Artículos: Recent submissions

  • Acceptance and uptake of improved biomass cookstoves in Peru – Learning from system level approaches to transform large-scale cooking interventions 
    Nuño, Nestor; Mäusezahl, Daniel; Hartinger Peña, Stella Maria; Riley-Powell, Amy R.; Verástegui Huasasquiche, Héctor Alfredo; Wolf, Jennyfer; Muela, Joan; Paz-Soldan Parlette, Valerie Andrea (Elsevier, 2023)
    Improved biomass cookstoves (ICS) are cooking technologies that increase wellbeing and reduce household air pollution. With the goal of identifying factors influencing ICS acceptance and uptake at five system levels ...
  • Abundance and distribution of potentially toxic phytoplankton in aquaculture sites along the Peruvian coast 
    Cuellar-Martinez, Tomasa; del Rocío Huanca Ochoa, Aurora; Sánchez, Sonia; Aguirre-Velarde, Arturo; Martínez Ocas, Elmer Omar; Rodriguez Velasquez, Angélica María; Saavedra Querevalú, Rosa Isabel; Colas, François; Tam Málaga, Jorge Larry; Gutierrez Aguilar, Dimitri Alexey (Elsevier, 2023)
    The presence of harmful microalgae in aquaculture sites represents a risk for production and human health, so surveillance of these species is relevant for early warning of harmful algal blooms. Here we examine the monitoring ...
  • A Rapid Point-of-Care Assay for Cysticercosis Antigen Detection in Urine Samples 
    Toribio Salazar, Luz Milagros; Handali, Sukwan; Marin, Yazmin; Perez, Erika; Castillo Berrios, Yesenia; Bustos Palomino, Javier Arturo; O'Neal, Seth E.; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo (American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2023)
    We report a proof-of-concept study using a dipstick assay to detect Taenia solium antigen in urine samples of 30 patients with subarachnoid neurocysticercosis and 10 healthy control subjects. Strips were read in blind by ...
  • A pangenome approach-based loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for the specific and early detection of Bordetella pertussis 
    Juscamayta López, Julio Eduardo; Valdivia, F.; Soto, M.P.; Nureña, B.; Horna, H. (Nature Research, 2023)
    Despite widespread vaccination, Bordetella pertussis continues to cause pertussis infections worldwide, leaving infants at the highest risk of severe illness and death, while people around them are likely the main sources ...
  • Rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detection self-tests to increase COVID-19 case detection in Peru: A qualitative study. 
    Torres Slimming, Paola Alejandra; Cárcamo Cavagnaro, César Paul Eugenio; Martínez-Pérez, Guillermo Z.; Mallma Salazar, Patricia Silvia; Pflucker Oses, Cristina Paola; Shilton, Sonjelle (JMIR Publications, 2023)
    BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic heavily impacted many low- and middle-income countries, such as Peru, overwhelming their health systems. Rapid antigen-detection self-tests for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, ...
  • The impacts of social determinants of health and cardiometabolic factors on cognitive and functional aging in Colombian underserved populations 
    Santamaria-Garcia, Hernando; Moguilner, Sebastian; Rodriguez-Villagra, Odir Antonio; Botero-Rodriguez, Felipe; Pina-Escudero, Stefanie Danielle; O’Donovan, Gary; Albala, Cecilia; Matallana, Diana; Schulte, Michael; Slachevsky, Andrea; Yokoyama, Jennifer S.; Possin, Katherine; Ndhlovu, Lishomwa C.; Al-Rousan, Tala; Corley, Michael J.; Kosik, Kenneth S.; Muniz-Terrera, Graciela; Miranda, J. Jaime; Ibanez, Agustin (Springer, 2023)
    Global initiatives call for further understanding of the impact of inequity on aging across underserved populations. Previous research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) presents limitations in assessing combined ...
  • Prácticas evaluativas y representación del perfil de egreso en docentes de educación superior. Experiencias en facultades de educación de Lima - Perú 
    Dávila Díaz, Maria Elena; Fernández Bringas, Teresa Cecilia (Global Knowledge Academics, 2023)
    Este estudio devela la lejanía que existe entre las prácticas evaluativas de los docentes y el perfil de egreso de los estudiantes durante la acción formativa que se brinda en la Educación superior. Mediante un diseño de ...
  • Sugar in ultraprocessed foods in Latin American capitals: From dentistry perspective 
    del Pilar Angarita-Díaz, María; Lopez Ramos, Roxana Patricia; Tipan-Asimbaya, Lissette; Ruiz-Gómez, Adiela; Gonzalez-Bernal, María Alejandra; Vicuña Huaqui, Luis Antonio (Elsevier, 2023)
    Introduction High sugar consumption is associated with dental caries. The objective of this study was to determine the concentrations of sugar and other nutrients in sweetened, ultraprocessed foods from Bogotá, Lima, and ...
