• A brief dementia screener suitable for use by non-specialists in resource poor settings-the cross-cultural derivation and validation of the brief Community Screening Instrument for Dementia. 

      Prince, Martin J.; Acosta, Daisy; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jacob, K. S.; Llibre Rodríguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Williams, Joseph D.; Hall, K. S. (International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2011)
      Brief screening tools for dementia for use by non-specialists in primary care have yet to be validated in nonwestern settings where cultural factors and limited education may complicate the task. We aimed to derive a brief ...
    • 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 

      Prince, Martin J.; 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; Jotheeswaran, A. T.; Liu, Zhaorui (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 ...
    • Dietary fish and meat intake and dementia in Latin America, China, and India: A 10/66 Dementia Research Group 

      Albanese, Emiliano; Dangour, Alan D.; Uauy, Ricardo; Acosta, Daisy; Guerra, Mariella; Gallardo Guerra, Sara S.; Huang, Yueqin; Jacob, K. S.; Llibre Rodríguez, Juan J.; Hernández Noriega, Lisseth; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Williams, Joseph D.; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Prince, Martin J. (American Journal o f Clinical Nutrition, 2009)
      Evidence of an association between fish and meat consumption and risk of dementia is inconsistent and nonexistent in populations in developing countries. Objective: The objective was to investigate associations between ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Packages of care for dementia in low- and middle-income countries. 

      Prince, Martin J.; Acosta, Daisy; Castro-Costa, E.; Jackson, J.; Shaji, K. S. (PolS Medicine, 2009)
      This is the fifth in a series of articles highlighting the delivery of "packages of care" for mental health disorders in low- and middle-income countries. Packages of care are combinations of treatments aimed at improving ...
    • Strain and its correlates among carers of people with dementia in low-income and middle-income countries. A 10/66 Dementia Research Group population-based survey. 

      Prince, Martin J.; Brodaty, Henry; Uwakwe, Richard; Acosta, Daisy; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jacob, K. S.; Llibre Rodríguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Williams, Joseph D.; Jotheeswaran, A. T.; Liu, Zhaorui (International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2012)
      In a multi-site population-based study in several middle-income countries, we aimed to investigate relative contributions of care arrangements and characteristics of carers and care recipients to strain among carers of ...