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    • Cuba’s cardiovascular risk factors: international comparison of levels and education gradients 

      DieciI, Maria; Llibre-Rodriguez, Juan J; Acosta, Daisy; Dow, William H. (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, ...

    • Endoscopic sutured gastroplasty: procedure evolution from first-in-man cases through current technique 

      Kumar, Nitin; Abu Dayyeh, Barham K; Lopez-Nava Breviere, Gontrand; Galvao Neto, Manoel P; Sahdala, Nicole P; Shaikh, Sohail N.; Hawes, Robert H.; Gostout, Christopher J.; Goenka, Mahesh K.; Orillac, Jorge R.; Alvarado, Alonso; Jirapinyo, Pichamol; Zundel, Natan; Thompson, Christopher C. (PublMed, 2018)
      Endoscopic sutured gastroplasty (ESG) has evolved over time. With the advent of full-thickness endoscopic suturing, an efficient technique for ESG was developed and refined. This prospective first-in-man trial started in ...

    • 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 ...

    • Overweight and obesity: review and update 

      Quintero, Fernando Sarmiento; Ariza, Adolfo J; García, Fabiola Barboza; De Molano, Nelly Canal; Benavides, Mayra Castro; Muñoz, Sylvia Cruchet; Carbajal, Laura Delgado; Olivera, María Rita Dewaele; Fernández, Adriana; Heller, Solange; Meléndez, Liliana Ladino; Martínez, Sonia Miriam (Acta Gastroenterológica Latinoamericana, 2016-06)
      Obesity is an epidemic with important health repercussions in addition to high treatment-related costs. Between 2006 and 2007 the WHO developed new assessment tools, which aren’t being globally used. In fact, there is no ...