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Bibliographic reviews in Cuban medical journals.
Published 2008-04-01“…Only 20 (40%) gathered between 25 and 50 references and 24 had more than 50% of their references not updated. …”
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Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Brain Health Indicators in Cuban Preschoolers
Published 2025-01-01“…We collected data between 2015 and 2018 using the medical records of 627 Cuban preschool children to explore the link between brain health indicators and exposure to tobacco smoke at home. …”
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Local Culture: Curation as an Ethnographic Process in the Contemporary Cuban Art Scene
Published 2017-09-01“…The design of the exhibition and curation process has contributed elements to the current debate within visual anthropology: understanding of the image as a process of inter-relation, more than of description.…”
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Ocular traumatic behavior in patients discharged from the Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology.
Published 2009-07-01“…<strong>Background:</strong> Ocular traumas are regarded as an important cause of ophthalmologic morbidity and, at the same time, an important cause of the remaining injuries, most of the time handicapping those patients who suffer from them. <strong><br />Objective:</strong> to describe the behavior of the ocular traumas in patients who have been discharged from the Cuban Ophthalmology Institute “Ramón Pando Ferrer” in the period between January 2006 and December 2007. …”
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Linguistic and cultural adaptation of the generalized anxiety disorder scale for patients with epilepsy in the Cuban context
Published 2023-11-01“…<p><strong>Foundation:</strong> the generalized anxiety disorder scale is useful to evaluate this psychiatric condition in patients with epilepsy; however, it has not been adapted linguistically or culturally for patients with this disease in the Cuban context.…”
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Shell colour luminance of Cuban painted snails, Polymita picta and Polymita muscarum (Gastropoda: Cepolidae).
Published 2025-01-01“…This supports the hypothesis that colour has adaptive value for thermoregulation, encompassing not only the background colour but also the coloration of the bands. …”
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Satisfaction of Cuban Graduates from the Medical Major with the received training. Academic Year 2015 2016, Cienfuegos
Published 2017-08-01“…<br /> <strong>Results:</strong> More than 80 % of the surveyed showed their satisfaction regarding the contribution of the Major to the promotion and consolidation of the personal qualities so as the training received for the professional performance and the teaching staff performance. …”
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La maison aux esprits : configurations spatiales, pluralité religieuse et syncrétismes dans l’espace domestique afro-cubain
Published 2018-06-01“…This article proposes an examination of the role of spatiality in the construction of Afro-Cuban religious plurality. The question at the heart of its problematic is the following: how can different religions coexist within the same space, and, especially, how can space enable the expression of religious plurality? …”
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Smoking. Addiction that Causes more Deaths than AIDS
Published 2012-02-01“…We describe the direct link between smoking and some chronic diseases such as lung cancer and ischemic heart disease. Given that the Cuban government has expressed its political and legal will, gradually oriented to the eradication of this addiction, we urge the community to comply with legislations related to smoking control.…”
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Hospitalization costs for children younger than five years of age for gastroenteritis caused by rotavirus. Cienfuegos Pediatric Hospital, 2018
Published 2021-12-01“…<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to estimate the institutional cost of hospitalization of patients younger than five years of age because of gastroenteritis due to rotavirus.…”
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The Location of Hotels and Their Exposure to Hurricanes in Cuba—Implication for Tourism Development in the Context of Climate Change
Published 2024-12-01“…The results indicate that although the whole Cuban archipelago is exposed to hurricanes, the tourist regions in Cuba’s western provinces have a greater chance of being affected than those located in the center, east, and south. …”
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Numerical Simulations of the 1 May 2012 Deep Convection Event over Cuba: Sensitivity to Cumulus and Microphysical Schemes in a High-Resolution Model
Published 2015-01-01“…ERA Interim is used as lateral boundary condition data for the downscaling procedure. Results show that convective schemes are more important than microphysics schemes for determining the precipitation areas within a high-resolution domain simulation. …”
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Regarding the Current Debate on Aging in Cuba
Published 2023-12-01“…In Cuba, more people die than are born, mainly due to low replacement levels in fertility, a situation aggravated in the years of the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Granma adolescents´ fertility in the 2015-2020 period
Published 2021-08-01“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> Cuban fertility is below replacement, a condition that has been maintained for more than four decades. …”
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Population genetic structure of Phaedranassa cinerea Ravenna (Amaryllidaceae) and conservation implications
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Chronic Inflammatory Periodontal Disease in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
Published 2009-07-01“…The occurrence of the disease was determined after the Periodontics Cuban Standards, and oral hygiene was assessed through the simplified oral hygiene index. …”
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Jusvinza treatment resolution in confirmed COVID-19 patients. Santiago de Cuba, 2021
Published 2024-01-01“…<br /><strong>Results</strong>: morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 was higher in males, related to comorbidities and age over 60 years; The female sex was the one with the greatest response to treatment with Jusvinza (71.7%), which increased its percentage in the absence of associated chronic non-communicable diseases (81.4%). High-risk patients had the lowest mortality (15.8%). <br /><strong>Conclusions</strong>: resolution in confirmed COVID-19 patients treated with Jusvinza was higher in high-risk cases than in severe and critical cases.…”
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Mortality Burden of Cancer of the Lip, Oral Cavity and Pharynx
Published 2022-12-01“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> the burden of cancer of the lip, oral cavity and pharynx in Cuba has increased, it was higher in men, the trend is growing in both sexes, both men and women died at younger ages due to nasopharyngeal cancer than, due to other locations studied, the percentage change was higher for pharyngeal cancer.…”
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Atherogenic Risk Factors in Medical Students
Published 2020-12-01“…<br /> <strong>Results:</strong> the most frequent atherogenic risk factors detected were: obesity (17.65 %), dyslipidemia (16.7 %), smoking (33.5 %), arterial hypertension (9.4 %), frequent consumption of alcoholic beverages (28.2 %), related family pathological history (22.9 %) and inadequate diets (62.2 %), whose values in the statistical analysis were significant. More than the 40 % of the patients had two or more risk factors. …”
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