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Menopause, A Universal Female Experience: Lessons from Mexico and Central America
(Current Women’s Health Reviews 4(1), 3-8, 2008)
In Mexico and Central America, women typically experience menopause up to 10 years earlier than their U.S. counterparts. This may be due in part to numerous pregnancies, long periods of lactation, poor nutrition, extreme ...
Public health implications of low birth weight
(1977)
The present paper interpets the significance of anthropometric data of newborns
from a typical Indian village of Guatemala and from the general population of Costa
Rica. A good correlation exists between a deficient fetal ...
Resultados de la categorización de una muestra de pacientes con diagnóstico de egreso de esquizofrenia
(Acta Médica Costarricense, abril-junio 2002, vol 44 (2), 2002-04)
La esquizofrenia es una enfermedad que afecta aproximadamente al 1% de la población mundial. Es
una de las enfermedades psiquiátricas más debilitantes con un alto costo económico, social, familiar y personal.
En Costa ...
Clinical and molecular diagnosis of a Costa Rican family with autosomal recessive myotonia congenital (Becker disease) carrying a new mutation in the CLCN1 gene
(Revista de Biología Tropical 56(1) p.1-11, 2006-08-18)
Myotonia congenita is a muscular disease characterized by myotonia, hypertrophy, and stiffness. It
is inherited as either autosomal dominant or recessive known as Thomsen and Becker diseases, respectively.
Here we confirm ...
Infections and infectious diseases in a malnourished population: a long-term prospective field study
(1977)
The importance of infectious disease and its
role in the shaping of the history of mankind
has been recognized since Biblical times.
Pestilences were recorded in many classical
books, while most religions developed ...
Carcinomas invasores triples negativos de la glándula mamaria: incidencia y características clínico-patológicas
Triple-Negative Invasive Breast Carcinoma: Incidence and Clinical - Pathological Characteristics
(Acta méd. costarric. Vol 52 (2), abril-junio 2010, p.90-95, 2010-04)
Justificación y objetivo: El comportamiento epidemiológico de los tumores malignos del país ha presentado un cambio en los últimos años; el cáncer de mama ha aumentado su incidencia hasta colocarse como el segundo tumor ...
Substance use disorder and schizophrenia: prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics in the Latin American population
Esquizofrenia y trastorno en el consumo de sustancias: prevalencia y características sociodemográficas en la población Latina
(Actas Esp Psiquiatr 2011;39(2):123-30, 2011)
El interés por comprender la co-morbilidad de la esquizofrenia
y el trastorno en el uso de sustancias, ha aumentado
debido al incremento de este diagnóstico, a los
efectos negativos observados en el sujeto y a los ...
The Nicoya region of Costa Rica: A high longevity island for elderly males
(Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vol 11, 2013-11)
Reliable data show that the Nicoyan region of Costa Rica is a hot spot of high
longevity. A survival follow-up of 16,300 elderly Costa Ricans estimated a Nicoya
death rate ratio (DRR) for males 1990–2011 of 0.80 (0.69–0.93 ...
Suggestive evidence for association between L-type voltage-gated calcium channel (CACNA1C) gene haplotypes and bipolar disorder in latinos: a family-based association study
(Bipolar Disorders 2013: 15: 206–214, 2013-02-25)
Objectives: Through recent genome-wide association studies (GWASs),
several groups have reported significant association between variants in
the calcium channel, voltage-dependent, L-type, alpha 1C subunit
(CACNA1C) and ...
Meta-analysis of 32 genome-wide linkage studies of schizophrenia
(Molecular Psychiatry (2008), 1–12, Nature Publishing Group, 2008-12-30)
A genome scan meta analysis (GSMA) was carried out on 32 independent genome-wide linkage scan analyses that included 3255 pedigrees with 7413 genotyped cases affected with schizophrenia (SCZ) or related disorders. The ...