• Toothbrushing and Access to Dental Services in Peruvian Children 

  Hadad Arrascue, Natalie Luz Gabriela; Garcés Elías, María Claudia; Chirinos Caceres, Jesus Lorenzo (SAGE Publications, 2023)

  Objective. The aim was to determine the association between access to dental services and toothbrushing in Peruvian children under 12 years old. Methods. This was a cross-sectional study with a population of 2021 database ...
• The complete mitochondrial genome of the lowland paca (Cuniculus paca) and its phylogenetic relationship with other New World hystricognath rodents 

  Li, J.; Mayor, P.; Santolalla Robles, Meddly Leslye; Greenwood, A.D. (Taylor and Francis, 2023)

  The lowland paca (Cuniculus paca) is a nocturnal, widespread, and solitary large-sized rodent in the family Cuniculidae, and one of the most frequently hunted mammals in the Neotropical forests of Latin America. We assembled ...
• The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on type 1 diabetes: looking back to move forward. 

  Beran, David; Koch, Marta; Ajmal, Sana; de Beaufort, Carine; Ramaiya, Kaushik; Zafra-Tanaka, Jessica Hanae; Atkinson, Mark (Elsevier, 2023)

  Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General and Nobel Prize winner, was noted for his many words of wisdom, including: “One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a ...
• Experiencias de usarios y familiares sobre la atención recibida en centros de salud metal comunitaria de Lima y Callao durante la pandemia de la COVID-19 

  Cusihuaman Lope, Noelia Margarita; Vilela Estrada, Ana Lucía; Cavero Huapaya, Victoria María; Villarreal-Zegarra, David; Diez-Canseco Montero, Francisco (Instituto Nacional de Salud, Perú, 2023)

  OBJECTIVE.: To understand the experiences of new and continuing users of Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) of Lima and Callao, and their relatives, regarding the mental health care they received during the COVID-19 ...
• Discapacidad funcional en pacientes con fibromialgia en un hospital en Lima, Perú 

  Reátegui Arrue, Willman Arian; Ríos Lopez, Samuel Francisco; Cachay Cruzado, Jorge Andres; Huamanchumo Guzman, Roberto Miguel; Loza Munarriz, Cesar Antonio; Olivera García, Anapaula; Nestares Luna, Kim Leslie; Arévalo Flores, Jorge Martín (Sociedad de Neurologia Psiquiatria y Neurocirugia, 2023)

  Background: Fibromyalgia is a rheumatological disorder characterized by generalized pain of imprecise localization that mainly affects women. It is associated with fatigue, anxiety, depression, and functional capacity is ...
• El tamaño del empaque de la galletas ultraprocesadas evita que lleven octógonos a pesar de tener alto contenido de azúcar y grasas saturadas 

  Meza Hernandez, Mayra Milagros; Yabiku Soto, Kiomi Denisse; Saavedra Garcia, Lorena Maria; Diez-Canseco Montero, Francisco (Instituto Nacional de Salud, Perú, 2023)

  The regulation of the “Law for the Promotion of Healthy Eating for Children and Adolescents” (Law No. 30021) indicates that processed and ultra-processed foods and beverages that exceed the parameters for sugar content, ...
• Desarrollo y validación de un método de suspensión basado en células vero par a la detección del virus Zika 

  Popuche, Dina; Huaman, Alfredo; Loyola Sosa, Steev Orlando; Silva, María; Jenkins, Sarah A.; Guevara, Carolina (Instituto Nacional de Salud, Perú, 2023)

  OBJECTIVE.: To develop and validate a cell suspension method using Vero 76 cells for culturing Zika virus (ZIKV) based on infection of detached freshly seeded cells. MATERIAL AND METHODS.: Three different multiplicities ...
• Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of high blood pressure in a cohort in Northern Andean Peru. 

