ListarArtículos por tema "América Latina"

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    • The 10/66 Dementia Research Group's fully operationalised DSM-IV dementia computerized diagnostic algorithm, compared with the 10/66 dementia algorithm and a clinician diagnosis: a population validation study 

      Prince, Martin J.; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Acosta, Daisy; Albanese, Emiliano; Arizaga, Raúl; Dewey, Michael; Gavrilova, Svetlana I.; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jacob, KS; Krishnamoorthy, ES; McKeigue, Paul; Llibre Rodriguez, Juan; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Sousa, Renata MM; Stewart, Robert; Uwakwe, Richard (BMC Public Health, 2007-07-20)
      Latin America, China and India are experiencing unprecedentedly rapid demographic ageing with an increasing number of people with dementia. The 10/66 Dementia Research Group's title refers to the 66% of people with dementia ...

    • Accesibilidad alimentaria en Centroamérica y República Dominicana 

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

    • Alcoholrelated liver disease clinical practice guidelines by the Latin American Association for the Study of the Liver ALEH. 

      Araba, Juan Pablo; Roblero, Juan Pablo; Altamirano, José; Bessonef, Fernando; Chaves Araújo, Roberta; Higuera de la Tijera, Fátima; Restrepoi, Juan Carlos; Torre, Aldo; Urzual, Alvaro; Simonetto, Douglas A.; Abraldes, Juan G.; Méndez Sánchez, Nahum; Contreras, Fernando; Lucey, Michael R.; Shahb, Vijay H.; Cortez Pinto, Helena; Bataller, Ramón (Elsevier España, 2019)
      Alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) is a major cause of advanced chronic liver disease in Latin-America, although data on prevalence is limited. Public health policies aimed at reducing the alarming prevalence of alcohol ...

    • Biomarkers for dementia in Latin American countries: Gaps and opportunities 

      Parra, Mario A.; Orellana, Paulina; León, Tomás; Cabello, Victoria; Henriquez, Fernando; Gómez, Rodrigo; Aválos, Constanza; Damian, Andrés; Slachevsky, Andrea; Ibañez, Agustín; Zetterberg, Henrik; Tijms, Betty M.; Yokoyama, Jennifer S.; Piña-Escudero, Stefanie D.; Cochran, J. Nicholas; Matallana, Diana L.; Acosta, Daisy; Allegri, Ricardo; Arias-Suárez, Bianca P.; Barra, Bernardo; Behrens, Maria Isabel; Brucki, Sonia M.; Busatto, Geraldo; Caramelli, Paulo; Castro-Suarez, Sheila; Contreras, Valeria; Custodio, Nilton; Dansilio, Sergio; Cruz-Puebla, Myriam de la; Cruz de Souza, Leonardo; Díaz, Monica M.; Duque, Lissette; Farías, Gonzalo A.; Ferreira, Sergio T.; Guimet, Nahuel Magrath; Kmaid, Ana; Lira, David; Lopera, Francisco; Mar Meza, Beatriz; Miotto, Eliane C.; Nitrini, Ricardo; Núñez, Alberto; O’Neill, Santiago; Ochoa, John; Pintado-Caipa, Maritza; França Resende, Elisa de Paula; Risacher, Shannon; Rojas, Luz Angela; Sabaj, Valentina; Schilling, Lucas; Sellek, Allis F.; Sosa, Ana; Takada, Leonel T.; Teixeira, Antonio L.; Unaucho-Pilalumbo, Martha; Duran-Aniotz, Claudia (Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 2022-01-15)
      Limited knowledge on dementia biomarkers in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries remains a serious barrier. Here, we reported a survey to explore the ongoing work, needs, interests, potential barriers, and ...

    • Burden of Parkinsonism and Parkinson's disease on health service use and outcomes in Latin America 

      Kim, Dani J.; Rodriguez-Salgado, Ana M; Llibre-Rodriguez, Juan J.; Acosta, Isaac; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Acosta, Daisy; Jimenez-Velasquez, Ivonne Z.; Guerra, Mariella; Salas, Aquiles; Jeyachandran, Christine; López-Contreras, Ricardo; Hesse, Heike (Journal of Parkinson's Disease, 2023-11-03)
      Little is known about the burden of parkinsonism and Parkinson’s disease (PD) in Latin America. Better understanding of health service use and clinical outcomes in PD is needed to improve its prognosis. The aim of the ...

    • Burden of parkinsonism and parkinson’s disease on health service use and outcomes in Latin America 

      Kima, Dani J.; Rodriguez-Salgadoc, Ana M.; Llibre-Rodriguezd, Juan J.; Acostae, Isaac; Sosae, Ana Luisa; Acosta, Daisy; Jimenez-Velasquezh, Ivonne Z.; Guerrai, Mariella; Salas, Aquiles; Jeyachandrank, Christine; Lopez-Contreras, Ricardo; Hesse, Heike; Tanner, Caroline; Llibre-Guerrao, Jorge J.; Prina, Matthew (Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, 2003)
      Little is known about the burden of parkinsonism and Parkinson’s disease (PD) in Latin America. Better understanding of health service use and clinical outcomes in PD is needed to improve its prognosis. Objective: The ...

    • Dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease in Latin America: genetic heterogeneity and clinical phenotypes. 

      Llibre-Guerra, J.J.,; Li, Y; Allegri, R.F.,; Mendez, P.C; Surace, E.I; Llibre-Rodriguez, J.J.; Sosa, A.L; Aláez-Verson, C.; Longori, E.-M.; Tellez, A.; Carrillo-Sánchez, K.; Flores-Lagunes, L.L.; Sánchez, V.; Takada, L.T.; Nitrini, R.; Ferreira-Frota, N.A.; Benevides-Lima, J.; Lopera, F.; Ramírez, L.; Jiménez-Velázquez, I.; Schenk, C.; Acosta, D.; Behrens, M.I.; Doering, M.,; Ziegemeier, E.; Morris, J.C; McDade, E.; Bateman, R.J. (2020-12)

    • Education for the future in Latin American university educational models 

      Benites, Lilliam Enriqueta Hidalgo; Villalba-Condori, Klinge Orlando; Hidalgo, Gema Palmira Gálvez; Rondon, David; Mamani-Calcina, Jorge (Elsevier B.V, 2023)
      The theoretical review article carries out an analysis of the challenges that Latin America faces in the post-pandemic stage in relation to university education, looking to the future, and does so from the reflection of ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • The impact of COVID-19 on the well-being and cognition of older adults living in the United States and Latin America 

      Babulal, Ganesh M.; Torres, Valeria L.; Acosta, Daisy; Agüero, Cinthya; Aguilar Navarro, Sara; Amariglio, Rebecca; Aya Ussui, Juliana; Baena, Ana; Bocanegra, Yamile; Dozzi Brucki, Sonia Maria; Bustin, Julian; Cabrera, Diego M.; Custodio, Nilton; Díaz, Monica M.; Duque Peñailillo, Lissette; Franco, Idalid; Gatchel, Jennifer R.; Garza Naveda, Ana Paola; González Lara, Mariana; Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, Lidia; Guzmán-Vélez, Edmarie; J. Hanseeuw, Bernard; Jiménez Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; León Rodríguez, Tomás; Llibre Guerra, Jorge; Marquine, María J.; Martínez, Jairo; Medina, Luis D.; Miranda Castillo, Claudia; Morlett Paredes, Alejandra; Munera, Diana; Nuñez Herrera, Alberto; Oliveira, Maira Okada de; Palmer Cancel, Santiago J.; Pardilla Delgado, Enmanuelle; Perales Puchalt, Jaime; Pluim, Celina; Ramírez Gómez, Liliana; Rentz, Dorene M.; Rivera-Fernández, Claudia; Rosselli, Mónica; Serrano, Cecilia M.; Suing Ortega, María José; Slachevsky, Andrea; Soto Añari, Marcio; Sperling, Reisa A.; Torrente, Fernando; Thumala, Daniela; Vannini, Patrizia; Vila Castelar, Clara; Yañez Escalante, Tatiana; Quiroz, Yakeel T. (EClinicalMedicine, 2021-03-29)
      In the COVID-19 pandemic, older adults from vulnerable ethnoracial groups are at high risk of infection, hospitalization, and death. We aimed to explore the pandemic's impact on the well-being and cognition of older adults ...

    • The impact of SARS-CoV-2 in dementia across Latin America: A call for an urgent regional plan and coordinated response 

      Ibanez, Agustin; Santamaria-Garcia, Hernando; Guerrero Barragan, Alejandra; Kornhuber, Alexander; Mendonca Marques Ton, Alyne; Slachevsky, Andrea; Teixeira, Antonio Lucio; Mar Meza, Beatriz Marcela; Serrano, Cecilia M.; Cano, Carlos; Arias Gonzalez, Carolina; Gonzalez-Billault, Christian; Butler, Christopher; Bustin, Julian; Duran-Aniotz, Claudia; Acosta, Daisy; Matallana, Diana L.; Acosta-Alvear, Diego; Trépel, Dominic; Franca Resende, Elisa De Paula; Ferreira de Oliveira, Fabricio; Ibanez, Francisco; De Felice, Fernanda G.; Navarrete, Gorka; Tamañas, Ioannis; Meier, Irene B.; Smid, Jerusa; Llibre-Guerra, Jorge; Llibre-Rodriguez, Juan J.; Fajersztajn, Lais; Tadao Takada, Leonel; Duque, Lissette; Okada de Oliveira, Maira; Camargos Bicalho, Maria Aparecida; Behrens, Maria Isabel; Pintado-Caipa, Maritza; Parra, Mario; Z. Wilson, Maxwell; De La Cruz Puebla, Myriam; Custodio, Nilton; Santibanez, Rodrigo; Bernardo Serafim, Rodrigo; Melo Tavares, Ronnielly; Piña Escudero, Stefanie Danielle; Piña Escudero, Stefanie Danielle; Leon Rodriguez, Tomas; Dawson, Walter; Miller, Bruce L.; Kosik, Kenneth S. (Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 2020)
      The SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic will disproportionately impact countries with weak economies and vulnerable populations including people with dementia. Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACs) are burdened with unstable ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...