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Caribbean Public Health Agency, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas del Trópico (IIBT), Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Doctorado en Medicina Tropical, Universidad de Córdoba, Carrera 6 No 76-103., Monteria, Córdoba, Colombia. mattarsalim@hotmail.com.
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Biomedical Engineering, The University of Trinidad & Tobago, Port of Spain, TTO.
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School of Dentistry, The University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Dental Innovation and Translation Hub, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, Kings College London, London, UK.
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UNICA - Caries Research Unit, Research Vice-rectory, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia.
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Subdepartamento Genética Molecular, Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
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National Cancer Institute National Cancer Institute RockvilleMaryland United States of America National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America.
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Caribbean Public Health Agency Caribbean Public Health Agency Port-of-Spain Trinidad and Tobago Caribbean Public Health Agency, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Universidad de Cartagena, Facultad de Medicina, Grupo de Investigación UNIMOL, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
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Universidad de Cartagena, Facultad de Medicina, Grupo de Investigación UNIMOL, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
Universidad de Cartagena, Facultad de Medicina, Programa de Doctorado en Medicina Tropical, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
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Department of Para-Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Department of Anatomical Pathology, Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, North Central Regional Health Authority, Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Department of Surgery, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
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The Nottingham Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare: a Joanna Briggs Institute Centre of Excellence.
Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK.
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The Nottingham Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare: a Joanna Briggs Institute Centre of Excellence.
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Instituto de Investigaciones Bilógicas del Trópico, Universidad de Córdoba, Montería, Colombia.
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Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia.
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Latin America and the Caribbean has made significant progress toward universal health coverage (UHC), but health spending efficiency, equity, and sustainability remain major challenges-and progress is...
Despite Colombia's robust well-child visits program, Colombian children and mothers still suffer from anemia, especially in populations of lower socioeconomic status. In this study, we aimed to quanti...
There were 100 mother-child pairs enrolled in this secondary data-analysis study from a health facility in the municipality of Apartadó, Urabá, Colombia, during well-child visits. Self-reported data i...
The anemia prevalence in children (74%) and mothers (47%) was higher than the Colombian national prevalence. Reported child comorbidities in the preceding two weeks were not significantly associated w...
The finding of high anemia prevalence in this study advances our understanding of child and maternal anemia in populations of low socioeconomic status where health care is regularly accessed through w...
Stroke is the leading cause of death and adult-onset disability in the Caribbean region. Despite the tremendous advances in acute stroke care in the past 25 years, treatment in the Caribbean lags stro...
To determine the association between fetal macrosomia (FM) and postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) women....
Studies evaluating the association between FM and PPH (≥ 500 ml) and severe PPH (≥ 1,000 ml) until November 4, 2021, indexed in CINHAL, Scopus, Embase, Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, LILACS, and SciELO....
Inclusion criteria were cohort and case-control studies that provided the number of PPH and FM cases. Exclusion criteria were studies lacking information about the number of cases, with a population o...
Data extraction was performed independently by two authors, and discrepancies were resolved with a third author. Data regarding FM and PPH cases were retrieved....
Of the 1,044 articles evaluated, 5 studies were included, from 6 different countries: Argentina and Uruguay (multi-country), West Indies, Antigua and Barbuda, French Guyana, and Suriname. The pooled o...
There was a positive association between FM and PPH in the LAC, increasing the risk of the presence of this event 2-fold. The high heterogeneity of the studies that measured severe PPH does not allow ...
Mangrove forests, which are essential for the maintenance of terrestrial and marine biodiversity on tropical coasts and constitute the main blue‑carbon ecosystems for the mitigation of global warming,...
Background High-income country studies show unfavorable trends in stroke incidence (SI) in younger populations. We aimed to estimate temporal change in SI disaggregated by age and sex in Latin America...
Viruses pose major global challenges to crop production as infections reduce the yield and quality of harvested products, hinder germplasm exchange, increase financial inputs, and threaten food securi...
Central America and the Caribbean is a highly heterogeneous region comprising more than 30 countries and territories with more than 200 million inhabitants. Although recent advances in the region have...
The eating disorders field acknowledges the need to include diverse populations in research. Although global diversity has increased in epidemiologic research, there is still a significant lack of res...
The Caribbean is a hotspot of biological and cultural diversity, manifested in traditional plant knowledge of Afrodescendant peoples and other ethnicities. To strengthen the visibility of this knowled...