  Sanchez-Samaniego, Giuliana; Hartinger Peña, Stella Maria; Mäusezahl, Daniel; Hattendorf, Jan; Fink, Günther; Probst-Hensch, Nicole (Taylor and Francis, 2023)

  BACKGROUND: Gaps exist along the high blood pressure (HBP) diagnosis-treatment-control pathway in high, low and middle-income countries. OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of HBP and to describe the levels of awareness, ...
• Situational Descriptive Analysis of COVID-19 in Pregnant Women and Perinatal Outcomes at the Lircay Hospital, Huancavelica-Peru, from May 2020 to April 2021 

  Cardenas-Pineda, L.; Solano-Tacza, J.; Capani-Jurado, G.; Saenz, L.J.A.; Ordoñez-Ccora, G.; Cieza Terrones, Michael Javier; Mantari, A.A. (Seventh Sense Research Group, 2023)

  This situational descriptive study of COVID-19 in pregnant women aims to identify the perinatal outcomes of pregnant women who suffered from COVID-19 treated at the Lircay hospital from May 2020 to April 2021. Methodology: ...
• Systematic Review on Methods for Detection and Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy from the Year 2013 to 2023 

  Ramos-Cosi, S.; Coquis-Flames, J.; Cieza Terrones, Michael Javier; Llulluy-Nuñez, D.; Alva- Mantari, A. (Seventh Sense Research Group, 2023)

  Diabetes is an illness that causes a multiple number of complications, Diabetic Retinopathy being one of them. The high level of glucose in the bloodstream eventually causes damage to the blood vessels and narrowing, ...
• Strengthening evidence to inform health systems: opportunities for the WHO and partners to accelerate progress on non-communicable diseases. 

  Hyder, Adnan A.; Rylance, Sarah; Al Saegh, Abeer; Feigin, Valery L.; Kataria, Ishu; Laatikainen, Tiina; Lee, Liming; Mahendradhata, Yodi; Marten, Robert; Mikkelsen, Bente; Miranda, J. Jaime; Nugent, Rachel; Owolabi, Mayowa; Sullivan, Richard; Virani, Salim S.; Reddy, K. Srinath (BMJ Publishing Group, 2023)

  Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have a remarkably high burden globally, accounting for 74% of all deaths. Every year 17 million people die from an NCD before the age of 70, and 86% of these premature deaths occur in ...
• Political and socioeconomic factors that shaped health taxes implementation in Peru 

  Zuleta, Mario; Pérez León Quinoso, Silvana Patricia; Mialon, Melissa; Delgado-Zegarra, Jaime (BMJ Publishing Group, 2023)

  Background In 2016 and 2018, the Peruvian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MoEF) significantly reformulated taxes on tobacco products, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). During these processes, different actors ...
• The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms 

  Romanello, M.; Napoli, C.D.; Green, C.; Kennard, H.; Lampard, P.; Scamman, D.; Walawender, M.; Ali, Z.; Ameli, N.; Ayeb-Karlsson, S.; Beggs, P.J.; Belesova, K.; Berrang Ford, L.; Bowen, K.; Cai, W.; Callaghan, M.; Campbell-Lendrum, D.; Chambers, J.; Cross, T.J.; van Daalen, K.R.; Dalin, C.; Dasandi, N.; Dasgupta, S.; Davies, M.; Dominguez-Salas, P.; Dubrow, R.; Ebi, K.L.; Eckelman, M.; Ekins, P.; Freyberg, C.; Gasparyan, O.; Gordon-Strachan, G.; Graham, H.; Gunther, S.H.; Hamilton, I.; Hang, Y.; Hänninen, R.; Hartinger Peña, Stella Maria; He, K.; Heidecke, J.; Hess, J.J.; Hsu, S.-C.; Jamart, L.; Jankin, S.; Jay, O.; Kelman, I.; Kiesewetter, G.; Kinney, P.; Kniveton, D.; Kouznetsov, R.; Larosa, F.; Lee, J.K.W.; Lemke, B.; Liu, Y.; Liu, Z.; Lott, M.; Lotto Batista, M.; Lowe, R.; Odhiambo Sewe, M.; Martinez-Urtaza, J.; Maslin, M.; McAllister, L.; McMichael, C.; Mi, Z.; Milner, J.; Minor, K.; Minx, J.C.; Mohajeri, N.; Momen, N.C.; Moradi-Lakeh, M.; Morrissey, K.; Munzert, S.; Murray, K.A.; Neville, T.; Nilsson, M.; Obradovich, N.; O'Hare, M.B.; Oliveira, C.; Oreszczyn, T.; Otto, M.; Owfi, F.; Pearman, O.; Pega, F.; Pershing, A.; Rabbaniha, M.; Rickman, J.; Robinson, E.J.Z.; Rocklöv, J.; Salas, R.N.; Semenza, J.C.; Sherman, J.D.; Shumake-Guillemot, J.; Silbert, G.; Sofiev, M.; Springmann, M.; Stowell, J.D.; Tabatabaei, M.; Taylor, J.; Thompson, R.; Tonne, C.; Treskova, M.; Trinanes, J.A.; Wagner, F.; Warnecke, L.; Whitcombe, H.; Winning, M.; Wyns, A.; Yglesias-González, Marisol; Zhang, S.; Zhang, Y.; Zhu, Q.; Gong, P.; Montgomery, H.; Costello, A. (Elsevier, 2023)

