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Herpes simplex virus type 2 antibodies: high prevelence in monogamous women in Costa Rica
(1989-08)
We studied the prevalence of antibody to Herpes simplex virus types 1 and
2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2) in 766 randomly selected Costa Rican women 25-59 years of age
in a national household survey in 1984-1985. Overall, 97.1% were ...
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.
Monitoring a primary health care program with lot quality assurance sampling: Costa Rica, 1987
(1990)
The Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LOAS) method was developed in industry to determine at reasonable cost whether each lot of a shipment is acceptable, based on samples of a few elements from the lot. Acting as inspectors ...
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 ...
Generational Transfers and Population Aging in Latin America
(Population and Development review 37 (Supplement): 143–157 (2011) 143, 2011)
Population aging, a direct consequence of the demographic transition, is often portrayed in negative, even dire terms. This chapter examines some of the probable effects of population aging in Latin America within the ...
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 ...
Susceptibilidad al tétanos y rubeola de las mujeres de Costa Rica, 1984-1985
(1988)
Se documenta por primera vez en Costa Rica, el nivel
de susceptibilidad al tétanos y la rubéola en la
población femenina costarricense entre los 25 y 29
años.
Se encuestó a 805 de las mujeres (93%) que
conformaban la ...