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Amerindian ancestry and extended longevity in Nicoya, Costa Rica
(2018-01)
Objectives: The aim of this study was to address the hypothesis that Amerindian
ancestry is associated with extended longevity in the admixed population of Nicoya,
Costa Rica. The Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica has been ...
Estimación (1980-2017) y proyección (2018-2100) de la población económicamente activa de Costa Rica. Informe metodológico
(2018)
La identificación de las tendencias pasadas y la proyección a futuro de la población
económicamente activa (PEA) del país son necesarias para la planificación de sus
recursos humanos y la formulación de las políticas de ...
Lo que depara la pandemia al nuevo presidente
(2022-04-05)
El 9 de mayo la flamante administración encontrará el país navegando sobre una nueva ola pandémica. Hacia el 8 de junio los nuevos diagnósticos de Covid-19 podrían ser 3.000 diarios.
Centenarian clocks: epigenetic clocks for validating claims of exceptional longevity.
(2023)
Claims surrounding exceptional longevity are sometimes disputed or dismissed for lack of credible evidence. Here, we present three DNA methylation-based age estimators (epigenetic clocks) for verifying age claims of ...
Correlates of longitudinal leukocyte telomere length in the Costa Rican Longevity Study of Healthy Aging (CRELES): On the importance of DNA collection and storage procedures
(2019)
The objective is to identify cofactors of leukocyte telomere length (LTL) in a Latin American population, specifically the association of LTL with 36 socio-demographic, early childhood, and health characteristics, as well ...
The vanishing advantage of longevity in Nicoya, Costa Rica: A cohort shif
(2023)
BACKGROUND
The Nicoya region in Costa Rica has been identified as one of a handful of hotspots of
extreme longevity. The evidence supporting this status comes mostly from observing the
1990 and 2000 decades and cohorts ...
Tasa R de la pandemia en Costa Rica
(2020-05-05)
Una tasa R=1 en una pandemia significa que cada generación de propagadores es reemplazada por otra de igual tamaño. Costa Rica ya entró en un terreno preocupante, pues la tasa, al 3 de mayo, era 1,18.
Spatial access to health care in Costa Rica and its equity: a GIS-based study
(2004-04)
This study assembles a geographic information system (GIS) to relate the 2000 census population (demand) with an inventory of health facilities (supply). It assesses the equity in access to health care by Costa Ricans and ...
Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study
(2019)
The Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES, or Costa Rica Estudio de Longevidad y Envejecimiento Saludable) is a set of nationally representative longitudinal surveys of health and life-course experiences ...
The mathematics of the reproduction number R for Covid-19: A primer for demographers
(2022)
The reproduction number R is a key indicator used to monitor the dynamics of
Covid-19 and to assess the e ects of infection control strategies that frequently have
high social and economic costs. Despite having an analog ...