The Properties of Red Blood Cells from Patients Heterozygous for HbS and HbC (HbSC Genotype) by A. Hannemann, E. Weiss, D. C. Rees, S. Dalibalta, J. C. Ellory, J. S. Gibson

“…Affected individuals account for well over 250,000 births yearly, mostly in the Tropics, the USA, and the Caribbean, also in Northern Europe as well. Incidence in the UK amounts to around 12–15,000 individuals and is increasing, with approximately 300 SCD babies born each year as well as with arrival of new immigrants. …”
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The global health and economic burden of chikungunya from 2011 to 2020: a model-driven analysis on the impact of an emerging vector-borne disease by Adrianne Marije de Roo, Gerard Timmy Vondeling, Martijn Boer, Kristy Murray, Maarten Jacobus Postma

“…Most of this burden was found in the Latin American and Caribbean region. The total economic burden caused by chikungunya over these 10 years was estimated at $2.8 billion in direct costs and $47.1 billion in indirect costs worldwide. …”
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Transnational organized crime in Latin America: Current trends and prospects for military crime-fighting operations by A. N. Pyatakov

“…This problem is particularly acute in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), which are marked by exceedingly high rates of TOC activity and influence of cross-border criminal groups. …”
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The road to a sustainable energy system in the Guadeloupe archipelago: Challenges and opportunities by Mostafa Barani, Konstantin Löffler, Luka Garibashvili, Pedro Crespo del Granado

“…The Guadeloupe archipelago, situated in the eastern Caribbean Sea with a population of approximately 400,000 inhabitants, faces distinctive challenges in realizing a sustainable and resilient energy transition owing to its nature being a distributed island system. …”
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Characterization of Mortality from Diabetes Mellitus in Cienfuegos Province during the First Nine Months of 2020 by Isis Arelis Espinosa Salas, Sara Hernández Malpica, Lourdes Elena Duany Badell, Bárbara Zabala Enrique, Yusimí Cabada Martínez, Leticia Castro Morejón

“…<strong>Foundation:</strong> according to the World Health Organization, diabetes causes 300,000 deaths a year in Latin America and the Caribbean and in the Cienfuegos province since 2020 it ranks as the seventh cause of death. …”
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Green extraction cascade of UV-absorbing compounds, alginate, and fucoidan from Sargassum using ethanol and natural deep eutectic solvents by Santiago Guerrero-Higareda, Danay Carrillo-Nieves

“…The objective of this study was to evaluate Caribbean Mexican seaweed as a raw material for the production of fucoidans, alginates, and bioactive extracts with antioxidant activity, total flavonoid content, total phenolic content, and UV absorbance. …”
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Current status of African swine fever by Mary Louise Penrith

“…In the second half of the 20th century it had caused outbreaks in the majority of African countries where pigs are produced, as well as in a number of European countries, two of the Caribbean islands, and Brazil. By the turn of the century it had been eradicated from all non-African countries except the Italian island of Sardinia. …”
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Numerical modelling of the impact of coral reef degradation and sea level rise on coastal protection at The Buccoo Reef, Tobago: implications for reef restoration and management st... by Avinash Boodoo, Deborah Villarroel-Lamb

“…The influence of reef roughness on frictional dissipation under representative conditions, and the extent to which coral reef degradation and Sea Level Rise (SLR) reduces this coastal protection service remains underexplored, especially at coastal sites in Caribbean Small Island Developing States. A numerical modelling approach using a coupled depth-averaged (2DH) hydrodynamic and spectral wave model in Delft3D was used to evaluate the coastal protection effectiveness of a fringing reef under varying scenarios of coral reef degradation and SLR at The Buccoo Reef, Tobago. …”
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Experience in the management of patients with HTLV-1 positive adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma in a Latin American center by Danielle Floyd-Aristizábal, Cristian Alonso Barreiro García, Oriana Arias-Valderrama, Catalina Proaño Millán, Nhora María Silva Perez, Joaquín Donaldo Rosales Martinez, Elizabeth Arrieta López

“…Background: Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) is a neoplasm with a high prevalence in certain regions such as southwestern Japan, the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, South America, and Australia. …”
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Therapeutic strategies for tongue musculature: a systematic literature review by Andressa Colares da Costa Otavio, Arthur Cherem Netto Fernandes, Maria Eduarda Pollachinni Andrade, Brenda Barros Dias, Erissandra Gomes, Marco Aurélio Vaz

“…Research strategies Regional Portal of the Virtual Health Library for Latin America and the Caribbean, Embase, PubMed/MEDLINE, Scientific Electronic Library Online, SciVerse Scopus and Cochrane databases were consulted, with the descriptors "exercise therapy” OR “physiology” OR “musculoskeletal physiological phenomena” OR “digestive system and oral physiological phenomena” AND “speech therapy” OR “myofunctional therapy” OR “speech language pathology” AND “tongue”. …”
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Brazilian criminal organizations as subjects of non-classical wars in the form of criminal rebellion by K. S. Strigunov

