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  • Association between Human Papillomavirus and Human T-Lymphotropic Virus in Indigenous Women from the Peruvian Amazon 
    Blas Blas, Magaly Marlitz; Alva, I.E.; Garcia Funegra, Patricia Jannet; Cárcamo Cavagnaro, César Paul Eugenio; Montano, S.M.; Muñante, R.; Zunt, J.R. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
    Background: No association between the Human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV), an oncogenic virus that alters host immunity, and the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) has previously been reported. Examining the association between ...
  • Effects of ethnic attributes on the quality of family planning services in Lima, Peru: a randomized crossover trial 
    Planas, Maria-Elena; Garcia Funegra, Patricia Jannet; Bustelo, Monserrat; Cárcamo Cavagnaro, César Paul Eugenio; Martinez, Sebastian; Nopo, Hugo; Rodriguez, Julio; Merino, Maria-Fernanda; Morrison, Andrew (Public Library of Science, 2015)
    Most studies reporting ethnic disparities in the quality of healthcare come from developed countries and rely on observational methods. We conducted the first experimental study to evaluate whether health providers in ...
  • Ethnic inequalities in periodontal disease among British adults 
    Delgado-Angulo, Elsa-K.; Bernabe, Eduardo; Marcenes, Wagner (Wiley, 2016)
    AIM: To explore ethnic inequalities in periodontal disease among British adults, and the role of socioeconomic position (SEP) in those inequalities. METHODS: We analysed data on 1925 adults aged 16-65 years, from the East ...
  • Family income and tooth decay in us children: Does the association change with age? 
    Bernabé, E.; Delgado-Angulo, E.K.; Murasko, J.E.; Marcenes, W. (Karger, 2012)
    This study explored whether the association of family income with tooth decay changes with age among children in the United States. A second objective was to explore the role of access to dental health care services in ...
  • A GWAS in Latin Americans highlights the convergent evolution of lighter skin pigmentation in Eurasia 
    Adhikari, K.; Mendoza-Revilla, J.; Sohail, A.; Fuentes-Guajardo, M.; Lampert, J.; Chacón-Duque, J.C.; Hurtado, M.; Villegas, V.; Granja, V.; Acuña-Alonzo, V.; Jaramillo, C.; Arias, W.; Lozano, R.B.; Everardo, P.; Gómez-Valdés, J.; Villamil-Ramírez, H.; Silva de Cerqueira, C.C.; Hunemeier, T.; Ramallo, V.; Schuler-Faccini, L.; Salzano, F.M.; Gonzalez-José, R.; Bortolini, M.-C.; Canizales-Quinteros, S.; Gallo López-Aliaga, Carla Maria; Poletti, G.; Bedoya, G.; Rothhammer, F.; Tobin, D.J.; Fumagalli, M.; Balding, D.; Ruiz-Linares, A. (Springer Nature, 2019)
    We report a genome-wide association scan in >6,000 Latin Americans for pigmentation of skin and eyes. We found eighteen signals of association at twelve genomic regions. These include one novel locus for skin pigmentation ...
  • Hair follicle characteristics as early marker of Type 2 Diabetes 
    Miranda, J. Jaime; Taype-Rondan, Alvaro; Tapia, Jose-Carlos; Gastanadui-Gonzalez, Maria-Gabriela; Roman-Carpio, Ricardo (Elsevier, 2016)
    Type 2 Diabetes mellitus (DM2) includes a continuum of metabolic disorders characterized by hyperglycemia that causes several chronic long-term complications such as coronary artery disease, peripheral arterial disease, ...
  • Monitoring gender equity in health using gender-sensitive indicators: A cross-national study 
    Diaz-Granados, N.; Pitzul, K.B.; Dorado, L.M.; Wang, F.; McDermott, S.; Rondon, M.B.; Posada-Villa, J.; Saavedra, J.; Torres, Y.; Meules, M.D.; Stewart, D.E. (Mary Ann Liebert, 2011)
    Background: As gender is known to be a major determinant of health, monitoring gender equity in health systems remains a vital public health priority. Focusing on a low-income (Peru), middle-income (Colombia), and high-income ...
  • Prevalence, clinical profile, iron status, and subject-specific traits for excessive erythrocytosis in andean adults living permanently at 3,825 meters above sea level 
    De Ferrari, Aldo; Miranda, J. Jaime; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Davila-Roman, Victor G.; León-Velarde, Fabiola; Rivera Chira, Maria Concepcion; Huicho Oriundo, Luis; Bernabé Ortiz, Antonio; Wise, Robert A.; Checkley, William (Elsevier, 2014)
    BACKGROUND: Excessive erythrocytosis (EE) is a prevalent condition in populations living at high altitudes (> 2,500 m above sea level). Few large population-based studies have explored the association between EE and ...
  • Relative undernourishment and food insecurity associations with Plasmodium falciparum among Batwa pygmies in Uganda: evidence from a cross-sectional survey 
    Lewnard, Joseph A.; Berrang-Ford, Lea; Lwasa, Shuaib; Namanya, Didacus Bambaiha; Patterson, Kaitlin A.; Donnelly, Blánaid; Kulkarni, Manisha A.; Harper, Sherilee L.; Ogden, Nicholas H.; Cárcamo Cavagnaro, César Paul Eugenio; Ford, J.D.; Edge, V.L.; Llanos Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2014)
    Although malnutrition and malaria co-occur among individuals and populations globally, effects of nutritional status on risk for parasitemia and clinical illness remain poorly understood. We investigated associations between ...

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