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Frailty as a predictor of mortality: a comparative cohort study of older adults in Costa Rica and the United States
(2023)
Background Frailty is a common condition among older adults that results from aging-related declines in multiple
systems. Frailty increases older adults’ vulnerability to negative health outcomes, including loss of mobility, ...
Estacionalidad de la mortalidad en los trópicos. El caso de Costa Rica, 1970-2016
Seasonal Variation of Mortality in the Tropics. The Case of Costa Rica, 1970-2016
(2019)
El objetivo de esta investigación es determinar la existencia y magnitud de ciclos de variación estacional en la mortalidad de Costa Rica de 1970 a 2016. Metodológicamente, el estudio se basa en microdatos de 630,000 ...