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    • Improvement of ethological methods for integrated management of fruit flies, Anastrepha spp. (Diptera: Tephritidae) in fruit orchards in the Dominican Republic 

      Serra C.A.; Ogando, F (Acta Horticulturae, 2015-03-25)
      During the last decade in the Dominican Republic, research efforts have been carried out to contribute to the ethological and biological components of the integrated pest management of fruit flies (FF) in mango, guava and ...

    • In situ assessment of superficial moisture condition in façades of historic building using non-destructive techniques 

      Ruiz Valero, Letzai; Flores Sasso, Virginia; Prieto Vicioso, Esteban (Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2019-02-12)
      In historic building the water resistance capacity of their external materials is a relevant property that must be known, because the materials play a fundamental role in the interaction with the external environment. ...

    • Incidencia del Ciberbullying en niños/ as y adolescentes de instituciones educativas privadas del Distrito Educativo 15-03 de la ciudad de Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. 

      Peña Vásquez, Jesús; Garcés, Julia (Educación Superior, 2014)
      En cada curso escolar la violencia recorre un incesante camino dejando manifestaciones alarmantes en alumnos, profesores o cualquier otro miembro de la comunidad educativa. El Ciberbullying como nueva forma de mal uso de ...

    • Ingol diterpene ester from the latex of Euphorbia lactea 

      Ahmed, Ahmed A; Couladis, Maria; Mahmoud, Ahmed A; de Adams, Alicia; Mabry, Tom J (Fitoterapia, 1999-04)
      The stereochemistry of the ingol diterpene 3,12-di-O-acetyl-8-O-tigloyl-ingol (1), isolated from the latex of Euphorbia lactea, was determined by one- and two-dimensional NMR analysis.

    • Inherited 5α-reductase deficiency in man 

      Imperato-McGinley, Julianne; Gautier, Teófilo (ScienceDirect, 1986)
      Study of the syndrome of 5α-reductase deficiency in man has elucidated the importance of testosterone conversion to dihydrotestosterone in sexual differentiation of the male fetus. Insights into specific actions for ...

    • Insoluble vascular amyloid deposits trigger disruption of the neurovascular unit in Alzheimer’s disease brains. 

      Soto Rojas, Luis O.; Campa Córdoba, Berenice; Harrington, Charles R.; Salas Casas, Andrés; Hernandes Alejandro, Mario; Villanueva Fierro, Ignacio; Bravo Muñoz, Marely; Garcés Ramírez, Linda; Cruz López, Fidel de la; Ontiveros Torres, Miguel Ángel; Gevorkian, Goar; Pacheco Herrero, Mar; Luna Muñoz, José (Int. J. Mol. Sci, 2021-04-01)
      Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease, characterized histopathologically by intra-neuronal tau-related lesions and by the accumulation of amyloid -peptide (A ) in the brain parenchyma and around cerebral ...

    • Interpretable Classification of Tauopathies with a Convolutional Neural Network Pipeline Using Transfer Learning and Validation against Post-Mortem Clinical Cases of Alzheimer’s Disease and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy 

      Diaz-Gomez, Liliana; Gutierrez-Rodriguez, Andres E.; Martinez-Maldonado, Alejandra; Luna-Muñoz, Jose; Cantoral-Ceballos, Jose A.; Ontiveros-Torres, Miguel A. (MDP, 2022-11-22)
      Neurodegenerative diseases, tauopathies, constitute a serious global health problem. The etiology of these diseases is unclear and an increase in their incidence has been projected in the next 30 years. Therefore, the ...

    • Intragastric balloon 

      Pena Sahdala, Nicole (Springer Link, 2016)
      Obesity is a serious, complex disease and both its treatment and management have remained a global medical challenge. It has been proven that obesity reduces the quality of life as well as life expectancy in patients and ...

    • Intravenous tocilizumab in the management of rheumatoid arthritis: Clinical practice findings from a 6-month international, multicentre, observational study in Central America and the Caribbean 

      Ortega-Gómez, Alma-Xochitl; Sanabria-Castro, Alfredo; Alpízar-Campos, Raúl; Guerra-Bautista, Generoso; Méndez-Rodríguez, José-Alexis; Munoz-Louis, Roberto; Chávez-Pérez, Nilmo; Cajas-Melgar, Erwin-Stuardo; González-Sevillano, Edgardo; López-Barquero, Alejandra (Revista Colombiana de Reumatología, 2020)
      Tocilizumab (TCZ), an interleukin-6 receptor-α inhibitor, is indicated in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis with inadequate response to disease modifying drugs. ACT UP is a multinational project collecting ...