  The Lancet Countdown is an international research collaboration that independently monitors the evolving impacts of climate change on health, and the emerging health opportunities of climate action. In its eighth iteration, ...
• Sensitivity and specificity of the ICDAS II system and bitewing radiographs for detecting occlusal caries using the Spectra™ caries detection system as the reference test in children 

  Caceda, Jorge H.; Jiang, Shuying; Calderón Ubaqui, Victor; Villavicencio Caparo, Ebigen (BioMed Central, 2023)

  Background: Most studies assessing the sensitivity and specificity of caries detection methods have been performed in vitro using the histological method as the gold standard showing inconsistent values. The aim of this ...
• The burden of antimicrobial resistance in the Americas in 2019: a cross-country systematic analysis 

  Aguilar, GR; Swetschinski, LR; Weaver, ND; Ikuta, KS; Mestrovic, T; Gray, AP; Chung, E; Wool, EE; Han, C; Hayoon, AG; Araki, DT; Abdollahi, A; Abu-Zaid, A; Adnan, M; Agarwal, R; Dehkordi, JA; Aravkin, AY; Areda, D; Azzam, AY; Berezin, EN; Bhagavathula, AS; Bhutta, ZA; Bhuyan, SS; Browne, AJ; Castañeda-Orjuela, CA; Chandrasekar, EK; Ching, PR; Dai, XC; Darmstadt, GL; De la Hoz, FP; Diao, N; Diaz, D; dos Santos, WM; Eyre, D; García Apac, Coralith Marlinda; Haines-Woodhouse, G; Hassen, MB; Henry, NJ; Hopkins, S; Hossain, MM; Iregbu, KC; Iwu, CCD; Jacobs, JA; Janko, MM; Jones, R; Karaye, IM; Khalil, IA; Khan, IA; Khan, T; Khubchandani, J; Khusuwan, S; Kisa, A; Koyaweda, GW; Krapp Lopez, Fiorella del Carmen; Kumaran, EAP; Kyu, HH; Lim, SS; Liu, XF; Luby, S; Maharaj, SB; Maronga, C; Martorell, M; May, J; McManigal, B; Mokdad, AH; Moore, CE; Mostafavi, E; Murillo-Zamora, E; Mussi-Pinhata, MM; Nanavati, R; Nassereldine, H; Natto, ZS; Qamar, FN; Nunez-Samudio, V; Ochoa Woodell, Theresa Jean; Ojo-Akosile, TR; Olagunju, AT; Olivas-Martinez, A; Ortiz-Brizuela, E; Ounchanum, P; Paredes Sosa, José Luis; Patthipati, VS; Pawar, S; Pereira, M; Pollard, A; Ponce-De-Leon, A; Prates, EJS; Qattea, I; Reyes, LF; Roilides, E; Rosenthal, VD; Rudd, KE; Sangchan, W; Seekaew, S; Seylani, A; Shababi, N; Sham, S; Sifuentes-Osornio, J; Singh, H; Stergachis, A; Tasak, N; Tat, NY; Thaiprakong, A; Valdez, PR; Yada, DY; Yunusa, I; Zastrozhin, MS; Hay, SI; Dolecek, C; Sartorius, B; Murray, CJL; Naghavi, M; Antimicrobial Resistance Colla (Elsevier, 2023)

  Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an urgent global health challenge and a critical threat to modern health care. Quantifying its burden in the WHO Region of the Americas has been elusive-despite the region's ...
• Sodium content in commonly consumed away-from-home food in three areas of Metropolitan Lima, Peru. 

  Meza Hernandez, Mayra Milagros; Duran Galdo, Rafael Federico; Torres Schiaffino, Daniella; Saavedra Garcia, Lorena Maria (Instituto Nacional de Salud, Perú, 2023)

  The aim of this study was to characterize the sodium content in commonly consumed away-from-home food in three areas of Metropolitan Lima. We conducted a cross-sectional study, in which twenty frequently consumed foods ...
• Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 19A in hospitalized children with invasive pneumococcal disease after the introduction of conjugated vaccines in Lima, Peru. 

  Ochoa Woodell, Theresa Jean; Del Águila, Olguita; Reyes, Isabel; Chaparro Dammert, Luis Eduardo; Castillo Díaz, María Esther; Campos, Francisco; Saenz, Andrés; Hernandez, Roger; Luna Muschi, Alessandra Joanna; Castillo Tokumori, Franco; Montero Quiñe, Andrea Estefania; Gonzales Jaimes, Brayan Enrique; Mercado Zarate, Erik Hernan (Elsevier, 2023)

  BACKGROUND: The Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) has decreased cases of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) worldwide. However, the impact of PCVs introduction may be affected by the serotype distribution in a specific ...
• Specimen sharing for epidemic preparedness: Building a virtual biorepository system from local governance to global partnerships. 

  Giri, Judith; Pezzi, Laura; Cachay Figueroa, Rodrigo Antonio; Gèlvez Ramirez, Rosa Margarita; Tami, Adriana; Bethencourt, Sarah; Lozano, Anyela; Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo; Poje, Julia; Jaenisch, Thomas; Chu, May (PLoS, 2023)

  We present a framework for a federated, virtual biorepository system (VBS) with locally collected and managed specimens, as a 'global public good' model based on principles of equitable access and benefit sharing. The VBS ...
• Stellate Ganglion Block in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Promising Protective Measure against Vasospasm? 

  de Barros Oliveira, Leonardo; Batista, Sávio; Prestes, Milena Zadra; Bocanegra Becerra, Jhon Ernesto; Rabelo, Nicollas Nunes; Bertani, Raphael; Welling, Leonardo Christiaan; Figueiredo, Eberval Gadelha (Elsevier, 2023)

  BACKGROUND: Stellate ganglion block (SGB) may have protective effects in patients at risk of vasospasm following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) due to reduced sympathetic activity. However, the safety and clinical outcomes ...
• Lessons learned from over a decade of data audits in international observational HIV cohorts in Latin America and East Africa 

  Lotspeich, Sarah C.; Shepherd, Bryan E.; Kariuki, Marion Achieng; Wools-Kaloustian, Kara; McGowan, Catherine C.; Musick, Beverly; Semeere, Aggrey; Crabtree Ramírez, Brenda E.; Mkwashapi, Denna M.; Cesar, Carina; Ssemakadde, Matthew; Machado, Daisy Maria; Ngeresa, Antony; Ferreira, Flávia Faleiro; Lwali, Jerome; Marcelin, Adias; Cardoso, Sandra Wagner; Luque, Marco Tulio; Otero Vegas, Larissa; Cortés, Claudia P.; Duda, Stephany N. (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

  Introduction: Routine patient care data are increasingly used for biomedical research, but such secondary use data have known limitations, including their quality. When leveraging routine care data for observational research, ...

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