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Women's Health in Central America: The Complexity of Issues and the Need to Focus on Indigenous Healthcare
(2013-04)The Central American (CA) isthmus consists of seven countries including Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, some of the poorest countries in the world. Over the past ... -
Women’s participation in pap smear screening in a developing country: evidence for improving health systems
(2021-06-15)Introduction: Every year about 83,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer in the Americas. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has one of the highest incidence and mortality rates from cervical cancer in the world. ... -
X-chromosome methylation in manifesting and healthy carriers of dystrophinopathies: concordance of activation ratios among first degree female relatives and skewed inactivation as cause of the affected phenotypes
(1995)The X-chromosome activity states of 11 manifesting carriers of dystrophinopathies, all with normal karyotypes, were estimated by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP)-methylation analysis with the probes M27I3 ... -
X-ray screening seems to reduce gastric cancer mortality by half in a community-controlled trial in Costa Rica
(British Journal of Cancer 97, p. 837 – 843, 2007-10-02)X-ray screening of gastric cancer is broadly used in Japan, although no controlled trial has proved its effectiveness. This study evaluates the impact of an X-ray screening demonstrative intervention to reduce gastric ... -
α-Linolenic acid, Δ6-desaturase gene polymorphism, and the risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction
(2007)Background:Δ6-Desaturase (FADS2) is the rate-limiting step in the polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) biosynthetic pathway. Objective: The aim was to test whether the common deletion [T/-] in the promoter of FADS2 affects ...