    • Intrinsic capacity and its associations with incident dependence and mortality in 10/66 Dementia Research Group studies in Latin America, India, and China: A population-based cohort study 

      Jacob, K. S.; Jimenez-Velazquez, Ivonne Z.; Jotheeswaran, A. T.; Llibre Rodriguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Acosta, Isaac; Mayston, Rosie; Liu, Zhaorui; Llibre-Guerra, Jorge J.; Prinai, A.Matthew; Valhuerdi, Adolfo; Liu, Zhaorui; Prina, A. Matthew; Valhuerdi, Adolfo (Plos Medicine, 2021)
      The World Health Organization (WHO) has reframed health and healthcare for older people around achieving the goal of healthy ageing. The recent WHO Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) guidelines focus on maintaining ...

    • The Jefferson scale of empathy: measurement properties, underlying components, norms, and cutoff points in dentistry students in latin america. A multicentric study. 

      Díaz Narváez, Víctor P.; Pedrero Castillo, Víctor; Reyes Reyes, Alejandro; Padilla, Mariela; González-Martínez, Farith; Huberman, Joyce; Calzadilla Núñez, Aracelis; Silva Vetri, María G.; Villalba, Silvina B.; Ulloque, María J.; Erazo Coronado, Ana María; López Tagle, Elizabeth; Sánchez Jiménez, Laura; Bullen Cabrera, Miriam; Salcedo Rioja, Rita; Gutiérrez, Fredy; Bilbao Ramírez, Jorge; Carrasco Mardones, Doris; Torres Martínez, Pilar; Sarabia Álvarez, Pablo A. (Interciencia, 2021-05-07)
      The empathy observed by practicing health professionals is the product of the quality of empathic training received from the beginning of their studies. Such training is a problem that must be considered from the early ...

    • Latin America intensive care unit disaster preparedness: results from a web‑based attitudes and perceptions survey 

      Báez, Amado Alejandro; McIntyre, Kaitlin (International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science | Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow, 2019-11-11)
      Disasters burden on hospital emergency intensive care units (ICUs). This burden is increased in Latin America (LATAM) where hospital resources, intrahospital disaster simulations, and perceived level of preparedness vary ...

    • Latin American anaphylaxis registry 

      Jares, Edgardo J.; Cardona, Victoria; Gómez, Maximiliano; Bernstein, Jonathan A.; Rosario Filho, Nelson A.; Cherrez-Ojeda, Ivan; Ensina, Luis Felipe; De Falco, Alicia; Díaz, María C.; Chávez Vereau, Pierre A.; Rocha Felix, Mara M.; Lavrut, Jorge; Moreno Laflor, Oscar I.; Latour Staffeld, Patricia; Piraino, Pedro; Alacaraz Duarte, Perla; Ivancevich, Juan C.; Dabove, Fabian; Giavina-Bianchi, Pedro; Tinoco Moran, Iván O.; Nunes Oliviera, Fabiana A.; Monsell, Silvana; Souza, María V.; Cepeda, Alfonso M.; Slullitel, Pablo D.; Morfin-Maciel, Blanca M. (Elsevier Inc. on behalf of World Allergy Organization., 2023-01-23)
      Recent data about clinical features, triggers and management of anaphylaxis in Latin America is lacking. To provide updated and extended data on anaphylaxis in this region. An online questionnaire was used, with 67 ...

    • Latin American Association for the study of the liver recommendations on treatment of Hepatitis C 

      Méndez-Sánchez, Nahum; Paraná, Raymundo; Cheinquer, Hugo; Alves de Mattos, Angelo; Gadano, Adrian; Silva, Marcelo; Pessôa, Mario G.; Gomes-Ferraz, Maria L.; Soza, Alejandro; Mendes-Correa, M. Cassia; Chávez-Tapia, Norberto C.; Dagher, Lucy; Padilla, Martín; Hernandez, Nelia; Sánchez-Avila, Juan F.; Contreras, Fernando; Moraes-Coelho, Henrique S.; Paris, Edison R.; Paris, Edison R.; Bessone, Fernando; Uribe, Misael (Annals of Hepatology, 2014-08)
      The following recommendations provide an approach to the establishment of guidelines for the diagnosis, management, and treatment of hepatitis C virus infection. These guidelines are based on a formal analysis and review ...

    • Latin American initiative for lifestyle intervention to prevent cognitive decline (LatAm-FINGERS): study design and harmonization 

