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Systematic Review Estimating the Burden of Dementia in the Latin America and Caribbean Region: A Bayesian Approach. [PDF]

Front Neurol, 2021
Xiang Y, Vilmenay K, Poon AN, Ayanian S, Aitken CF, Chan KY.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Extreme Weather Events and Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Growth

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The productivity of the agricultural sector is crucial for food security in a changing climate. This study estimates the impacts of extreme weather events on agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth, contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the effects of climate change on agriculture.
Wei Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Dengue incidence and its relationship with El Niño oceanic index, as a sensitive variable to anticipate outbreaks in the Colombian Caribbean region [PDF]

Biomedica
Salazar-Ceballos A, Álvarez-Miño L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Revisiting the Association of Pesticide Exposure and Parkinson's Disease: Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The association between pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease (PD) is substantial, but heterogeneity in methodology and lack of categorization according to the type of exposure and pesticide classes in previous meta‐analyses impair the interpretation of data. This study aims to update evidence of the association between pesticide exposure
Pedro Henrique Passos da Silva, Jadson Silva Abreu, Rafael Sidônio Gibson Gomes, Hemengella Karyne Alves Oliveira, Artur F. S. Schuh, Ignacio F. Mata, Bruno Lopes Santos‐Lobato   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sargassum Lung Syndrome: Air Flow Obstruction and Bronchial Inflammation Are Observed After Prolonged Exposure to Sargassum Gas Emissions in the Eastern Caribbean

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sargassum inundation of Caribbean and American shorelines is a growing environmental hazard. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and ammonia (NH3) produced by decomposing Sargassum could be involved in airway obstruction and bronchial inflammation. The study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of exposure to H2S and NH3 gases emitted during Sargassum ...
Rishika Banydeen, Jonathan Florentin, Maxime Boutourlinsky, Remi Nguyen, Fatima Radouani, Moustapha Agossou, Gary Lutin, Thierry Lebrun, Remi Neviere, Dabor Resiere   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Current Status of Stroke Thrombolysis in the Mission Thrombectomy 2020+ Caribbean Region. [PDF]

Stroke Vasc Interv Neurol
Gordon Perue G, Segura E, Crandon D, Gayle F, Charles J, Joseph N, Saint Croix G, Then R, Inoa V, MT2020+ Caribbean Investigators.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Identity and dislocation in Caribbean women's literature: a study of the writings of Velma Pollard

Jamaican-born Velma Pollard has been publishing poetry and short stories for nearly thirty years. Her first poems appeared in the 1970s, her first volume of short stories in 1989, and her first novel in 1994.
Schulenburg, Darlene
core  

A retrospective on the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season

Weather, EarlyView.
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was intermittent, with extended quiet periods separated by three clusters of activity. The broad‐scale conditions were often unfavourable for cyclogenesis and common drivers of activity such as La Niña were weak, but well above‐average sea temperatures still supported intense storms.
Charles W. Powell
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers to access to antihypertensive medicines: insights from the HEARTS initiative in latin American and Caribbean region. [PDF]

J Pharm Policy Pract
Souza KM, Giron N, Vallini J, Hallar K, Ordunez P, Rosende A, Loya BR, Sánchez DD, Lim C.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reassessing sixteenth and seventeenth century written accounts of hurricanes in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea

Weather, EarlyView.
Abstract While the North Atlantic’s five‐century hurricane history is among the most complete globally, the earliest centuries are poorly documented in the written record. This study reassesses a subset of sixteenth to seventeenth‐century tropical cyclones (TCs) through a systematic review of archival evidence, mainly from Spain’s colonial archive, the
William Gomez Pretel, Michael Chenoweth
wiley   +1 more source