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  • Adherence to pharmacotherapy and medication-related beliefs in patients with hypertension in Lima, Peru 
    Fernandez-Arias, Marta; Acuna-Villaorduna, Ana; Miranda, J. Jaime; Diez-Canseco Montero, Francisco; Málaga Rodríguez, Germán Javier (Public Library of Science, 2014)
    OBJECTIVE: To characterize adherence to pharmacological medication and beliefs towards medication in a group of patients with hypertension in a large national hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Cross-sectional survey among ...
  • Adherence to reduced-polluting biomass fuel stoves improves respiratory and sleep symptoms in children 
    Accinelli Tanaka, Roberto Alfonso; Llanos, Oscar; Lopez Oropeza, Lidia Marianella; Pino, Maria I.; Bravo, Yeny A.; Salinas, Veronica; Lazo Porras, María de los Ángeles; Noda, Julio R.; Sanchez-Sierra, Marita; Zarate, Lacey; da Silva, Joao; Gianella, Fabiola; Kheirandish-Gozal, Leila; Gozal, David (BioMed Central, 2014)
    BACKGROUND: Symptoms of sleep apnea are markedly increased in children exposed to smoke from biomass fuels and are reduced by kitchen stoves that improve indoor biomass pollution. However, the impact of adherence to the ...
  • Admixture in Latin America: geographic structure, phenotypic diversity and self-perception of ancestry based on 7,342 individuals 
    Ruiz-Linares, Andrés; Adhikari, Kaustubh; Acuña-Alonzo, Victor; Quinto-Sanchez, Mirsha; Jaramillo, Claudia; Arias, William; Fuentes, Macarena; Pizarro, María; Everardo, Paola; de Avila, Francisco; Gómez-Valdés, Jorge; León-Mimila, Paola; Hunemeier, Tábita; Ramallo, Virginia; Silva de Cerqueira, Caio C.; Burley, Mari-Wyn; Konca, Esra; de Oliveira, Marcelo Zagonel; Veronez, Mauricio Roberto; Rubio-Codina, Marta; Attanasio, Orazio; Gibbon, Sahra; Ray, Nicolas; Gallo López-Aliaga, Carla Maria; Poletti, Giovanni; Rosique, Javier; Schuler-Faccini, Lavinia; Salzano, Francisco M.; Bortolini, Maria-Cátira; Canizales-Quinteros, Samuel; Rothhammer, Francisco; Bedoya, Gabriel; Balding, David; Gonzalez-José, Rolando (Public Library of Science, 2014)
    The current genetic makeup of Latin America has been shaped by a history of extensive admixture between Africans, Europeans and Native Americans, a process taking place within the context of extensive geographic and social ...
  • Adoption of Clean Cookstoves after Improved Solid Fuel Stove Programme Exposure: A Cross-Sectional Study in Three Peruvian Andean Regions 
    Wolf, Jennyfer; Mäusezahl, Daniel; Verástegui Huasasquiche, Héctor Alfredo; Hartinger Peña, Stella Maria (MDPI, 2017)
    This study examined measures of clean cookstove adoption after improved solid fuel stove programmes in three geographically and culturally diverse rural Andean settings and explored factors associated with these measures. ...
  • Aerobic capacity of Peruvian Quechua: a test of the developmental adaptation hypothesis 
    Kiyamu Tsuchiya, Melisa; Brutsaert, Tom D.; Elías, Gianpietro; León-Velarde, Fabiola; Rivera Chira, Maria Concepcion (Wiley, 2015)
    High altitude natives are reported to have outstanding work capacity in spite of the challenge of oxygen transport and delivery in hypoxia. To evaluate the developmental effect of lifelong exposure to hypoxia on aerobic ...
  • Age and altitude of residence determine anemia prevalence in Peruvian 6 to 35 months old children 
    Accinelli Tanaka, Roberto Alfonso; Leon-Abarca, Juan Alonso (Public Library of Science, 2020)
    BACKGROUND: A Demographic and Family Health Survey (ENDES, for Encuesta Demografica y de Salud Familiar in Spanish) is carried out annually in Peru. Based on it, the anemia prevalence was 43.6% in 2016 and 43.8% in 2017 ...