      Crivelli, Lucia; Calandri, Luis; Kimie Suemoto, Claudia; Salinas, Rosa María; Velilla, Lina Marcela; Sanches Yassuda, Mônica; Caramelli, Paulo; Lopera, Francisco; Nitrini, Ricardo; Sevlever, Gustavo Emilio; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Acosta, Daisy; Charamelo Baietti, Ana María; Cusicanqui, María Isabel; Custodio, Nilton; De Simone, Sergio Dansilio; Delgado Derio, Carolina; Duque-Peñailillo, Lissette; Duran, Juan Carlos; Jiménez-Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Leon-Salas, Jorge Mario; Bergamo, Yanina; Florencia Clarens, María; Damian, Andrés; Demey, Ignacio; Belén Helou, María; Márquez, Carlos; Martin, María Eugenia; Morais Martin, Maria da Graça; Querze, Diego; Surace, Ezequiel Ignacio; Acosta-Egea, Sabrina; Aguirre–Salvador, Esteban; da Cunha Peixoto Cançado, Gustavo Henrique; Dozzi Brucki; Dozzi Brucki, Sonia Maria; Vasconcelos Friedlaender, Clarisse; Braga Gomes, Karina; Gutierrez, Myriam; Laforcada Ríos, Carlos; Martinez Galindo, Joyce Graciela; Montesinos, Rosa; Nuñez-Herrera, Alberto; Ospina-Henao, Sebastián; Rodríguez, Guillermina; Ruiz Masson, Victoria; Sánchez, Mónica; Christian E. Schenk, Christian; Soto, Ligia; Tonidandel Barbosa, Maira; Gonçalves Tosatti, Jéssica Abdo; Vicuña, Yosselin; Espeland, Mark; Hakansson, Krister; Kivipelto, Miia; Baker, Laura; Snyder, Heather; Carrillo, María; Allegri, Ricardo Francisco (Alzheimer's Association®, 2023-05-19)
      Latin American Initiative for Lifestyle Intervention to Prevent Cognitive Decline (LatAm-FINGERS) is the first non-pharmacological multicenter randomized clinical trial (RCT) to prevent cognitive impairment in Latin America ...

    • Learnings from real-life experience of using omalizumab for chronicurticaria in Latin America 

      Cherrez Ojeda, Iván; Maurer, Marcus; Bernstein, Jonathan A; Vanegas, Emanuel; Félix, Miguel; Ramón, Germán D.; Ensina, Luis Felipe; Larco Sousa, José Ignacio; Matos Benavides, Edgar Emilio; Cardona Villa, R.; Latour Staffeld, P.; Morfin-Maciel, Blanca María; Mori, José; Wilches C, Paul; Mata, Valeria L.; Cherrez, Annia (Elsevier, 2019-01-08)
      Updated urticaria guidelines recommend that patients should be assessed for disease activity, severity, control, and quality of life at baseline and follow up. Regarding treatment, guidelines consider second generation ...

    • Leg length, skull circumference, and the incidence of dementia in Latin America and China: a 10/66 population-based cohort study 

      Prince, Martin J.; Acosta, Daisy; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jiménez- Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Llibre Rodriguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Dewey, Michael E.; Guerchet, Maelenn M.; Liu, Zhaorui; Llibre Guerra, Jorge J.; Prina, A. Matthew (PLOS ONE, 2018-04-18)
      Adult leg length is influenced by nutrition in the first few years of life. Adult head circumference is an indicator of brain growth. Cross-sectional studies indicate inverse associations with dementia risk, but there ...

    • Levels of chlorinated hydrocarbons and trace metals in bivalves and nearshore sediments from the Dominican Republic 

      Sbriz, Luciano; Aquino, Margarita R.; Alberto de rodriguez, Natividad M.; Fowler, Scott W.; Sericano, Jose L. (Marine Pollution Bulletin, 1998-12)
      Bivalves (Crassostrea rizhophorae, Isognomon alatus, Codakia orbicularis Linné, and Tellina fausta) and sediment samples collected from 12 locations along the Dominican Republic coastline were used to assess the degree of ...

    • Liver injury after methylprednisolone pulses: A disputable cause of hepatotoxicity. A case series and literature review 

      Zoubek, Miguel Eugenio; Pinazo Bandera, José; Ortega Alonso, Aida; Hernández, Nelia; Crespo, Javier; Contreras, Fernando; Medina Cáliz, Inmaculada; Sanabria Cabrera, Judith; Sanjuan Jiménez, Rocìo; González Jiménez, Andrés; García Cortés, Miren; Lucena, M Isabel; Andrade, Raúl J; Robles Díaz, Mercedes (United European Gastroenterology Journal, 2019-02-17)
      Corticosteroids are often empirically used to treat idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity with severe features. Interestingly, intravenous methylprednisolone (MP) is increasingly being recognized as being responsible for liver ...

    • Loneliness among older adults in Latin America, China, and India: prevalence, correlates and association with mortality 

      Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jimenez-Velazquez, Ivonne Z.; Llibre Rodriguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Williams, Joseph D.; Liu, Zhaorui; Acosta Castillo, Isaac; Mayston, Rosie; Gao, Qian; Prina, Matthew; Prince, Martin; Acosta, Daisy; Sosa, Ana Luisa (International Journal of Public Health, 2021-03)
      This study was designed to explore prevalence and correlates of selfreported loneliness and to investigate whether loneliness predicts mortality among older adults (aged 65 or above) in Latin America, China and India. The ...