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Dementia Research in the Caribbean Hispanic Islands: Present Findings and Future Trends
(Front. Public Health, 2021-01-18)
During the last decade, the Caribbean Hispanic islands experienced accelerated demographic aging, representing the fastest aging region within Latin America. Age-related non-communicable diseases, including dementia, are ...
The 10/66 Dementia Research Group's fully operationalised DSM-IV dementia computerized diagnostic algorithm, compared with the 0/66 dementia algorithm and a clinician diagnosis: a population validation study
(BMC Public Health, 2008-06-24)
Background: The criterion for dementia implicit in DSM-IV is widely used in research but not fully
operationalised. The 10/66 Dementia Research Group sought to do this using assessments from
their one phase dementia ...
Present, past, and future of the Latin American Association for the Study of the Liver- Asociación Latino Americana para el Estudio del Hígado (ALEH)
(Annals of Hepatology, 2018)
The mission, functions and scientific activities carried out by Latin American Association for the Study of the Liver (ALEH) are presented. The main scientific meetings held in the member countries are mentioned. The main ...
Cuba’s cardiovascular risk factors: international comparison of levels and education gradients
(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, ...
Tau protein phosphorylated at threonine-231 is expressed abundantly in the cerebellum in prion encephalopathies.
(Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2021-04-02)
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are rare neurodegenerative disorders that affect animals
and humans. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, and Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans belong
to ...
Accesibilidad alimentaria en Centroamérica y República Dominicana
(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 ...
The impact of COVID-19 on the well-being and cognition of older adults living in the United States and Latin America
(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 Jefferson scale of empathy: measurement properties, underlying components, norms, and cutoff points in dentistry students in latin america. A multicentric study.
(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 ...
Patterns and effects of admission hyperglycemia and inflammatory response in trauma patients: a prospective clinical study.
(World J Surg, 2021-05)
The constellation of the initial hyperglycemia, proinflammatory cytokines and severity of injury among
trauma patients is understudied. We aimed to evaluate the patterns and effects of on-admission hyperglycemia ...
The colour of architecture: physical-chemical analysis of polychromy on stone in a 16th century gothic Portal at the Cathedral of Santo Domingo
(IOP Publishing, 2020)
Colour always played a role in the human evolutionary process and has been used as
a way of expression. But the time, the lack of maintenance and abandonment, the lack of
studies related to the presence of polychromy in ...