  • Agreement Between Cardiovascular Disease Risk Scores in Resource-Limited Settings: Evidence from 5 Peruvian Sites 
    Bazo-Alvarez, Juan Carlos; Quispe, Renato; Peralta, Frank; Poterico, Julio A.; Valle, Giancarlo A.; Burroughs, Melissa; Pillay, Timesh; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Checkley, William; Málaga Rodríguez, Germán Javier; Smeeth, Liam; Bernabé Ortiz, Antonio; Miranda, J. Jaime (Wolters Kluwer Health, 2015)
    It is unclear how well currently available risk scores predict cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in low-income and middle-income countries. We aim to compare the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association ...
  • Agreement Between the World Health Organization Algorithm and Lung Consolidation Identified Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Childhood Pneumonia by General Practitioners 
    Chavez, M.A.; Naithani, N.; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Tielsch, J.M.; Khatry, S.; Ellington, L.E.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Gurung, G.; Rodriguez, S.; Checkley, W. (Springer, 2015)
    Purpose: The World Health Organization (WHO) case management algorithm for acute lower respiratory infections has moderate sensitivity and poor specificity for the diagnosis of pneumonia. We sought to determine the feasibility ...
  • Ambulatory blood pressure in untreated and treated hypertensive patients at high altitude: the High Altitude Cardiovascular Research-Andes study 
    Bilo, Grzegorz; Villafuerte, Francisco C.; Faini, Andrea; Anza-Ramirez, Cecilia; Revera, Miriam; Giuliano, Andrea; Caravita, Sergio; Gregorini, Francesca; Lombardi, Carolina; Salvioni, Elisabetta; Macarlupu, Jose Luis; Ossoli, Deborah; Landaveri, Leah; Lang, Morin; Agostoni, Piergiuseppe; Sosa, Jose Manuel; Mancia, Giuseppe; Parati, Gianfranco (Wolters Kluwer Health, 2015)
    UNLABELLED: Blood pressure increases during acute exposure to high altitude in healthy humans. However, little is known on altitude effects in hypertensive subjects or on the treatment efficacy in this condition. Objectives ...
  • Ancient female philopatry, asymmetric male gene flow, and synchronous population expansion support the influence of climatic oscillations on the evolution of South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens) 
    Oliveira, Larissa Rosa de; Gehara, Marcelo C. M.; Fraga, Lúcia D.; Lopes, Fernando; Túnez, Juan Ignacio; Cassini, Marcelo H.; Majluf, Patricia; Cardenas Alayza, Susana; Pavés, Héctor J.; Crespo, Enrique Alberto; García, Nestor; Loizaga de Castro, Rocío; Hoelzel, A. Rus; Sepúlveda, Maritza; Olavarría, Carlos; Valiati, Victor Hugo; Quiñones, Renato; Pérez-Alvarez, Maria Jose; Ott, Paulo Henrique; Bonatto, Sandro L. (Public Library of Science, 2017)
    The South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens) is widely distributed along the southern Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America with a history of significant commercial exploitation. We aimed to evaluate the population ...
  • Anti-Taenia solium monoclonal antibodies for the detection of parasite antigens in body fluids from patients with neurocysticercosis 
    Paredes, Adriana; Saenz, Patricia; Marzal, Miguel-W.; Orrego Solano, Miguel Ángel; Castillo Berrios, Yesenia; Rivera, Andrea; Mahanty, Siddhartha; Guerra-Giraldez, Cristina; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Nash, Theodore-E. (Elsevier, 2016)
    Neurocysticercosis (NCC), an infection of the brain by Taenia solium (Ts) cysts, is the most common cause of adult-onset epilepsy in developing countries. Serological testing consists primarily of varying methods to detect ...
  • Antiparasitic treatment of neurocysticercosis - The effect of cyst destruction in seizure evolution 
    García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Del Brutto, Oscar H. (Elsevier, 2017)
    Antiparasitic agents against Taenia solium cysticercosis have been in use since 1979, although its use has been questioned on the basis that cysts would die naturally and thus treatment-induced inflammation is unnecessary. ...
  • Applying the 2019 European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology/American College of Rheumatology Lupus Criteria to Patients From the LUMINA Cohort: Results From the Multiethnic, Multicenter US Cohort. 
    Ugarte Gil, Manuel Francisco; Pons-Estel, Guillermo J.; Harvey, Guillermina B.; Vilá, Luis M.; Griffin, Russell; Alarcón, Graciela S. (Wiley, 2021)
    OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of the 2019 European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in terms of earlier SLE ...