  • Transverse Maxillary Deficiency Predicts Increased Upper Airway Collapsibility during Drug‐Induced Sleep Endoscopy 
    Thuler, Eric; Seay, Everett G.; Woo, John; Lee, Jane; Jafari, Niusha; Keenan, Brendan T.; Dedhia, Raj C.; Schwartz, Alan R. (Wiley, 2023)
    To examine the relationship between craniofacial skeletal anatomy and objective measures of pharyngeal collapse obtained during drug‐induced sleep endoscopy. We hypothesized that transverse maxillary deficiency and an ...
  • Percepciones acerca de la presencia de palomas en espacios públicos y su importancia en la salud pública en un distrito de Lima, Perú 
    Arteaga Gracian, María del Carmen Flavia; Asmat, Iván; Leon Cordova, Daphne Jhoanna; Falcon Perez, Nestor Gerardo (Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2023)
    El objetivo del estudio fue describir la percepción de la población sobre la presenciade palomas en espacios públicos y su implicancia en la salud pública. Se elaboró yvalidó por juicio de expertos un instrumento que ...
  • Retención inusual de un endoclip hemostásico por un periodo de 5 años 
    Arantes, V.; Aliaga Ramos, Josué Jesús (Elsevier, 2023)
    Un hombre de 76 años fue sometido a una esofagogastroduodenoscopia (EGD) en 2017 como parte del seguimiento tras una disección submucosa endoscópica (ESD). El examen reveló una cicatriz post-ESD y un pólipo sésil de 4 mm ...
  • Social determinants of transgender women's health 
    Caceres Palacios, Carlos Fernando; Salazar Lostaunau, Ximena (Elsevier, 2023)
    In The Lancet HIV, Andrea Wirtz and colleagues 1 report results of a study that originally focused only on sources of HIV risk among transgender women in the USA, and the added value of digital methods of follow-up. The ...
  • Bioprinting: A Strategy to Build Informative Models of Exposure and Disease 
    Cáceres Albán, Jose Luis Martín; Sanchez, Midori; Casado, Fanny L. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023)
    Novel additive manufacturing techniques are revolutionizing fields of industry providing more dimensions to control and the versatility of fabricating multi-material products. Medical applications hold great promise to ...
  • Prevalence and Factors Associated with Eating Disorders in Military First Line of Defense against COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study during the Second Epidemic Wave in Peru 
    Valladares-Garrido, Mario J.; León Figueroa, Darwin Anthony; Picón-Reátegui, Cinthia Karina; García-Vicente, Abigaíl; Valladares-Garrido, Danai; Failoc-Rojas, Virgilio E.; Pereira-Victorio, César Johan (MDPI, 2023)
    Few studies have evaluated eating disorders in military personnel engaged in defense activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. We aimed to determine the prevalence and factors associated with eating disorders in military ...
  • Intrahippocampal Inoculation of Aβ1–42 Peptide in Rat as a Model of Alzheimer’s Disease Identified MicroRNA-146a-5p as Blood Marker with Anti-Inflammatory Function in Astrocyte Cells 
    Aquino Ordinola, Ruth Elizabeth; de Concini, Vidian; Dhenain, Marc; Lam, Suzanne; Gosset, David; Baquedano Santana, Laura Estefania; Forero, Manuel G; Menuet, Arnaud; Baril, Patrick; Pichon, Chantal (MDPI, 2023)
    Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) have aroused a lot of interest as reliable blood diagnostic biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, we investigated the panel of expressed blood miRNAs in response to aggregated ...
  • Projected decrease in trail access in the Arctic 
    Ford, J.D.; Clark, D.G.; Copland, L.; Pearce, T.; Ford, James D.; Harper, Sherilee; Ford, Lea Berrang; Cárcamo Cavagnaro, César Paul Eugenio; Garcia Funegra, Patricia Jannet; Lwasa, Shuaib; Namanya, Didacus; New, Mark; Zavaleta Cortijo, Claudia Carol; Harper, S.L.; IHACC Research Team (Springer Nature, 2023)
    Transportation systems in northern Canada are highly sensitive to climate change. We project how access to semi-permanent trails on land, water, and sea ice might change this century in Inuit Nunangat (the Inuit homeland ...
  • Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries 
    Calvert, Clara; Brockway, Meredith Merilee; Zoega, Helga; Miller, Jessica E.; Been, Jasper V.; Amegah, Adeladza Kofi; Racine-Poon, Amy; Oskoui, Solmaz Eradat; Abok, Ishaya I.; Aghaeepour, Nima; Akwaowo, Christie D.; Alshaikh, Belal N.; Ayede, Adejumoke I.; Bacchini, Fabiana; Barekatain, Behzad; Barnes, Rodrigo; Bebak, Karolina; Berard, Anick; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Brook, Jeffrey R.; Bryan, Lenroy R.; Cajachagua Torres, Kim Nail; Campbell-Yeo, Marsha; Chu, Dinh-Toi; Connor, Kristin L.; Cornette, Luc; Cortés, Sandra; Daly, Mandy; Debauche, Christian; Dedeke, Iyabode Olabisi F.; Einarsdóttir, Kristjana; Engjom, Hilde; Estrada-Gutierrez, Guadalupe; Fantasia, Ilaria; Fiorentino, Nicole M.; Franklin, Meredith; Fraser, Abigail; Gachuno, Onesmus W.; Gallo, Linda A.; Gissler, Mika; Håberg, Siri E.; Habibelahi, Abbas; Häggström, Jonas; Hookham, Lauren; Hui, Lisa; Huicho Oriundo, Luis; Hunter, Karen J.; Huq, Sayeeda; Kc, Ashish; Kadambari, Seilesh; Kelishadi, Roya; Khalili, Narjes; Kippen, Joanna; Le Doare, Kirsty; Llorca, Javier; Magee, Laura A.; Magnus, Maria C.; Man, Kenneth K. C.; Mburugu, Patrick M.; Mediratta, Rishi P.; Morris, Andrew D.; Muhajarine, Nazeem; Mulholland, Rachel H.; Bonnard, Livia Nagy; Nakibuuka, Victoria; Nassar, Natasha; Nyadanu, Sylvester D.; Oakley, Laura; Oladokun, Adesina; Olayemi, Oladapo O.; Olutekunbi, Olanike A.; Oluwafemi, Rosena O.; Ogunkunle, Taofik O.; Orton, Chris; Örtqvist, Anne K.; Ouma, Joseph; Oyapero, Oyejoke; Palmer, Kirsten R.; Pedersen, Lars H.; Pereira, Gavin; Pereyra, Isabel; Philip, Roy K.; Pruski, Dominik; Przybylski, Marcin; Quezada-Pinedo, Hugo G.; Regan, Annette K.; Rhoda, Natasha R.; Rihs, Tonia A.; Riley, Taylor; Rocha, Thiago Augusto Hernandes; Rolnik, Daniel L.; Saner, Christoph; Schneuer, Francisco J.; Souter, Vivienne L.; Stephansson, Olof; Sun, Shengzhi; Swift, Emma M.; Szabó, Miklós; Temmerman, Marleen; Tooke, Lloyd; Urquia, Marcelo L.; von Dadelszen, Peter; Wellenius, Gregory A.; Whitehead, Clare; Wong, Ian C. K.; Wood, Rachael; Wróblewska-Seniuk, Katarzyna; Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo; Yilgwan, Christopher S.; Zawiejska, Agnieszka; Sheikh, Aziz; Rodriguez, Natalie; Burgner, David; Stock, Sarah J.; Azad, Meghan B. (Springer Nature, 2023)
    Preterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of infant mortality worldwide. Changes in PTB rates, ranging from −90% to +30%, were reported in many countries following early COVID-19 pandemic response measures (‘lockdowns’). ...
  • Hydroxychloroquine to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers: early termination of a phase 3, randomised, open-label, controlled clinical trial 
    Llanos Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro; Schwalb Calderon, Alvaro; Quintana Ruiz, Juan Luis; Delfin, Brian; Alvarez Romero, Fiorela Yuli; Ugarte Gil, Cesar Augusto; Guerra Gronerth, Rosio I.; Lucchetti, Aldo; Grogl, Max; Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo (Biomed Central, 2023)
    OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness and safety of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) prophylaxis for the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthcare workers (HCW) on duty during the COVID-19 pandemic. RESULTS: A total of 68 ...
  • Impact of Reversion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Immunoreactivity Tests on the Estimated Annual Risk of Infection. 
    Schwalb Calderon, Alvaro; Emery, Jon C; Dale, Katie D; Horton, Katherine C; Ugarte Gil, Cesar Augusto; Houben, Rein M G J (Oxford University Press, 2023)
    A key metric in tuberculosis epidemiology is the annual risk of infection (ARI), which is usually derived from tuberculin skin test (TST) and interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) prevalence surveys in children. Deriving ...
  • Randomized Controlled Trial of Home Telemonitoring of Blood Pressure with an Adapted Tensiometer with SMS Capability 
    Calderón Anyosa, Renzo José Carlos; Tincopa Flores, Jean Pierre; Raza García, Mabel Karel; Cárcamo Cavagnaro, César Paul Eugenio (MDPI, 2023)
    Despite being a public health problem, less than a third of hypertensive patients manage to control blood pressure (BP). In this paper, we conducted a two-arm randomized controlled trial to investigate the efficacy of an ...

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