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Serum cholesterol, triglyceride, and high-density-lipoprotein concentrations in men with different dietary and exercise regimens in Puriscal, Costa Rica
(1986)
Mean serum cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations were higher for two
groups of sedentary middle-aged and elderly men than for a group of physically-active,
middle-aged farmers, all from rural Puriscal, Costa Rica. ...
Relationship of upper body fat distribution to serum glucose and lipids in a Costa Rican population
(1987)
Present models of the relation between subcutaneous fat distribution and serum biochemistries have been based largely on U.S. White populations. To determine interpopulational differences in that relation, we measured 68 ...
El cólera en la Costa Rica de 1856
(1992-02)
La segunda pandemia del cólera que se iniciara en 1829 en en la India, llego a las Américas y atacó México, Guatemala, Nicaragua y Panamá. No se tiene noticia de que en esa ocasión el cólera llegara a Costa Rica, lo cual ...
Cholera El Tor in Latin America, 1991-1993
(1994)
Cholera El Tor appeared in Peru in 1991 and spread rapidly to nearly all neighboring countries. The disease evolved more explosively than anything recorded since the beginning of the 7th pandemic in Sulawesi (the Celebes) ...
Extinction of Vibrio choleare in acidic substrata: contaminated cabbage and lettuce treated with lime juice
(1994)
Lime juice killed Malian of Vibrio cholerae 01, El Tor, Inaba, present on cabbage and lettuce contaminated in the laboratory. The lethal effect was evident within 5 min of exposure to lime juice. No vibrios could be recovered ...
Efectos de la expansión bananera sobre la salud humana y el sistema ecológico
(1993)
Los europeos que arribaron al territorio de Costa Rica, le encontraron virtualmente recubierto de un manto de bosques y selvas milenarios, además de áreas menores de manglares y páramos, y algunos escasos claros con ...
Breast-feeding, weaning and the diarrhoeal syndrome in a Guatemalan Indian village
(Ciba Foundation Symposium 42 (new series) published July 1976 by Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland. pp.311-338., 1976)
Prospective studies in Mayan Indian children living in their natural setting were carried out from 1964 through 1974; observations began at birth and extended at least throughout the first three years of life. Adequate ...
Estado nutricional en Amerindios en Costa Rica 1979-1984
(1985)
Several expeditions were made during the period 1979 -1984 to the Amerindian
localities Limoncito and Abrojo (Guaymi);Cabagra aend Amubri (BriBri); Boruca (Boruca) and Ujarras (Cabecar); in order to evaluate the ...
Sociocultural factors in the control and prevention of parasitic diseases
(Reviews of infectious diseases 4(4):871-879, 1982-07)
Control and prevention of parasitic disease depends on an adequate knowledge of interactions
among factors such as human behavior, the environment, and the life cycles of
parasites. Sociocultural factors in large part ...
Leishmaniasis tegumentaria americana en amerindios de Costa Rica
(1985)
Entre 1979 y 1984 se realizaron estudios clínicos y epidemiológicos en las poblaciones de Limoncito y Abrojo (Guaymi), Cabagra y Amubri (Bribri), Boruca (Boruca) y Ujarrás (Cabecar). Los estudios clínicos consistieron en ...