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Evaluación de la influencia de la estacionalidad climática en calidad del agua de consumo humano en un sistema de abastecimiento en San José, costa rica, periodo 2017-2018
Evaluation of climatic seasonal influence on the quality of water for human consumption in a San José (Costa Rica) supply system, 2017-2018
(2019)
Objetivo: Analizar el estado y la influencia de la variabilidad climática en la calidad del agua de un sistema de abastecimiento para consumo humano en San José, Costa Rica, captado en cuatro microcuencas del cantón Vásquez ...
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 ...
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. ...
Adverse childhood experiences and physiological wear-and-tear in midlife: Findings from the 1958 British birth cohort
(2015)
Allostatic load (AL) is a measure of overall physiological wear-and-tear over the life course, which could partially be the consequence of early life exposures. AL could allow a better understanding of the potential ...
Social gradient in cancer incidence in Costa Rica: Findings from a national population-based cancer registry
(2020)
Background: The main evidence regarding social inequalities in cancer risk comes from industrialized countries. The aim of this manuscript was to analyze the association between cancer incidence and socioeconomic position ...
Effect of an In Vitro Digestion on the Antioxidant Capacity of a Microfiltrated Blackberry Juice (Rubus adenotrichos)
(2018)
The health benefits attributed to berries are largely dependent on their bioavailability. This study evaluated the antioxidant activity for different samples of blackberry juice submitted to an in vitro digestion. The HPLC ...
Measuring Socioeconomic Position From The Social Inequalities In Health Perspective?: The Case of Costa Rica
¿Cómo medir la posición socioeconómica en el marco de las inequidades sociales de salud?: El caso de Costa Rica
(2019-05-20)
Introduction: Measuring socioeconomic position (SEP) is central in the analysis of social inequalities in health (SIH). It requires the use of updated instruments, adapted to a particular conceptual framework, taking into ...
The TNF-A–857*T polymorphism is associated with gastric adenocarcinoma risk in a Costa Rican population
(2021-01)
Background: Costa Rica is ranked as one of the countries with highest incidence of gastric cancer worldwide. Previous
studies in Costa Rican populations have revealed associations between gastric cancer risk and several ...
Ejercicio y algunos mecanismos moleculares que subyacen a una mejora del desempeño en tareas cognitivas
Exercise and some molecular mechanisms that underlie performance increase on cognitive tasks
(2020)
Potenciar el aprendizaje y la memoria se ha convertido en una tarea de
interés para muchos investigadores. Artículos recientes han podido comprobar
que el ejercicio es una clara herramienta para mejorar capacidades ...
Consumo de embutidos en mujeres costarricenses: efecto del nivel socioeconómico
Intake of processed meats by Costa Rican women: effect of socioeconomic status
(2021)
Introducción: El consumo de embutidos se ha asociado con serios problemas de salud que son comunes entre la población femenina. En el 2015 la Agencia Internacional para la Investigación en Cáncer clasificó los
embutidos, ...