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    • 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 ...

    • Surgical-orthodontic retreatment of a severe skeletal Class III malocclusion following an orthodontic camouflage 

      Martino, Francisco; Peña, Manuel; Joubert, Rony (Dental Press J. Orthod., 2021)
      Class III malocclusions are some of the most difficult occlusal anomalies to be treated. Some patients with this condition may require orthognathic surgery, while others may be treated with dental camouflage. Proper patient ...

    • From prometheus to element care 

      García Lithgow, Carlos H. (REC Interventional Cardiology ., 2019)
      Se relacionan algunos avances de la medicina. Se menciona programa Element care para adultos mayores . Se reflexiona sobre la atención al paciente.

    • The prevalence and correlates of frailty in urban and rural populations in Latin America, China, and India: A 10/66 population-based survey 

      Llibre Rodriguez, Juan J.; Prina, Matthew; Acosta, Daisy; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jacob, K.S.; Jimenez-Velasquez, Ivonne Z.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Williams, Joseph D; Jotheeswaran, A.T.; Acosta, Isaac; Liu, Zhaorui; Prince, Martin J. (Elsevier Ltd., 2018)
      There have been few cross-national studies of the prevalence of the frailty phenotype conducted among low or middle income countries. We aimed to study the variation in prevalence and correlates of frailty in rural and ...

    • 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 ...

    • Prediction of dementia risk in low-income and middleincome countries (the 10/66 Study): an independent external validation of existing models 

      Stephan, Blossom C M; Pakpahan, Eduwin; Siervo, Mario; Licher, Silvan; Muniz-Terrera, Graciela; Mohan, Devi; Acosta, Daisy; Rodriguez Pichardo, Guillermina; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Acosta, Isaac; Llibre-Rodriguez, Juan J; Prince, Martin; Robinson, Louise; Prina, Matthew (Elsevier Ltd., 2020-04)
      To date, dementia prediction models have been exclusively developed and tested in high-income countries (HICs). However, most people with dementia live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where dementia risk ...

    • Dementia attributable healthcare utilizations in the Caribbean versus United States 

      Li, Jing; Weiss, Jordan; Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Acosta, Daisy; Harrati, Amal; Jiménez Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Liu, Mao-Mei; Guerra, Jorge J. Llibre; Rodriguez, Juan De Jesús Llibre; Dow, William H. (Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2023-11-07)
      Despite the high burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias among the Hispanic population worldwide, little is known about how dementia affects healthcare utilizations among this population outside of the US, in ...

    • 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 ...

    • Barrio de Santa Bárbara. Primer asentamiento informal del nuevo mundo 

      Prieto Vicioso, Esteban; Flores Sasso, Virginia (Intus - Legere Historia, 2020-05)
      En la Española se establecieron los primeros asentamientos europeos en el Nuevo Mundo entre ellos la ciudad de Santo Domingo en 1498, convirtiéndose en la más importante de las Indias y con la mayor población residente de ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Identifying users’ requirements for emergency mapping team operations in small island developing states: Caribbean Perspective 

      Rosario Michel, Gregorio; Manzano Aybar, Fernando; Guzmán, Leris Neris; Villalta Calderón, Christian; Jiménez Durán, Teodoro; Crompvoets, Joep (International Journal o f Geo-Information, 2021)
      Small Island Developing States (SIDS) increasingly face natural hazards that overwhelm their capacity to generate and share spatial-information to reduce human–economic losses. Under such circumstances, the emergency ...

    • 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 ...

    • Empathic diagnosis among medical students in the Dominican Republic: declination and gender 

      Silva-Vetri, M.G; Valdéz, B.S.; Santana, M.R.C; Calzadilla-Núñez, A; Díaz-Narváez, V.P. (Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2021)
      Introduction: Empathic decline is characterized by a decrease in the levels of empathy. Objective: To diagnose empathic behavior in students of the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University School of Medicine, Santo Domingo, ...

    • Dust from the Sahara to the American Continent: health impacts 

      Urrutia-Pereira, Marilyn; Varanda Rizzo, Luciana; Latour Staffeld, Patrícia; Chong-Neto, Herberto Jose; Viegie, Giovanni; Solég, Dirceu (Allergol Immunopathol (Madr)., 2021)
      The Saharan Air Layer is a mass of hot, dry air laden with dust that forms over the Sahara and moves towards the Atlantic Ocean. This air mass contains soil dust particles emitted by the action of winds on the African ...

    • Decline in empathy levels and sex differences in medical students from the Caribbean 

      González-Díaz, Eugenia Smirna; Silva-Vetri, María Guadalupe; Díaz-Calzadilla, Patricia; Calzadilla-Núñez, Aracelis; Reyes-Reyes, Alejandro; Díaz-Narváez, Víctor Patricio (Semantic Scholar., 2021)
      Empathy is an important trait in the training of medical students, as it has been shown that it improves the doctor-patient relationship. To evaluate the decline of empathy levels and possible sex differences in undergraduate ...

    • The biochemical and phenotypic characterization of females homozygous for 5 alpha-reductase-2 deficiency 

      Katz, M D; Cai, L Q; Zhu, Y S; Herrera, C; Defilló-Ricart, M; Shackleton, C H; Imperato-McGinle, J (The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism,, 1995-11)
      The biochemical and physiologic manifestations of decreased 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in females are characterized. Three females from the large Dominican kindred with 5 alpha-reductase-2 deficiency were identified ...

    • Luteinizing hormone pulsatility in subjects with 5-alpha-reductase deficiency and decreased dihydrotestosterone production 

      Canovatchel, W J; Volquez, D; Huang, S; Wood, E; Lesser, M L; Gautier, T; Imperato-McGinley, J (PulbMed, 1994-04)
      The pattern of LH pulsatility in male pseudohermaphrodites with inherited 5 alpha-reductase-2 deficiency (5 alpha RD) and decreased levels of plasma dihydrotestosterone was compared to that in normal males. Analysis of ...

    • Current status and challenges of stem cell treatment for Alzheimer’s disease 

      Pacheco Herrero, Mar; Soto Rojas, Luis O.; Reyes Sabater, Heidy; Garces Ramírez, Linda; Cruz López, Fidel de la; Villanueva Fierro, Ignacio; Luna Muñoz, José (Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2021)
      Neurodegenerative diseases called tauopathies, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy, and Parkinson’s disease, among others, are characterized by the pathological processing ...

    • A compton peak method for incident angle determination in XRF with annular excitation 

      Greaves, E. D.; Sajo Bohus, L.; Marcó, L.; Alvarez, M. (X-Ray Spectrometry, 1992)
      Established methods for measuring the incident angle related to XRF when radioisotope annular sources are involved are briefly discussed. As an alternative technique, a direct measurement of the incident angle from the ...