  • Applying the Triangle Taste Test to Assess Differences between Low Sodium Salts and Common Salt: Evidence from Peru 
    Saavedra García, Lorena María; Bernabé Ortiz, Antonio; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Diez-Canseco Montero, Francisco; Cárdenas García-Santillán, María Kathia; Sacksteder, Katherine A.; Miranda, J. Jaime (Public Library of Science, 2015)
    BACKGROUND: In resourced-constrained settings, daily cooking practices are still the norm. Replacing sodium in regular salt to produce potassium-enriched salts are potential alternative routes to reduce sodium intake, ...
  • Asociación entre ver televisión y obesidad en mujeres peruanas 
    Poterico, J.A.; Bernabé Ortiz, Antonio; de Mola, C.L.; Miranda, J. Jaime (Universidade Estadual de Maringá, 2012)
    Objective: To assess the association between frequency of television viewing, overweight and obesity in a nationally representative sample of Peruvian women. Methods: Secondary analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey ...
  • Aspirin in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery 
    Devereaux, P.J.; Mrkobrada, M.; Sessler, D.I.; Leslie, K.; Alonso-Coello, P.; Kurz, A.; Villar, J.C.; Sigamani, A.; Biccard, B.M.; Meyhoff, C.S.; Parlow, J.L.; Guyatt, G.; Robinson, A.; Garg, A.X.; Rodseth, R.N.; Botto, F.; Lurati Buse, G.; Xavier, D.; Chan, M.T.V.; Tiboni, M.; Cook, D.; Kumar, P.A.; Forget, P.; Málaga Rodríguez, Germán Javier; Fleischmann, E.; Amir, M.; Eikelboom, J.; Mizera, R.; Torres, D.; Wang, C.Y.; VanHelder, T.; Paniagua, P.; Berwanger, O.; Srinathan, S.; Graham, M.; Pasin, L.; Le Manach, Y.; Gao, P.; Pogue, J.; Whitlock, R.; Lamy, A.; Kearon, C.; Baigent, C.; Chow, C.; Pettit, S.; Chrolavicius, S.; Yusuf, S. (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2014)
    BACKGROUND: There is substantial variability in the perioperative administration of aspirin in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, both among patients who are already on an aspirin regimen and among those who are not. ...
  • ASQ-3 scores are sensitive to small differences in age in a Peruvian infant population 
    Chong, K. C.; Zhou, V. L.; Tarazona, D.; Tuesta, H.; Velasquez-Hurtado, J. E.; Sadeghi, R.; Llanos Zavalaga, Luis Fernando (Wiley, 2017)
    Objective: The Ages and Stages Questionnaires Edition 3 (ASQ‐3) are a well‐validated international screen for developmental delays in young children. However, previous studies demonstrate variable scores between children ...
  • Assessing the HIV Care Continuum in Latin America: progress in clinical retention, cART use and viral suppression 
    Rebeiro, Peter-F.; Cesar, Carina; Shepherd, Bryan-E.; De-Boni, Raquel-B.; Cortes, Claudia-P.; Rodriguez, Fernanda; Belaunzaran-Zamudio, Pablo; Pape, Jean-W.; Padgett, Denis; Hoces, Daniel; McGowan, Catherine-C.; Cahn, Pedro (Wiley, 2016)
    INTRODUCTION: We assessed trends in HIV Care Continuum outcomes associated with delayed disease progression and reduced transmission within a large Latin American cohort over a decade: clinical retention, combination ...
  • Assessing the Short-Term Global Health Experience: A Cross-Sectional Study of Demographics, Socioeconomic Factors, and Disease Prevalence 
    Geen, Olivia; Pumputis, Allison; Kochi, Cristina; Costa, Andrew; Stobbe, Karl (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017)
    Interest in short-term global health experiences to underserviced populations has grown rapidly in the last few decades. However, there remains very little research on what participants can expect to encounter. At the same ...
  • Association between chronic conditions and health-related quality of life: differences by level of urbanization in Peru 
    Taype-Rondan, Alvaro; Abbs, Elizabeth Sarah; Lazo Porras, María de los Ángeles; Checkley, William; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Smeeth, Liam; Miranda, J. Jaime; Bernabé Ortiz, Antonio (Springer, 2017)
    PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of urbanization as an effect modifier for the association between specific chronic conditions and number of conditions with health-related quality of life (QOL). METHODS: We analyzed cross-sectional ...

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