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Browsing by Subject "Follow-Up Studies"
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(American Medical Association, 2014)IMPORTANCE: This study evaluates a technique to estimate cleft severity and tissue hypoplasia in patients with cleft palate. Current classifications are limited to the morphologic characterstics of the clefts. A new ...
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(Elsevier, 2016)BACKGROUND: Over one-quarter of the world's adult population has hypertension, yet achieving adequate treatment or control targets remains a challenge. OBJECTIVE: This study sought to identify, longitudinally, characteristics ...
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(BMJ Publishing Group, 2013)Background Biomass fuels are used for cooking in the majority of rural households worldwide. While their use is associated with an increased risk of lung diseases and all-cause mortality, the effects on cardiovascular ...
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(Elsevier, 2011)Introduction: Pneumonia and diarrhoea are leading causes of death in children. There is a need to develop effective interventions. Objective: We present the design and baseline findings of a community-randomised controlled ...
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(Wiley, 2014)Objectives: Although the harmful effects of smoking on periodontal disease and oral cancer are now indisputable, its effect on dental caries is less well known. This study assessed whether daily smoking predicts caries ...
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(American Society for Microbiology, 2012)Taenia solium causes taeniasis and cysticercosis, a zoonotic complex associated with a significant burden of epilepsy in most countries. Reliable diagnosis and efficacious treatment of taeniasis are needed for disease ...
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Effect of a community popular opinion leader HIV/STI intervention on stigma in urban, coastal Peru (Springer, 2011)Evaluating interventions that reduce HIV stigma may help to craft effective stigma-reduction programs. This study evaluates the effects of a community popular opinion leader HIV/STI intervention on stigma in urban, coastal ...
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(Springer Nature, 2020)Replacement of regular salt with potassium-enriched substitutes reduces blood pressure in controlled situations, mainly among people with hypertension. We report on a population-wide implementation of this strategy in a ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2017)OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of a fish protein isolate (FPi), administered over 6 months, on the growth of children aged 6-36 months, measured by Z-scores of height-for-age (HAZ) and weight-for-height (WHZ), compared ...
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(Elsevier, 2015)The exercise heart rate (HR) profile and its relation to cardiac function and arrhythmias were investigated in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC). Chronotropic response (CR) and heart rate recovery (HRR) were ...
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(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2014)Childhood diarrhea is an important cause of malnutrition, which can be worsened when caretakers limit nutritional support. We queried 390 caregivers and their children in a peri-urban community in Lima, Peru regarding ...
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(Elsevier, 2016)BACKGROUND: The study aims were to estimate the incidence and risk factors for T2D in four settings with different degree of urbanization and altitude in Peru. METHODS: Prospective cohort study conducted in urban, semi-urban, ...
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(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)BACKGROUND: Most of the data regarding the burden of hypertension in low-income and middle-income countries comes from cross-sectional surveys instead of longitudinal studies. We estimated the incidence of, and risk factors ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2012)Background: Sexually Transmitted diseases (STD) syndrome management has been one cornerstone of STD treatment. Persons with STD symptoms in many countries, especially those with limited resources, often initially seek care ...
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(Wolters Kluwer Health, 2013)Background: Detailed information on the sexual behavior of bisexual, non–gay-identified men and the relationship between same-sex behavior and HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) incidence is limited. This study ...
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(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2013)Lobomycosis is a chronic subcutaneous mycosis for which no standard treatment is available to date.We describe a patient in Peru with lobomycosis on the left earlobe that was successfully treated with posaconazolefor 27 ...
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(Wiley, 2015)Introduction: Long-term survival of HIV patients after initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy (ART) has not been sufficiently described in Latin America and the Caribbean, as compared to other regions. The aim of ...
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(American Society for Microbiology, 2013)We performed a nested case-control study (ratio of 1:4) on the emergence of tigecycline-resistant multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (TR-MDRKP) isolates among patients who initially presented with a tigecycline-susceptible ...
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(Springer, 2015)BACKGROUND: Although migration and urbanization have been linked with higher obesity rates, especially in low-resource settings, prospective information about the magnitude of these effects is lacking. We estimated the ...
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(Elsevier, 2018)OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of TB-LAMP, a manual molecular tuberculosis (TB) detection method, and provide comparison to the Xpert MTB/RIF assay. METHODS: In a large multicentre study, two sputum ...
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