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Menopause, A Universal Female Experience: Lessons from Mexico and Central America
(Current Women’s Health Reviews 4(1), 3-8, 2008)
In Mexico and Central America, women typically experience menopause up to 10 years earlier than their U.S. counterparts. This may be due in part to numerous pregnancies, long periods of lactation, poor nutrition, extreme ...
Public health implications of low birth weight
(1977)
The present paper interpets the significance of anthropometric data of newborns
from a typical Indian village of Guatemala and from the general population of Costa
Rica. A good correlation exists between a deficient fetal ...
Infections and infectious diseases in a malnourished population: a long-term prospective field study
(1977)
The importance of infectious disease and its
role in the shaping of the history of mankind
has been recognized since Biblical times.
Pestilences were recorded in many classical
books, while most religions developed ...
Survival and Physical Growth in Infancy and Early Childhood Study of Birth Weight and Gestational Age in a Guatemalan Indian Village
(1975-05)
Many factors contribute independently
or jointly to the cause and
pathogenesis of low birth weight. Attempts
to identify these factors in a
given population, however, are usually
unsuccessful, and conclusions ...
Endometriosis en el canal inguinal
Endometriosis in the inguinal channel. Case report.
(Revista Médica de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Volumen 7, número 1, artículo 6, año 2013., 2013-04-10)
Resumen: Endometriosis se define como la presencia de tejido glandular y estromal endometrial fuera de la cavidad uterina y este tejido ectópico es dependiente de la estimulación estrogénica. Usualmente se presenta en ...
Carcinomas invasores triples negativos de la glándula mamaria: incidencia y características clínico-patológicas
Triple-Negative Invasive Breast Carcinoma: Incidence and Clinical - Pathological Characteristics
(Acta méd. costarric. Vol 52 (2), abril-junio 2010, p.90-95, 2010-04)
Justificación y objetivo: El comportamiento epidemiológico de los tumores malignos del país ha presentado un cambio en los últimos años; el cáncer de mama ha aumentado su incidencia hasta colocarse como el segundo tumor ...
Predicting mortality with biomarkers: a population-based prospective cohort study for elderly Costa Ricans
(Population Health Metrics 10(1), 2012)
Background: Little is known about adult health and mortality relationships outside high-income nations, partly
because few datasets have contained biomarker data in representative populations. Our objective is to ...
Epidemiología descriptiva del cáncer de mama y del cuello de útero en Costa Rica
(1987-05)
Se estudia la mortalidad e incidencia del cáncer de mama y cuello útero en Costa Rica y se las compara con datos de mujeres blancas de los Estados Unidos de América. La mortalidad por cáncer de mama en Costa Rica muestra ...
Cefalea en racimos
(Acta Médica Costarricense, Julio-Setiembre 2003, vol 45 (3) 97-101, 2003)
La cefalea en racimos (CR) o “neuralgia de Horton”, es un tipo relativamente raro de cefalea que se presenta en forma de ataques y cuya severidad le ha dado el nombre de “dolor de cabeza suicida”. Debido a que la CR es una ...
Predicting Survival from Telomere Length versus Conventional Predictors: A Multinational Population-Based Cohort Study
(2016-04)
Telomere length has generated substantial interest as a potential predictor of aging- related diseases and mortality. Some studies have reported significant associations, but few have tested its ability to discriminate ...