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Effect of infection on food intake and the nutritional state: perspectives as viewed from the viIlage
(1977)
Data from a prospective study of a Guatemalan village population revealed an
exceedingly high force of infection which may affect nutrition and growth from gestation onward.
Maternal morbidity was higher and fetal antigenic ...
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 ...
Umbilical Cord Immunoglobulins and Fetal Maturity: Neonates in a Guatemalan Indian Village
(1977)
During a 9-year prospectivestudy in a Mayan Indian village (1), umbilical
cord blood was collected by untrained midwivesfrom most newborns. Specimens
mixed with maternal blood were screened according to their ratios ...
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 ...
Epidemiología descriptiva del cáncer de mama y del cuello de útero en Costa Rica
(1987-05)
Se estudia la mortalidad e incidencia del cáncer de mama y cuello útero en Costa Rica y se las compara con datos de mujeres blancas de los Estados Unidos de América. La mortalidad por cáncer de mama en Costa Rica muestra ...
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 ...
Infection, malnutrition and growth
(1990)
The concomitant appearance of famine and pestilence has been documented in classical religious texts since the beginning of written history. But it was not until recently that the inter-relationships between infection and ...
El diagnóstico prenatal de trastornos genéticos
(1985)
El diagnóstico prenatal de trastornos genéticos, es una de las aplicaciones clínicas de la genética más importantes en la actualidad. En los países desarrollados, se ha convertido en un eslabón fundamental de la atención ...
Relationship of upper body fat distribution to serum glucose and lipids in a Costa Rican population
(1987)
Present models of the relation between subcutaneous fat distribution and serum biochemistries have been based largely on U.S. White populations. To determine interpopulational differences in that relation, we measured 68 ...
Helicobacter pylori in a Costa Rican dyspeptic patient population
(1994-03)
Gastric biopsies from 65 Costa Rican dyspeptic patients were investigated for the presence ofHelicobacter pylori DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of 16S rRNA sequences. Both frozen and paraffin-embedded ...