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APOE and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias risk among 12,221 Hispanics/Latinos

Alzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 21, Issue 4, April 2025.
Abstract BACKGROUND Effect of apolipoprotein E (APOE) on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) risk is heterogeneous across populations, with scarce data on Hispanics/Latinos. METHODS APOE genotype was studied in 12,221 Hispanics/Latinos (per cohort and via metanalysis): Caribbean‐Hispanics, Mexicans, Mexican‐Americans, and Peruvians ...
Sandra Barral, Zikun Yang, Nicole Phillips, Robert C. Barber, Adam M. Brickman, Lawrence S. Honig, Basilio Cieza, Dolly Reyes‐Dumeyer, Richard Mayeux, Farid Rajabli, Michael L. Cuccaro, Jeffery M. Vance, Silvia Mejia Arango, Rafael Samper‐Ternent, Alejandra Michaels Obregon, Rosa Montesinos, Marcio Soto‐Añari, Juan Carlos Duran, Maria Cusicanqui, Ivonne Z. Jimenez Velazquez, Victoria Marca, Maryenela Illanes‐Manrique, Mario Cornejo‐Olivas, Margaret Pericak‐Vance, Rebeca Wong, Sid O'Bryant, Nilton Custodio, Giuseppe Tosto   +27 more
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Older Adults’ Descendants and Family Networks in the Context of Global Educational Expansion

Population and Development Review, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 213-256, March 2025.
Abstract Family networks are key to understanding the well‐being of older adults because kin provide instrumental and financial support, help manage health and disability, and encourage social integration. Two momentous societal changes have shaped the families of contemporary older adults: the first and second demographic transitions and global ...
Rachel Margolis, Mara Getz Sheftel, Haowei Wang, Raeven Faye Chandler, Lauren Newmyer, Ashton M. Verdery   +5 more
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In defence of the entity of Macaronesia as a biogeographical region

Biological Reviews, Volume 99, Issue 6, Page 2060-2081, December 2024.
ABSTRACT Since its coinage ca. 1850 AD by Philip Barker Webb, the biogeographical region of Macaronesia, consisting of the North Atlantic volcanic archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira with the tiny Selvagens, the Canaries and Cabo Verde, and for some authors different continental coastal strips, has been under dispute. Herein, after a brief introduction
José María Fernández‐Palacios, Rüdiger Otto, Jorge Capelo, Juli Caujapé‐Castells, Lea de Nascimento, Maria Cristina Duarte, Rui B. Elias, Carlos García‐Verdugo, Miguel Menezes de Sequeira, Frédéric Médail, Agustín Naranjo‐Cigala, Jairo Patiño, Jonathan Price, Maria M. Romeiras, Lázaro Sánchez‐Pinto, Robert J. Whittaker   +15 more
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Espaço e gênero na compreensão do processo saúde-doença da mulher brasileira Espacio y género en la comprensión del proceso salud enfermedad Space and gender understanding brazilian woman's health-illness process

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 1997
Trata-se de um ensaio onde é abordada a questão da determinação social do processo saúde-doença da mulher (através da sua inserção em classes sociais e da condição de gênero), articulada à noção de espaço social e historicamente construído, dada pela ...
Rosa Maria Godoy Serpa da Fonseca
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Self‐Reported Diabetes in Older Adults: A Comparison of Prevalence and Related Factors in the Mexican Health and Aging Study (2015, 2018, and 2021)

Journal of Diabetes Research, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Aim: To estimate the prevalence and factors associated with diabetes among older adults and compare the prevalence rate of a three‐round national survey of the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS). Methods: A cross‐sectional study was conducted with data obtained from MHAS 2015 (n = 8167), 2018 (n = 7854), and 2021 (n = 8060), which comprised a ...
Alvaro García Pérez, Teresa Villanueva Gutiérrez, Laura Bárbara Velázquez-Olmedo, Aderito Seixas   +3 more
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Regionalization of the Mortality Risk from Cardiomyopathy and Respiratory Diseases Based on the Maximum Entropy Model

Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
This research presents a time‐series study in one of the most polluted regions in Mexico, the southern part of the Mezquital Valley. Three mortality causes related to areas highly contaminated by industrial activities were considered to carry out this model, namely, ischemic cardiomyopathy, mesothelioma, and pneumoconiosis.
Raymundo Ordoñez-Sierra, Gabriela Domínguez-Cortinas, Iván Yassmany Hernández-Paniagua, José Luis Expósito-Castillo, Miguel A. Gómez-Albores, María Guadalupe Rodríguez-Reyes, Brisa Violeta Carrasco-Gallegos, Luis Ricardo Manzano-Solís, Omar Enzo Santangelo   +8 more
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Análisis de los condicionantes socioespaciales de la salud en el Estado de Yucatán

Boletín de Estudios Geográficos
Los condicionantes socioespaciales de la salud son las circunstancias que intervienen en las oportunidades de vivir, enfermar o morir del individuo, características como el género, etnia, pobreza, entre otras; influyen en el acceso a la salud.
Iliana Villerías Alarcón, Lucas Chías Becerril   +1 more
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Desarrollo de la geografía médica o de la salud en Cuba

Revista Cubana de Higiene y Epidemiología
A lo largo de la historia la geografía y la medicina han compartido sus espacios, pues dentro de sus objetivos de estudio se encuentra el hombre como pilar esencial en ambas disciplinas. Analizar el desarrollo de la geografía médica o de la salud en Cuba
Liliam Cuéllar Luna, Tania Gutiérrez Soto   +1 more
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Estudio sobre jerarquías y redes en la política de salud del adulto mayor en México

Población y Salud en Mesoamérica, 2017
Se analiza la situación actual del sistema de salud en México, en general, así como de manera específica, en relación al grupo poblacional de adultos mayores (AM) mediante los modelos de organización, de jerarquías y redes.
Juana Isabel Vera-López
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Geografía médica en la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires: Cobertura de salud y vulnerabilidad

Boletín de Estudios Geográficos
El artículo analiza la diferenciación espacial de la cobertura de salud de la población de la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires (RMBA) y su relación contextual con características sociales y habitacionales representadas sintéticamente por las ...
Gustavo Buzai
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