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Reproductive period, endogenous estrogen exposure and dementia incidence among women in Latin America and China: a 10/66 population-based cohort study.
(PloS Medicine, 2018)
Exposure to endogenous estrogen may protect against dementia, but evidence remains equivocal. Such effects
may be assessed more precisely in settings where exogenous estrogen administration is rare. We aimed to ...
Population normative data for the 10/66 Dementia Research Group cognitive test battery from Latin America, India and China: a cross-sectional survey.
(BMC Neurology, 2009)
1) To report site-specific normative values by age, sex and educational level for four components of the 10/66 Dementia Research Group cognitive test battery; 2) to estimate the main and interactive effects of age, sex, ...
The epidemiology of dependency among urban-dwelling older people in the Dominican Republic: a cross-sectional survey.
(BMC Public Health, 2008)
Demographic ageing, and the health transition will soon lead to large increases in
the number of dependent older people in low and middle income countries. Despite its
importance, this topic has not previously been ...
A novel mutation of the human luteinizing hormone receptor in 46XY and 46XX sisters.
(Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 1998)
We repor t a novel homozygous mutation of the LH receptor (LHR) gene in three siblings: two 46XY and one 46XX. The 46XY
siblings presented with female external genitalia, primary amenorrhea, and lack of breast development. ...
5α-Reductase-2 gene mutations in the Dominican Republic .
(Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 1996)
Male pseudohermaphroditism due to 5α-reductase deficiency was clinically and biochemically described in a large Dominican
kindred of 23 families with 38 affected subjects in 1974. Recently, the 5α-reductase-2 gene defect ...
Guía Práctica de la Asociación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Gastroenterología y Endoscopía Digestiva (ACCGED) para el manejo de la Enfermedad por Reflujo Gastroesofágico (ERGE)
(Acta Gastroenterológica Latinoamericana, 2014)
Work related injuries in Qatar: a framework for prevention and control
(Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 2018)
Work related injuries (WRIs) are a growing public health concern that remains under-recognized, inadequately addressed and
largely unmeasured in low and middle-income countries (LMIC's). However, even in high-income ...
Long-term growth hormone therapy in adulthood results in significant linear growth in siblings with a PROP-1 gene mutation.
(Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2004)
PROP-1 g ene mutations result in impaired production of GH, gonadotropins, TSH, and prolactin. We describe three adult
siblings, aged 18-25 yr, with short stature, hypothyroidism, and lack of pubertal maturation, who were ...
Reconsidering the ‘Decline’ of dental student empathy within the course in Latin America
(Acta Medica Portuguesa, 2017)
The controversy over the presence of empathic decline within the course in students of medicine, dentistry and
health sciences in general, has not fully been studied. This controversy could be partially solved if massive ...
Epidemiology of needlesticks and other sharps injuries and injection safety practices in the Dominican Republic
(2007)
Contaminated sharps, such as needles, lancets, scalpels, broken glass, specimen tubes, and other instruments,
can transmit bloodborne pathogens such as HIV, hepatitis B (HBV), and hepatitis C viruses (HCV). Methods: ...