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Educación en salud
(2014-05-19)
Este documento es una propuesta para un programa prevento-educativo que pretende educar a la población de la Región de Occidente del país, sobre cómo hacer un buen uso de los servicios médicos que brinda la Caja Costarricense ...
Factors associated with hypertension prevalence, unawareness and treatment among Costa Rican elderly
(BMC Public Health 8(275):1-11, 2008-08-05)
Background: Reliable information on the prevalence of hypertension is crucial in the development of health policies for prevention, control, and early diagnosis of this condition. This study describes the prevalence of ...
Breast cancer and hormonal contraceptives: collaborative reanalysis of individual data on 53 297 women with breast cancer and 100 239 women without breast cancer from 54 epidemiological studies
(1996-06-22)
Background The Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer has brought together and reanalysed the worldwide epidemiological evidence on the relation between breast cancer risk and use of hormonal contracept ...
Epidemiology of acute diarrhea in Childhood: an overview
(Raven Press p 3-22, 1983)
Much has been learned about the epidemiology of acute diarrheal disease since the folk conceptualization of a syndrome caused by "food indigestion." Despite early recognition of shigellosis, salmonellosis, giardiasis, and ...
Actividad sexual prematrimonial en Costa Rica: incidencia, tendencias y determinantes
Premarital Sex in Costa Rica: Incidence, Trends and Determinants
(1991)
Según un modelo de riesgo en que se utilizaron datos retrospectivos de una muestra nacional de mujeres costarricenses de entre 15 y 24 años entrevistadas en 1986, cada año aproximadamente el 10 por ciento de las mujeres ...
A Second Locus for an Axonal Form of Autosomal Recessive Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Maps to Chromosome 19q13.3
(American Journal Human Genetic ; 68 (1 p. 269-274, 2001)
Autosomal recessive Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) represents a heterogeneous group of disorders affecting the peripheral nervous system. The axonal form of the disease is designated as "CMT type 2" (CMT2), and one locus ...
Phenylketonuria in Costa Rica: preliminary spectrum of PAH mutations and their associations with highly polymorphic haplotypes
(1996)
A preliminary evaluation of the molecular basis of phenylketonuria (PKU) in Costa Rica was made by performing mutational analyses in the six PKU families identified to date. These studies revealed the presence of the ...
The Haemophilus ducreyi cytolethal distending toxin induces DNA double-strand breaks and promotes ATM-dependent activation of RhoA
(Celular Microbiology : 5(10), p. 695-707, 2003)
Among bacterial protein toxins, the cytolethal distending toxins (CDTs) are unique in their ability to activate the DNA damage checkpoint responses, causing cell cycle arrest or apoptosis in intoxicated cells. We provide ...
Sunscreen Use and Sweat Production in Men and Women
(2016)
Context: Sunscreen lotions are important to protect the skin during outdoor exercise, but they may interfere with sweating.
Objective: To measure the effect of two different water-resistant sunscreen products on local ...
Las malformaciones congénitas en Costa Rica: mortalidad, registro y vigilancia
(Acta Médica Costarricense 23(2): 119-131. 1980, 1980)
En un estudio de la mortalidad por malformaciones congénitas en niños menores de 1 año en Costa Rica, en el período de 1970 a 1977, se encontró que la frecuencia de malformaciones aumenta de 4.5% a 14.5%; sin embargo, las ...