Artículos: Recent submissions

  • Spina bifida folate fortification in Brazil, update 2022: a cross-sectional study. 
    Zanon, Nelci; Dos Santos Silva, Rhuann Pontes; Varjão Vieira, Eduardo; Niquen Jimenez, María Milagros; Estevão, Iracema; da Costa Benalia, Victor Hugo; Coelho, Giselle; Salomão, Francisco (Springer, 2023)
    INTRODUCTION: Despite improving maternal-child indicators in Brazil, congenital malformations are still the second cause of mortality in the first years of life. This work aims to compare statistical data before and after ...
  • Species of Monogenoidea from fish species used in aquaculture in the Peruvian Amazonia 
    Murrieta Morey, German Augusto; Tuesta Rojas, Carlos Alfredo; Rodriguez Chu, Luciano Alfredo; Satalaya Arellano, Harvey; Culcos Figeroa, Gabriela Sandy (Elsevier, 2023)
    In the present study it is presented a list of species of Monogenoidea with their fish-hosts used in aquaculture in the Peruvian Amazonia. Fish species were obtained from April 2018 to April 2022 from different artificial ...
  • Climate change threatens our health and survival within decades. 
    Costello, Anthony; Romanello, Marina; Hartinger Peña, Stella Maria; Gordon-Strachan, Georgiana; Huq, Saleemul; Gong, Peng; Kjellstrom, Tord; Ekins, Paul; Montgomery, Hugh (Elsevier, 2023)
    Climate change harms health in all populations. Heat-related illness and deaths are increasing worldwide, from heatstroke, adverse pregnancy outcomes, worsened kidney function, and adverse mental health effects. For those ...
  • Neural Machine Translation for Aymara to Spanish 
    Alanoca H.A.; Aruhuanca Chahuares, Brisayda; Caceres K.A.; Saire J.C. (Springer, 2023)
    There are many native languages in Latin America, over the decades the number of speakers was reduced by the strong influence of the Spanish language. There is a continuous concern for the preservation of these languages, ...
  • Monitoring Indicators of Universal Access to Accessible and Safe Anesthetic and Surgical Care in a Peruvian Region: An Ambispective Study. 
    Shiraishi-Zapata, Carlos; More-Vilela, Yovanky; Villarreal-Álamo, Aldo; Morales-Cuervo, Victor; Gil-Chiroque, Dante; Castillo-Tovar, Jaime; Ramírez-Rios, Dante; Aguirre-Uribe, Salomon; Lecca-Castillo, Joselyne; Garcia, Roxanna; Oyanguren-Maldonado, Mario; Paico-Palacios, Juan; Vite-Quiroga, Arnaldo; Niquen Jimenez, María Milagros (Elsevier, 2023)
    INTRODUCTION: The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery indicators for monitoring anesthetic and surgical care allow the identification of access barriers, evaluate the safety of surgeries, facilitate planning, and assess ...
  • Neural Machine Translation for Native Language Aymara to English 
    Apaza, H.; Aruhuanca Chahuares, Brisayda; Nina, M.M.; Flores, A.; Silva, C.; Tito, E. (Springer, 2023)
    In Latin America, there is a culture called Aymara, which has its own language also named Aymara. It is a native language in danger of extension declared by UNESCO and a heritage of the Peruvian nation. The work of Neural ...
  • Skeletal muscle mass and all-cause mortality: Findings from the CRONICAS cohort study 
    Bernabé Ortiz, Antonio; Carrillo Larco, Rodrigo Martín; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Smeeth, Liam; Checkley, William; Miranda, J. Jaime (Wiley, 2023)
    Objective: We aimed (1) to evaluate the agreement between two methods (equation and bio-impedance analysis [BIA]) to estimate skeletal muscle mass (SMM), and (2) to assess if SMM was associated with all-cause mortality ...
  • COVOX: Providing oxygen during the COVID-19 health emergency. 
    Rubio Grases, Joaquina; Rojas, Christiam; Sanchez, Midori; Gómez-Alzate, Daniela; Córdova, Mauricio; Montoya, Veronica; Castaneda, Benjamin; Chang, Javier; Pérez-Buitrago, Sandra (Elsevier, 2023)
    We introduce an autonomous oxygen concentrator that was designed in Peru to fight the oxygen shortage produced worldwide as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Oxygen concentrators represent a suitable and favorable ...
