Factors Associated with Successful Mentoring of Parents Addressing Childhood Obesity: A Mixed Methods Approach by Gabriela Abigail Villanueva, Byron Alexander Foster

“…The data suggest that a parent mentor model of intervention for child obesity is an acceptable mode of approaching behavior change in the Hispanic population around childhood obesity with potential for scalability if proven effective.…”
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Intravitreal Ampicillin Sodium for Antibiotic-Resistant Endophthalmitis: Streptococcus uberis First Human Intraocular Infection Report by Raul Velez-Montoya, Dulce Rascón-Vargas, William F. Mieler, Jans Fromow-Guerra, Virgilio Morales-Cantón

“…Case Report. A 52-year-old, Hispanic diabetic patient who suddenly developed severe pain and severe loss of vision, following vitrectomy. …”
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Association between Rash and a Positive Drug Response Associated with Vinorelbine in a Patient with Primary Peritoneal Carcinoma by Mustafa M. Mohammad, Kostas N. Syrigos, M. Wasif Saif

“…In this case report, a 71-year-old Hispanic female with primary peritoneal carcinoma received single agent VRL as fourth-line regimen, which she tolerated very well except for a skin rash related to VRL. …”
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A Rare Case of Light Chain Amyloidosis of the Gastrointestinal Tract by Kathrin Dvir, Gliceida M. Galarza-Fortuna, Anna Willet, Christopher Febres-Aldana, Nathaly Cortez, Samuel Rapaka, Andre Coombs, Robert Goldberg, Michael Schwartz, Kfir Ben-David

“…A 65-year-old Hispanic female presented with a one-year history of anorexia, nausea, early satiety, epigastric discomfort, and a 20 kg weight loss. …”
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Pyrethroid as a Substance of Abuse by Pravesh Sharma, Stephen Manning, Regina Baronia, Saira Mushtaq

“…This is a case of a 22-year-old Hispanic male with a history of bipolar disorder and methamphetamine dependence who was admitted after presenting with suicidal ideations by slashing his throat with a machete. …”
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Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: A New Instrument to Measure Anxiety Symptoms Associated with COVID-19 by Juan Aníbal González-Rivera, Adam Rosario-Rodríguez, Andrés Cruz-Santos

“…Background: The purpose of this study was to adapt and validate the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in a sample of Hispanic residents in Puerto Rico. This instrument is a brief mental health screening to identify anxiety symptoms associated with COVID-19. …”
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De Alessandri a Ibáñez: las relaciones económicas entre Chile y España en los años veinte (1920-1931) by Juan Luis Carrellán Ruiz

“…The twenties were decisive in the configuration of the Hispanic-Chilean relationships. In the economic part, from the First World War the commercial scale was favourable to Chile and especially to the sales of his nitrate on the Spanish market, crucial moment for the discovery of much cheaper synthetic saltpeters. …”
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Relationship between influenza-related experience and current vaccination outcome by Yunwei Gai

“…Conclusion Vaccination promotion efforts could focus on those who have not been vaccinated in the past and on specific sub-populations, such as people who are Hispanic, people with lower education levels, the population aged 65 and above, and families with low-income levels. …”
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A Case Report of a Patient with Turner Syndrome, Multiple Comorbidities, and Pustular Psoriasis: Correlation or Coincidence? by Andjela Egger, Andrea Maderal, Hadar Lev-Tov, Olivera Stojadinovic

“…We present a case of a 53-year-old Hispanic woman with a mosaic TS and multiple comorbidities who presented with pustular psoriasis. …”
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A Challenge for Diagnosing Acute Liver Injury with Concomitant/Sequential Exposure to Multiple Drugs: Can Causality Assessment Scales Be Utilized to Identify the Offending Drug? by Roxanne Lim, Hassan Choudry, Kim Conner, Wikrom Karnsakul

