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Maternal blood mitochondrial DNA copy number and placental abruption risk: results from a preliminary study
(e-Century Publishing, 2013-06-25)
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Oxidative stress and impaired placental function – pathways implicated in the pathogenesis of placental abruption – have their origins extending to mitochondrial dysfunction. To the best of our knowledge, there are no ...
Anthocyanin-rich purple corn extract and its effects on the blood pressure of adults
(SAGE Publications, 2013-03-28)
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This small-scale pilot study studied the potential benefit of taking a concentrated dose of anthocyanin 300 mg once a day for 3 weeks (purple corn extract) on blood pressure among untreated Peruvian adults with mild-to-moderate ...
A paleogenomic reconstruction of the deep population history of the andes
(Elsevier, 2020-05-06)
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There are many unanswered questions about the population history of the Central and South Central Andes, particularly regarding the impact of large-scale societies, such as the Moche, Wari, Tiwanaku, and Inca. We assembled ...
Precision medicine for locally advanced breast cancer: frontiers and challenges in Latin America
(ECancer Medical Science, 2019-01-22)
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Advances in high-throughput technologies and their involvement in the ‘omics’ of cancer have made possible the identification of hundreds of biomarkers and the development of predictive and prognostic platforms that model ...
Vasodilators for women undergoing fertility treatment
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018-10-12)
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Background: The rate of successful pregnancies brought to term has barely increased since the first assisted reproductive technology (ART) technique became available. Vasodilators have been proposed to increase endometrial ...
Workplace violence by specialty among Peruvian medical residents
(Gerard Hutchinson, University of the West Indies at Saint Augustine, 2018-11-29)
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Objective
To determine the prevalence of workplace violence among Peruvian medical residents and to evaluate the association between medical specialty and workplace violence per type of aggressor.
Methods
This was a ...
A comparative study of digital lateral radiography and virtual cone-beam computed assisted cephalogram in cephalometric measurements
(Facultad de Odontología, Universidad de Concepción, Chile., 2018-11-30)
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Objectives: To assess discrepancies in cephalometric measurements from digital lateral radiography and virtual cone-beam computed assisted tomography cephalogram. Materials and methods: Forty digital lateral radiographs ...
Mogamulizumab versus investigator’s choice of chemotherapy regimen in relapsed/refractory adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma
(Ferrata Storti Foundation, 2019-05)
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Mogamulizumab, a humanized defucosylated anti-C-C chemokine receptor 4 monoclonal antibody, has been approved in Japan for the treatment of C-C chemokine receptor 4-positive adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL). This phase ...
Cholesterol-lowering treatment in chronic kidney disease: multistage pairwise and network meta-analyses
(Springer Nature, 2019)
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Pairwise and network meta-analyses on the relationship between the efficacy of the use of statins with or without ezetimibe and reductions in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLc) and C-reactive protein (CRP) in ...
First catheter ablations in the Ministry of Health system of Peru: report of the initial experience.
(Elsevier B.V., 2019)
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BACKGROUND:
In 2015, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) of Peru inaugurated the first national center for electrophysiology studies in a public tertiary referral hospital with the purpose to provide healthcare access to the ...