“…In this regard, the case of Latin American and Caribbean countries and, in particular, Brazil is of special interest. …”
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Plasma mcfDNA Sequencing May Improve Usual Care Diagnostics to Detect HHV-8 Among Outpatient People with Advanced HIV by Sarah Park, Brian Epling, Morgan Richey, Daniel Lupu, Mona Mughar, Irini Sereti

“…Results: HHV-8 was detected in 21 (18%) outpatients with advanced HIV by any method, with males comprising the majority (86%) and one-third originally from non-US countries (including Africa, Central America, and the Caribbean). Adding mcfDNA sequencing to UC proportionally increased HHV-8 detection by 38%, while also identifying in 18 (86%) people other microbes of potential interest, including common herpesviruses, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Pneumocystis jirovecii. …”
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NT-proBNP, Cardiometabolic Risk Factors, and Nutritional Status in Hemodialysis Patients by Jacques Ducros, Laurent Larifla, Henri Merault, Lydia Foucan

“…A cross-sectional study was performed in Afro-Caribbean dialysis patients. One component in each of the 4 categories for the wasting syndrome was retained: serum albumin ≤ 38 g/L, BMI ≤ 23 Kg/m2, serum creatinine ≤ 818 µmol/L, and normalized protein catabolic rate (nPCR) ≤ 0.8 g/kg/day. …”
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Diagnostic accuracy of screening tests for eating disorders in adolescents and adults in primary health care: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis by Thiala Santos Duarte de Oliveira, Mônica Leila Portela de Santana, Valterlinda Alves de Oliveira Queiroz, Karine Brito Beck da Silva, Poliana Cardoso Martins, Emile Miranda Pereira, Priscila Ribas de Farias Costa

“…The databases used will be Medline, Embase, the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Web of Science, PsycINFO, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database and Google Scholar without restrictions on the year of publication and language. …”
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Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia: Demographic and Epidemiological Characterization in Puerto Rican Hispanics (2012-2014) by Jorge J. Cruz-Cruz, María González-Pons, Adrián Cora-Morges, Marievelisse Soto-Salgado, Giancarlo Colón, Kimberly Alicea, Kathia Rosado, Douglas R. Morgan, Marcia Cruz-Correa

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Drivers of success in global health outcomes: A content analysis of Exemplar studies. by Nadia Akseer, David E Phillips, Exemplars in Global Health Partner Network

“…The EGH studies (N = 31) spanned six topics including under-five child mortality (n = 6), childhood stunting (n = 5), community health workers (CHW) (n = 4), vaccine delivery (n = 3), COVID-19 response (n = 6), and newborn and maternal mortality reduction (n = 7) across 19 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South and Central Asia, and the Caribbean regions. Top drivers of success were defined as those critical or catalytic in achieving the intended outcome. …”
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Next Generation Sequencing Panel using Circulating Tumor DNA in Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Mariana M. Sebastião, Rodrigo S. Ho, João Paulo V. de Carvalho, Micha Nussbaum

“…**Methods:** MEDLINE/PubMed, Cochrane Library, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACS), and Centre for Reviews and Dissemination databases and articles obtained from other sources were searched for relevant studies that evaluate the accuracy (sensitivity and specificity) of NGS using ctDNA in patients with aNSCLC. …”
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Taking stock of vaccine hesitancy among migrants: a scoping review protocol by Charles S Wiysonge, Sten H Vermund, Akhenaten Siankam Tankwanchi, Anelisa Jaca, Heidi J Larson

“…Studies published in English or French between January 1999 and December 2019 will be drawn from most or all of the following multidisciplinary databases: Africa-Wide Information, Allied and Complementary Medicine, Cochrane Library, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Embase, Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Literature in the Health Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean, Medline, Proquest Theses/Dissertations, PsycInfo and Web of Science. …”
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Use of machine learning in occupational risk communication for healthcare workers: protocol for scoping review by Gabriela Laudares Albuquerque de Oliveira, Clarice Alves Bonow, Itiberê de Oliveira Castellano Rodrigues, Amanda Xavier Geraldo

“…This protocol arises from the need to explore the best practices for applying ML in the communication and management of occupational risks for healthcare workers.Methods and analysis This scoping review protocol details a search to be conducted in the academic databases, Public Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, through the Virtual Health Library: Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System, Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences, West Pacific Region Index Medicus, Nursing Database and Scientific Electronic Library Online, Scopus, Web of Science and IEEE Xplore Digital Library and Excerpta Medica Database. …”
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Population genetic structure of Phaedranassa cinerea Ravenna (Amaryllidaceae) and conservation implications by María Belén Buenaño, Carmen Ulloa Ulloa, Javier Francisco-Ortega, Alan W. Meerow, Nora H. Oleas

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