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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 ...
Survival and Physical Growth in Infancy and Early Childhood Study of Birth Weight and Gestational Age in a Guatemalan Indian Village
(1975-05)
Many factors contribute independently
or jointly to the cause and
pathogenesis of low birth weight. Attempts
to identify these factors in a
given population, however, are usually
unsuccessful, and conclusions ...
Endometriosis en el canal inguinal
Endometriosis in the inguinal channel. Case report.
(Revista Médica de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Volumen 7, número 1, artículo 6, año 2013., 2013-04-10)
Resumen: Endometriosis se define como la presencia de tejido glandular y estromal endometrial fuera de la cavidad uterina y este tejido ectópico es dependiente de la estimulación estrogénica. Usualmente se presenta en ...
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 ...