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    • The epidemiology of dependency among urban-dwelling older people in the Dominican Republic: a cross-sectional survey. 

      Acosta, Daisy; Rottbeck, Ruth; Rodríguez Pichardo, Guillermina; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Prince, Martin J. (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 ...

    • Epidemiology of needlesticks and other sharps injuries and injection safety practices in the Dominican Republic 

      Moro, Pedro L.; Moore, Arelis; Balcacer, Patricia; Montero, Alex; Díaz, Delissa; Gómez, Virgen; Gabic, Zacarias; Weniger, Bruce G. (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: ...

    • Equity in the delivery of community healthcare to older people: Findings from 10/66 Dementia research group cross-sectional surveys in Latin America, China, India and Nigeria. 

      Albanese, Emiliano; Liu, Zhaorui; Acosta, Daisy; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jacob, K. S.; Jiménez Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Llibre Rodríguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Uwakwe, Richard; Williams, Joseph D.; Borges, Guilherme; Jotheeswaran, A. T; Klibanski, Milagros G.; McCrone, Paul; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Prince, Martin J. (BMC Health Services Research, 2011)
      To describe patterns of recent health service utilisation, and consequent out-of-pocket expenses among older people in countries with low and middle incomes, and to assess the equity with which services are accessed and ...

    • Estimadores formales de Bayes en el modelo aleatorio general de clasificación doble cruzado 

      Sahai, Hardeo; Ramírez Martínez, Alcedo A. (Springer Link, 1978)
      Se desarrollaron algunos estimadores formales de Bayes de los componentes de varianza en el modelo de clasificación doble cruzado de efectos aleatorios con una observación por celda. La generalización de tales estimadores ...

    • Estimating impacts on developing countries of the decrease in U.S. training opportunities for foreign medical graduates. 

      Harrigton, William J.; Gotuzzo, Eduardo; Vial, Salvador; Restrepo M., Jorge; Baldi, José; Young, Philip M.; Defilló Ricart, Mariano; Guderian, Ronald; Harrigton, William J. Jr. (Academic Medicine, 1991)
      Between 1973 and 1983, the number of foreign nationals from developing nations who entered the United States for graduate medical education decreased by approximately 90%. Many of those who would have studied in the United ...

    • Estudio de los materiales constructivos de la catedral de Santo Domingo, Primada de América 

      Flores Sasso, Virginia; Prieto Vicioso, Esteban (REHABEND 2016, 2016-05)
      Todos los materiales, incluyendo los de construcción, sufren con el tiempo procesos de envejecimiento que se presentan como degradación y/o deterioro, especialmente los que están a la intemperie o en contacto con el ...

    • Evaluation of Plasma Biomarkers for A/T/N Classification of Alzheimer Disease Among Adults of Caribbean Hispanic Ethnicity 

      Honig, Lawrence S; Suk Kang, Min; Lee, Annie J.; Reyes-Dumeyer, Dolly; Piriz, Angel; Soriano, Belisa; Domínguez Coronado, Zoraida; Recio, Patricia; Rivera Mejia, Diones; Medrano, Martin; Lantigua, Rafael A.; Teich, Andrew F.; Dage, Jeffrey L.; Mayeux, Richard (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 ...

    • Evolution of the Qatar trauma system: the journey from inception to verification 

      Al‑Thani, Hassan; El‑Menyar, Ayman; Mohammad, Asim; Mollazehi, Monira; Abdelrahman, Husham; Parchani, Ashok; Consunji, Rafael; Castle, Nicholas; Ellabib, Mohamed; Al‑Hassani, Ammar; El‑Faramawy, Ahmed; Peralta, Rubén (Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2019)
      Traumatic injuries accounted for substantial burden of morbidity and mortality (M and M) worldwide. Despite better socioeconomic conditions and living standards, the incidence of trauma is rising in the Eastern Mediterranean ...

    • Evolutionary relationships and biogeography of Biomphalaria (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) with implications regarding its role as host of the human bloodfluke, Schistosoma Mansoni. 

      Dejong, Randall J.; Morgan Jess, A. T.; Lobato Paraense, W.; Pointier, Jean-Pierre; Amarista, Manuel; Ayeh-Kumi, Patrick F. K; Babiker, Ahmed; Barbosa, Constança S.; Brémond, Philippe; Canese, Andrés Pedro; Pereira de Souza, Cecilia; Domínguez, Claudio; File, Sharon; Gutierrez, Alfredo; Incani, Nino; Kawano, Toshie; Kazibwe, Francis; Kpikpi, John; Lwambo, Nicholas J. S.; Mimpfoundi, Remy,; Njiokou, Flobert; Poda, Jean Noël; Sene, M.; Velázquez, Luz Elena; Yong, Mary; Adema, Coen M. .; Hofkin, Bruce V.; Mkoji, Gerald M.; Loker, Eric S. (Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2001)
      The wide geographic distribution of Schistosoma mansoni, a digenetic trematode and parasite of humans, is determined by the occurrence of its intermediate hosts, freshwater snails of the genus Biomphalaria (Preston 1910). ...

