ListarArtículos por tema "República Dominicana"
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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 ... -
Accesibilidad alimentaria en Centroamérica y República Dominicana
(Nutr Clín Diet Hosp, 2021-04-21)La accesibilidad a los alimentos está vincu lada con la inseguridad alimentaria. Asimismo, la pobreza es el principal determinante subyacente de la inseguridad ali mentaria del hogar, e incrementa el consumo de productos ... -
Altmetric Original Articles Remote Sensing of Spatial and Temporal Vegetation Dynamics in Hispaniola: A Comparison of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
(Geocarto International, 2001)Spatial and temporal vegetation contrasts between the nations of Haiti and the Dominican are analyzed using NDVI data derived from 30m resolution Landsat imagery and 8km resolution AVHRR imagery from the NOAA / NASA ... -
Assessing SDI implementation scenarios to facilitate emergency mapping operations in the Dominican Republic
(International Journal o f Geo-Information, 2023-04-28)The Dominican Republic (DR) is a small island developing state (SIDS) highly exposed to disaster-risk phenomena, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. The Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) enables coordination and sharing ... -
Assessment of 24 h Sodium and Potassium urinary excretion in normotensive and hypertensive dominican adults
(Nutrients, 2023)Higher salt (sodium) intake has been associated with higher blood pressure (BP). The degree of association may be influenced by factors such as age, origin, and dietary components. This study aimed to evaluate the 24 h ... -
The biochemical and phenotypic characterization of females homozygous for 5 alpha-reductase-2 deficiency
(The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism,, 1995-11)The biochemical and physiologic manifestations of decreased 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in females are characterized. Three females from the large Dominican kindred with 5 alpha-reductase-2 deficiency were identified ... -
Chromatic analysis of the finish of the 17th century wall of the Santo Domingo fortress in Dominican Republic
(University of Cantabria, 2022)The defense system of the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, began in 1503 with the construction of the fortress and Tower of Homage. In 1567 the wall that encloses the fortress was completed, and around 1653 the ... -
Clinical and socioenvironmental characterizations associated with the genealogical analysis of a group of Dominican patients with nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate
(Oral Science International, 2022-01)In the Dominican Republic, there is an important number of individuals affected by nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (NS CL/P); in the search for the etiology, this study sought to determine the inheritance ... -
Comparative analysis of bricks manufactured in the New World (1494–1544)
(CRC Press, 2021)This paper makes a comparative analysis of the first bricks manufactured in the New World during the first 50 years of conquest and colonization (1494–1544). Samples of bricks and tiles were taken from the sites of the ... -
The contribution of chronic diseases to the prevalence of dependence among older people in Latin America, China and India: a 10/66 Dementia Research Group population-based survey
(BMC Geriatrics, 2010-08-06)The number of older people is set to increase dramatically worldwide. Demographic changes are likely to result in the rise of age-related chronic diseases which largely contribute to years lived with a disability and ... -
Cuba’s cardiovascular risk factors: international comparison of levels and education gradients
(PLOS ONE, 2021-03)Cuba’s life expectancy at 79 is third highest in Latin America. Many attribute this to social investments in health and education, but comparative research is sparse, thus we compare Cuba with neighboring Dominican Republic, ... -
Decline in empathy levels and sex differences in medical students from the Caribbean
(Semantic Scholar., 2021)Empathy is an important trait in the training of medical students, as it has been shown that it improves the doctor-patient relationship. To evaluate the decline of empathy levels and possible sex differences in undergraduate ... -
Dementia incidence and mortality in middle-income countries, and associations with indicators of cognitive reserve: a 10/66 Dementia Research Group population-based cohort study
(The Lancet, 2012)Results of the few cohort studies from countries with low incomes or middle incomes suggest a lower incidence of dementia than in high-income countries. We assessed incidence of dementia according to criteria from the 10/66 ... -
Diversidad y composición florística del bosque seco y semideciduo de la Reserva Forestal Guanito, provincia San Juan, República Dominicana
(Acta Botánica Mexicana 130: e2093., 2023-01-19)Se presenta la flora del bosque seco de Cerros del Tabacal y del bosque semideciduo de Loma del Agua de la Reserva Forestal Guanito en la Cordillera Central de República Dominicana. Existen muy pocos registros de las ... -
Epidemiological intelligence fusion centers: health security and COVID-19 in the Dominican Republic
(2022-07-22)Research on health security has focused on how many different political, economic, social, and health-related factors affect disease containment within states. However, largely missing from this scholarship is an examination ... -
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 ... -
Evaluation of Plasma Biomarkers for A/T/N Classification of Alzheimer Disease Among Adults of Caribbean Hispanic Ethnicity
(JAMA Netw Open., 2023)Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma biomarkers can detect biological evidence of Alzheimer disease (AD), but their use in low-resource environments and among minority ethnic groups is limited. To assess validated plasma ... -
Exploring the natural history of intrinsic capacity impairments : longitudinal patterns in the10/66 study
(Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society, 2023)Intrinsic capacity (IC) is a construct encompassing people's physical and mental abilities. There is an implicit link amongst IC domains: cognition, locomotion, nutrition, sensory and psychological. However, little is known ... -
Food accessibility in Central America and the Dominican Republic
(nutrición clínica y Dietética Hospitalaria, 2021)Food accessibility is linked to food insecurity. Likewise, poverty is the main underlying determinant of household food insecurity and increases the consumption of products of little nutritional value, which has consequences ... -
A histochemical and ultrastructural study of human breast carcinomas with a view to their classification by cell of origin
(Experimental and Molecular Pathology, 1979-08)We have studied 450 cases of human breast carcinoma at the histochemical and ultrastructural level. The breast biopsies were obtained from Canada, Mexico and Dominican Republic.This study was undertaken to evaluate the ...