  • Estimation of Dental Age Using the Kvaal Method with Digital Panoramic Radiographs in Peruvian Adults 
    Izaguirre-López, H.N.; Suarez-Ponce, D.G.; Quezada Márquez, Milushka Miroslava; Nolberto-Sifuentes V.A., Alvarado-Muñoz E.R. (Universidad de Costa Rica, 2023)
    To determine the accuracy of the Kvaal method in the estimation of dental age through the analysis of digital panoramic radiographs of patients between 20 and 47 years of age who attended the stomatological clinic of the ...
  • Cutaneous leishmaniasis treatment and therapeutic outcomes in special populations: A collaborative retrospective study. 
    Castro, Maria Del Mar; Rode, Joelle; Machado, Paulo R L; Llanos Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro; Hueb, Marcia; Cota, Glaucia; Rojas, Isis Valentina; Orobio, Yenifer; Oviedo Sarmiento, Oscar; Rojas, Ernesto; Quintero, Juliana; Pimentel, Maria Ines Fernandes; Soto, Jaime; Suprien, Carvel; Alvarez Romero, Fiorela Yuli; Ramos Ttito, Ana Pilar; Arantes, Rayssa Basilio Dos Santos; da Silva, Rosiana Estefane; Arenas, Claudia Marcela; Vélez, Ivan Dario; Lyra, Marcelo Rosandiski; Saravia, Nancy Gore; Arana, Byron; Alexander, Neal (Public Library of Science, 2023)
    BACKGROUND: Treatment guidance for children and older adult patients affected by cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is unclear due to limited representation of these groups in clinical trials.METHODS: We conducted a collaborative ...
  • Lifelong exposure to high-altitude hypoxia in humans is associated with improved redox homeostasis and structural-functional adaptations of the neurovascular unit. 
    Stacey, Benjamin S.; Hoiland, Ryan L.; Caldwell, Hannah G.; Howe, Connor A.; Vermeulen, Tyler; Tymko, Michael M.; Vizcardo Galindo, Gustavo Andrés; Bermudez Pumasunco, Daniella Inés; Figueroa Mujiica, Romulo Joseph; Gasho, Christopher; Tuaillon, Edouard; Hirtz, Christophe; Lehmann, Sylvain; Marchi, Nicola; Tsukamoto, Hayato; Villafuerte Castrillón, Francisco Carlos; Ainslie, Philip N.; Bailey, Damian M. (Wiley, 2023)
    KEY POINTS: High-altitude (HA) hypoxia has the potential to alter the structural-functional integrity of the neurovascular unit (NVU) in humans. For the first time, we examined to what extent chronic and lifelong hypoxia ...
  • Association of Psychosocial Stress with Risk of Acute Stroke 
    Reddin, Catriona; Murphy, Robert; Hankey, Graeme J.; Judge, Conor; Xavier, Denis; Rosengren, Annika; Ferguson, John; Alvarez-Iglesias, Alberto; Oveisgharan, Shahram; Iversen, Helle K.; Lanas, Fernando; Al-Hussein, Fawaz; Czlonkowska, Anna; Oguz, Aytekin; McDermott, Clodagh; Pogosova, Nana; Málaga Rodríguez, Germán Javier; Langhorne, Peter; Wang, Xingyu; Wasay, Mohammad; Yusuf, Salim; O'Donnell, Martin; INTERSTROKE investigators (American Medical Association, 2022)
    Importance: Psychosocial stress is considered a modifiable risk factor for stroke. Given the prevalence of chronic and acute exposure to stress, it represents a potentially attractive target for population-health interventions. ...
  • Risk of death, hospitalization and intensive care unit admission by SARS-CoV-2 variants in Peru: a retrospective study. 
    Fano-Sizgorich, Diego; Vasquez-Velasquez, Cinthya; Orellana, Laura R.; Ponce-Torres, Christian; Gamboa-Serpa, Henry; Alvarez-Huambachano, Keyla; Gonzales Rengifo, Gustavo Francisco (Elsevier, 2022)
    Objectives: Peru has had the highest death toll from the pandemic worldwide; however, it is not clear what the effects of the different variants on these outcomes are. The study aimed to evaluate the risk of death, ...
