Screening strategy for Chagas disease in a non-endemic country (Switzerland): a prospective evaluation

C Da Costa-Demaurex, MT Cárdenas, H Aparicio… - Swiss medical …, 2019 - smw.ch
… In support of previous studies, we found that the majority of affected people originated from
Bolivia. The 17.9% prevalence among Bolivians (or 21.5% if we exclude blood donors) is …

Epigenetics in type 1 diabetes: TNFa gene promoter methylation status in Chilean patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus

V Arroyo-Jousse, DF Garcia-Diaz, E Codner… - British Journal of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
… To our knowledge, this is the first work that reports the methylation status of the TNFa gene
promoter and its relationship with homocysteine metabolism in Chilean T1D patients without …

… is associated with secondary school academic achievement and the intention to enroll in higher education: A cross-sectional study in adolescents from Santiago, Chile

P Correa-Burrows, Y Rodríguez, E Blanco, S Gahagan… - Nutrients, 2017 - mdpi.com
… We applied quartile cutoffs for the Chilean adolescent population (comprising students of
high-, middle- and low-SES) to classify the nutritional quality of in-home and at-school …

… to safe plasma proteins in resource‐constrained countries: Local production and pathways to fractionation—Report of an International Society of Blood Transfusion …

T Burnouf, J Epstein, JC Faber, M Smid - Vox Sanguinis, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… Quality and safety of collected blood and plasma must be assured so that plasma in excess
of transfusion needs can be processed into safe plasma proteins. Second, local production …

Presence of anti‐HBc is associated to high rates of HBV resolved infection and low threshold for Occult HBV Infection in HIV patients with negative HBsAg in Chile

JI Vargas, D Jensen, V Sarmiento… - Journal of Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… to our knowledge. El-Ghitany and Farghaly [2013] evaluated in non-HIV population the same
… The low sensibility found in our study (32.9%) may indicate that in HIV positive population

Development of a small panel of SNPs to infer ancestry in Chileans that distinguishes Aymara and Mapuche components

RA Verdugo, A Di Genova, L Herrera, M Moraga… - Biological research, 2020 - Springer
… Participants of the ChileGenomico Project were recruited from the general Chilean population
at regular or temporary blood donation centers in eight cities (Fig. 1). We also included 40 …

The Chilean exception: Racial homogeneity, mestizaje and eugenic nationalism

S Walsh - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Blood Bank in New York City where she donated blood. This is a very literal example of how
mixing blood … , there is a reserve of the blood of the Chilean woman, and one of her most …

… in Apolipoprotein B, Apolipoprotein E, and Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Are Associated With Serum Lipid Levels in Northern Chilean Subjects. A Pilot …

AS Gálvez, H Ramírez, P Placencia, C Rojas… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… All participants were university students born in the region of Antofagasta (Northern Chile),
having good health condition and no diagnosis of CVD, and were informed regarding the …

Toward an integrated approach to environmental and prosocial education

A Neaman, S Otto, E Vinokur - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
… Future studies should consider a larger sample of Chile’s overall population in order to
strengthen our findings. However, we believe that the present article is an initial study in an area…

Awareness, Attitudes, and Willingness: A Cross-Sectional Study of Organ Donation in Saudi Arabia

K Alhasan, F Aljamaan, A Ajlan, H Aleid, T Al Ghoufi… - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
… Previous blood donors and individuals who supported linking driving license applications
with organ donation decisions were also more likely to be aware of the Fatwa (OR 1.323, p-…