    • Exploring the natural history of intrinsic capacity impairments : longitudinal patterns in the10/66 study 

      Gonzalez-Bautista, Emmanuel; Llibre-Guerra, Jorge Jesus; Sosa, Ana L; Acosta, Isaac; Andrieu, Sandrine; Acosta, Daisy; Llibre-Rodríguez, Juan de Jesús; Prina, Matthew (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 ...

    • Exsanguination: reliable models to indicate damage control 

      Asensio, Juan A; Dabestani, Parinaz J.; Kessler, John J; Miljkovic, Stephanie S; Peralta, Ruben; Lim, Robert; Galvagno, Samuel; Cancio, Leopoldo (Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, 2023-01-01)
      Exsanguination is a syndrome defined as extreme form of hemorrhage that if not surgically controlled will lead to death. This chapter defines the syndrome and describes the injuries prone to cause this most extreme form ...

    • Extraction of vanadium from petroleum coke samples by means of microwave wet acid digestion 

      Alvarado, José; Alvarez, Moisés; Cristiano, Ana Rita; Marcó, LuéMerú (Elsevier, 1990-01)
      Certified coal standards and Venezuelan petroleum coke samples were submitted to microwave acid digestion to evaluate the convenience of this procedure for the extraction of their vanadium content. The solution and the ...

    • FMNL2 regulates gliovascular interactions and is associated with vascular risk factors and cerebrovascular pathology in Alzheimer’s disease 

      Lee, Annie J.; Raghavan, Neha S.; Bhattarai, Prabesh; Siddiqui, Tohid; Sariya, Sanjeev; Reyes‑Dumeyer, Dolly; Flowers, Xena E.; Cardoso, Sarah A. L.; De Jager, Philip L.; Bennett, David A.; Schneider, Julie A.; Menon, Vilas; Wang, Yanling; Lantigua, Rafael A.; Medrano, Martin; Rivera, Diones; Jimenez‑Velazquez, Ivonne Z.; Kukull, Walter A.; Brickman, Adam M.; Manly, Jennifer J.; Tosto, Giuseppe; Kizil, Caghan; Vardarajan, Badri N.; Mayeux, Richard (Acta Neuropathologica (2022) 144:59–79, 2022-05-24)
      Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been associated with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk factors (CVRFs) during middle age and later and is frequently accompanied by cerebrovascular pathology at death. An interaction ...

    • Food accessibility in Central America and the Dominican Republic 

      Gómez campusano, Ruth Isabel; García Tamez, Carolina (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 ...

    • Frailty and the prediction of dependence and mortality in low- and middle-income countries: a 10/66 population based cohort study. 

      Jotheeswaran, A. T.; Bryce, R.; Prina, A. Matthew; Acosta, Daisy; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Llibre Rodríguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Williams, Joseph D.; Dewey, Michael E.; Acosta, Isaac; Liu, Zhaorui; Beard, John; Prince, Martin J. (BMC Medicine, 2015)
      In countries with high incomes, frailty indicators predict adverse outcomes in older people, despite a lack of consensus on definition or measurement. We tested the predictive validity of physical and multidimensional ...

    • From prometheus to element care 

      García Lithgow, Carlos H. (REC Interventional Cardiology ., 2019)
      Se relacionan algunos avances de la medicina. Se menciona programa Element care para adultos mayores . Se reflexiona sobre la atención al paciente.

    • Gender discrepancy in patients with traumatic brain injury: a rStudy from a level 1 trauma center 

      El-Menyar, Ayman; Mekkodathil, Ahammed; Verma, Vishwajit; Wahlen, Bianca M.; Peralta, Ruben; Taha, Ibrahim; Hakim, Suhail; Al-Thani, Hassan (BioMed Research International, 2022-08-18)
      The objective of this study is to explore the gender discrepancy in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Methods. A retrospective analysis of Qatar Trauma Registry (QTR) was conducted among patients (age ≥14y) who ...

    • Gender identity and hermaphroditism 

      Imperato-McGinley, Julianne; Peterson, Ralph; Gautier, Teófilo (Science, 1976)

    • Glass disk fusion method for the X-ray fluorescence analysis of rocks and silicates 

      Alvarez, Moisés (Wiley Analytical Science, 1990-08)
      A study of the physical and practical aspects needed for a successful solid solution method for XRF analysis is presented in the light of the theory and practice of the glass-making industry. An inexpensive manual glass ...

    • 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) 

      Mezerville Cantillo, L. de,; Cabas Sánchez, J.; Contreras, F.; Castellanos García, L. F.; Dondis C., J. E.; Galdámez, J.; García Maradiaga, R.; Grullón Dickson, F.; Jerez González, L. E.; Mayo DiBello, M.; Mejía Rivas, M. A.; Moreno Padilla, P.; Ovalle Abreu, P. B.; Sánchez Hernández, M. A.; Velasco A., S. R.; Vela, M. F.; Valdovinos Díaz, M. A.; Remes Troche, J. M. . (Acta Gastroenterológica Latinoamericana, 2014)