del registro de nacimientos de Costa Rica y de la fecundidad relativa de las inmigrantes comprendidas en una encuesta por muestreo, en este estudio se estima que en 1998 el número de ... -
La fecundidad en Costa Rica: 1992–2010
(2012)La Encuesta Nacional de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva, llevada a cabo el año 2010, confirma los cambios en la fecundidad de las mujeres. No obstante que el cambio en la tasa global de fecundidad es conocido por medio de la ... -
Fecundidad y uso de anticonceptivo en Costa Rica, 1987
(1989)La prevalencia de anticonceptivos en Costa Rica es una de las más altas de América Latina: el 70 por ciento de las mujeres actualmente casadas utilizan algún método anticonceptivo. Los diferenciales en el uso de anticonceptivos ... -
Feeding behavior and venom toxicity of coral snake Micrurus nigrocinctus (Serpentes: Elapidae) on its natural prey in captivity
(2004-08)The feeding behavior and venom toxicity of the coral snake Micrurus nigrocinctus (Serpentes: Elapidae) on its natural prey in captivity were investigated. Coral snakes searched for their prey (the colubrid snake Geophis ... -
Fertility and infant mortality in Costa Rica
(1992)Costa Rica is a small country, geographically situated in the Central American isthmus, with 2.2 million inhabitants. Although its exports are mainly of an agricultural nature, the country has reached a level of welfare ... -
Fertility change in Costa Rica 1960-84: analysis of retrospective lifetime reproductive histories
(1989-10)Lifetime reproductive histories of a 1984-85 nationally representative sample of 870 women aged 25-59 years provided data to describe the evolution of fertility, contraception, breast-feeding, and natural fecundability ... -
Fiebre Chikungunya Información general, tratamiento y prevención
(2014)Les presentamos esta edición especial del BIF sobre información general, tratamiento y prevención de la fiebre chikungunya, que todo profesional de salud debe conocer. -
First characterization of the probiotic potential of lactic acid bacteria isolated from Costa Rican pineapple silages
(2021)Background. Agro-industrial waste from tropical environments could be an important source of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) with probiotic potential. Methods. Twelve LAB isolates were isolated from pineapple silages. The ... -
First crotoxin-like phospholipase A2 complex from a New World non-rattlesnake species: Nigroviriditoxin, from the arboreal Neotropical snake Bothriechis nigroviridis
(Toxicon vol 93:144–154, 2015-01)Bothriechis nigroviridis is an arboreal Neotropical pitviper found in Costa Rica and Panam a. A previous proteomic profiling of its venom revealed the presence of proteins with homology to the A and B subunits of ...