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Hacia una mayor integración de las ciencias naturales y las ciencias sociales: análisis de un caso relacionado con un problema de salud pública
(2009)Se discute la conveniencia de promover una interacción y un diálogo productivo entre las ciencias naturales, las ciencias sociales y las tecnologías. El tema se analiza alrededor del caso de un problema de salud: los ... -
Hair zinc levels in rural Costa Rican infants and preschool children
(The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: 33; p. 2194-2197, 1980-10)Correlations between hair zinc and age, sex, weight, and length were determined on 138 boys and girls aged 6 months to 4 years from a low socioeconomic region of rural Costa Rica. Zinc deficiency, as assessed by hair zinc ... -
Half a century of research on Bothrops asper venom variation: biological and biomedical implications
(2022)Snake venoms are a complex biological mixture of proteins with or without enzymatic activity, peptides, and nucleotides, among other components. It is produced in specialized secretory glands located in the maxillary region, ... -
Hallazgos histopatológicos asociados a la presencia de arbovirus (chikungunya, zika, dengue, virus del nilo occidental) en murciélagos y aves silvestres en ambientes rurales domiciliares y peridomiciliares
(2020)Los arbovirus son virus transmitidos por vectores artrópodos. En Costa Rica, circulan algunos como el Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya y Nilo occidental. Los arbovirus poseen dos ciclos ecológicos diferentes para lograr mantenerse ... -
Hábitos alimentarios de la población urbana costarricense
(2019-10)Objetivo: Es sabido que los malos hábitos alimentarios contribuyen a la aparición de enfermedades crónicas, como la obesidad y la diabetes mellitus, sin embargo, no existe información actualizada respecto a la alimentación ... -
Hábitos orales de succión no alimentarios y presencia de caries en niños de 12 a 24 meses
(1994)The purpose of the presente research was to measure the relationship between the no alimentary sucking habits and the ocurrence of dental caries in children between 12 and 24 months of age. 205 children with dental caries ... -
Health education needs of intimate partner violence survivors: Perspectives from female survivors and social service providers
(2017-11)Objective: To explore the health education needs and learning preferences of female intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors in a social service agency located in South Florida, United States. Design and Sample: An ... -
Health inequalities in the geographic distribution of dental practitioners in Costa Rica: an ecological study
(2023-07-29)Results: Mean national LPA was 6.5 full-time equivalents per 10 000 inhabitants, 3.4% of the Costa Rican population had no access to dentist; 12.9% had very low accessibil- ity, 22.7% had low accessibility, 35.0% had ... -
Health-Related Quality of Life of Older Adults in Costa Rica as Measured by the Short-Form-36 Health Survey
(2018-07)Objective: To test the validity of a common measure of health-related quality of life (Short-Form-36 [SF-36]) in cognitively healthy older adults living in rural and urban Costa Rica. Method: Confirmatory factor analysis ... -
Healthy Lifestyle Habits in Latin American University Students during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Center Study
(2022-09)ABSTRACT Background: Deterioration in the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and healthy eating behavior due to the effect of COVID-19 lockdown has been reported. The aim of this study was to associate eating ... -
Helicobacter pylori causes Hyperproliferation of the gastric Epithelium: Pre- and Post-Eradication indices of proliferating cell nuclear antigen
(1993)To assess the effect of Helicobacter pylori (HP) eradication on the proliferation of the gastric epithelium by the expression of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). Methods: Alcohol-fixed gastric biopsies ... -
Helicobacter pylori in a Costa Rican dyspeptic patient population
(1994-03)Gastric biopsies from 65 Costa Rican dyspeptic patients were investigated for the presence ofHelicobacter pylori DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of 16S rRNA sequences. Both frozen and paraffin-embedded ... -
Helicobacter pylori infection and serum pepsinogen concentrations in an elderly population representative of Costa Rica
(2022)INTRODUCTION: Costa Rica has among the highest mortality rates from gastric cancer in the world, largely due to late detection. It is therefore important that economically and logistically sustainable screening is implemented ... -
Helicobacter pylori infection induces gastric precancerous lesions and persistent expression of Angpt2, Vegf-A and Tnf-A in a mouse model
(2023)Helicobacter pylori colonizes the gastric mucosa and induces chronic inflammation. Using a mouse model of H. pylori-induced gastritis, we evaluated the mRNA and protein expression levels of proinflammatory and proangiogenic ... -
Helicobacter pylori infection induces abnormal expression of pro‑angiogenic gene ANGPT2 and miR‑203a in AGS gastric cell line
(2023-03-06)Helicobacter pylori colonizes the stomach and induces an inflammatory response that can develop into gastric pathologies including cancer. The infection can alter the gastric vasculature by the deregulation of angiogenic ... -
Helicobater pylori. ¿Es posible la erradicación?
(1999)Objetivo: Erradicar H. pylori en pacientes dispepticos de una población de alto riesgo de cancer gástrico Poblacion y metodos: A 174 pacientes dispepticos, de una poblacion de alto riesgo de cancer gastric°, se les ... -
Hemicolectomia radical derecha paparoscopica + disección D3
(2023)El adenocarcinoma de colon es una de las neoplasias malignas más frecuentes, tanto en el ámbito mundial como en Costa Rica, además, presenta una de las morbimortalidades más elevadas en comparación con el resto de las ... -
Hemorrhage Caused by Snake Venom Metalloproteinases: A Journey of Discovery and Understanding
(2016-03-26)The historical development of discoveries and conceptual frames for understanding the hemorrhagic activity induced by viperid snake venoms and by hemorrhagic metalloproteinases (SVMPs) present in these venoms is reviewed. ...