“…We report a case of acute liver injury in a 12-year-old Hispanic boy, who received a series of five antibiotics (amoxicillin, ceftriaxone, vancomycin, ampicillin/sulbactam, and clindamycin) for cervical lymphadenitis/retropharyngeal cellulitis. …”
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A Rare Case of Spontaneous Pneumocephalus Associated with Nontraumatic Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak by Murad Baba, Omer Tarar, Amer Syed

“…Case Description. 51-year-old Hispanic female with past medical history of hypertension and idiopathic intracranial hypertension (Pseudotumor Cerebri) presented to the emergency room complaining of headache and clear discharge from the right nostril. …”
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Three Cases of West Nile Encephalitis over an Eight-Day Period at a Downtown Los Angeles Community Hospital by Adam Puchalski, Antonio K. Liu, Byron Williams

“…All the patients were Hispanic. Physicians and other health care providers should consider West Nile infection in the differential diagnosis of causes of aseptic meningitis and encephalitis, obtain appropriate laboratory studies, and promptly report cases to public health authorities. …”
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Change in the Prevalence of Testing for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in the United States: 1999–2012 by Nicholas T. Vozoris, Jane Batt

“…Compared to 1999-2000, significantly fewer individuals self-reported being tested for LTBI in 2011-2012 among Hispanic Americans (68.0% versus 60.7%, p<0.0001) and among those with comorbidities (74.7% versus 72.0%, p=0.02). …”
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La dialéctica entre la imagen criolla-española del arquitecto y la fuerza de trabajo de naturales y mestizos en la Nueva España durante las reformas borbónicas by Luis Javier Cuesta Hernandez

“… La Hispanic Society of America guarda entre sus fondos un magnífico plano de la Ciudad de México (Plan of Mexico City, made in 1776 by D. …”
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Racism, homophobia, and the sexual health of young Black men who have sex with men in the United States: A systematic review. by Sarah E Janek, Lisvel A Matos, Sandy Hatoum, Marta I Mulawa, Leila Ledbetter, Michael V Relf

“…Despite a high annual HIV incidence, extant literature has found BMSM to engage in fewer sexual risk behaviors than White and Hispanic/Latino men who have sex with men, resulting in a gap between risk behaviors and the inequity of HIV infection. …”
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Latino Alzheimer's Caregiving: Neither a Burden nor a "Carga" by Lyda Arevalo-flechas

“…Not having a Spanish equivalent for the expression “caregiver burden.” raises concern when this concept is translated to the wordcargaand used to describe Latino caregiving.Aim:To describe the perceptions of the caregiving experience of bilingual Latino/Hispanic family caregivers of relatives living with Alzheimer’s disease, and explore the language used in their narratives.Method:Data collection and analyses followed a modified Spradley ethnographic methodology. …”
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Renal Autotransplantation for Iatrogenic High-Grade Ureteric Stricture by Jose Soto Soto, Michael Phillips, Joseph Cernigliaro, William Haley

“…A 47-year-old Hispanic woman developed a chronically obstructed left kidney, due to a long-segment ureteric stricture deemed not amenable to reimplantation, following left ovarian cyst excision in 2004. …”
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Crescentic Glomerulonephritis and Membranous Nephropathy: A Rare Overlap by Mohamedanwar Ghandour, Heba Osman, Samer Alkassis, Alix Charles, Kristina Zalewski, Jarrett Weinberger, Yahya Malik-Osman, Zeenat Y. Bhat

“…Our patient is a 53-year-old Hispanic male with a medical history of tobacco use, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and hypertension who presented with hematuria and was found to have nephrotic range proteinuria and renal impairment. …”
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Measuring metalinguistic awareness among heritage speakers in the US-based L3 context by Elisa Fiorenza, Will Travers

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Efficacy of Rituximab in a Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patient Presenting with Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage by Gabriela Montes-Rivera, Grissel Ríos, Luis M. Vilá

“…Herein, we report a 25-year-old Hispanic man who presented with acute-onset SLE manifested by polyarthralgia, nephritis, seizures, pancytopenia, severe hypocomplementemia, and elevated anti-dsDNA antibodies. …”
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