  • Drawings as tools to (re)imagine space in interdisciplinary global health research 
    Dens, Stefanie; Nieto-Sanchez, Claudia; De Los Santos, Mario; Hawer, Thomas; Haile, Asgedom; Solari, Karla; Cisneros, Jesus; Vega, Victor; Solomon, Kalkidan; Addissie, Adamu; Yewhalaw, Delenasaw; Otero Vegas, Larissa; Grietens, Koen Peeters; Verdonck, Kristien; Van Acker, Maarten (Frontiers, 2022)
    Understanding the role of space in infectious diseases' dynamics in urban contexts is key to developing effective mitigation strategies. Urbanism, a discipline that both studies and acts upon the city, commonly uses drawings ...
  • Peruvian children toothbrushing during the COVID-19 pandemic 
    Garcés Elías, María Claudia; Beltrán Silva, Jorge Arturo; Del Castillo-Lopez, Cesar Eduardo; Agudelo-Suarez, Andres A.; Leon Manco, Roberto Antonio (F1000 Research Ltd, 2022)
    Background: Toothbrushing is a convenient, inexpensive, widespread and culturally accepted method, resulting in an ideal public health outcome. This study aimed to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on toothbrushing ...
  • New animal models of neurocysticercosis can help understand epileptogenesis in neuroinfection 
    García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Verastegui Pimentel, Manuela Renee; Arroyo Hurtado, Gianfranco; Bustos Palomino, Javier Arturo; Gilman, Robert Hugh; for The Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (Frontiers, 2022)
    Neurocysticercosis (NCC), defined as an infection of the central nervous system (CNS) by the cystic larval stage of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium, remains a major challenge in public health mainly due to associated ...
  • Factors associated with medical students' scores on the National Licensing Exam in Peru: a systematic review 
    Flores Cohaila, Javier Alejandro (Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute, 2022)
    PURPOSE: This study aimed to identify factors that have been studied for their associations with National Licensing Examination (ENAM) scores in Peru. METHODS: A search was conducted of literature databases and registers, ...
  • Association between orthodontic treatment and the occurrence of temporomandibular disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis 
    Coronel-Zubiate, Franz-Tito; Marroquín-Soto, Consuelo; Geraldo-Campos, Luis-Alberto; Aguirre-Ipenza, Rubén; Urbano-Rosales, Laura-Madeleine; Luján-Valencia, Sara-Antonieta; Tozo-Burgos, José-Giancarlo; Arbildo-Vega, Heber-Isac (Medicina Oral, 2022)
    Background: Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are related to a series of clinical manifestations that appear in the form of pain. Currently, there is controversy about the appearance of TMDs after orthodontic treatment. ...
  • Bovine lactoferrin for the prevention of COVID-19 infection in health care personnel: a double-blinded randomized clinical trial (LF-COVID) 
    Navarro Hoyos, Rafaella Alexandra; Paredes, Jose Luis; Tucto, Lourdes; Medina, Carlos; Angles-Yanqui, Eddie; Nario, Juan Carlos; Ruiz Cabrejos, Jorge; Quintana, Juan Luis; Turpo-Espinoza, Kevin; Mejia-Cordero, Fernando; Aphang-Lam, Meylin; Florez, Jorge; Carrasco Escobar, Gabriel; Ochoa Woodell, Theresa Jean (Springer, 2022)
    Lactoferrin (LF) has in vitro antiviral activity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This study aimed to determine the effect of bovine lactoferrin (bLF) in the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 ...
  • The clinical pharmacology of tafenoquine in the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria: An individual patient data meta-analysis 
    Watson, James A.; Commons, Robert J.; Tarning, Joel; Simpson, Julie A.; Llanos Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro; Lacerda, Marcus V. G.; Green, Justin A.; Koh, Gavin C. K. W.; Chu, Cindy S.; Nosten, Francois H.; Price, Richard N.; Day, Nicholas P. J.; White, Nicholas J. (eLife Sciences Publications, 2022)
    Tafenoquine is a newly licensed antimalarial drug for the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria. The mechanism of action and optimal dosing are uncertain. We pooled individual data from 1102 patients and 72 healthy ...

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