This study aimed to exhaustively explore the characteristics of food advertising on TV in Guatemala and Costa Rica. The International Network for Food and Obesity Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Research, Monitoring and Action Support (INFORMAS) methodology was applied. In 2016, we recorded 1440 h of vi...
Muñoz-Manrique, Cinthya;
Ancira-Moreno, Mónica;
Burrola-Méndez, Soraya;
Isabel Omaña-Guzmán, Isabel;
Hoyos-Loya, Elizabeth;
Hernández-Cordero, Sonia;
Trejo-Domínguez, Alejandra;
Mazariegos, Mónica;
Smith, Natalia;
Alonso-Carmona, Scarlett;
Mier-Cabrera, Jennifer;
Tavano-Colaizzi, Loredana;
Sánchez-Múzquiz, Belén;
Avendaño-Álvarez, Fermín;
Muciño-Sandoval, Karla;
Rodríguez-Moguel, Nadia C;
Padilla-Camacho, Magali;
Espino-y-Sosa, Salvador;
Ibarra-González, Lizeth;
Medina-Avilés, Cristina.
This work aimed to identify clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) that include recommendations for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of women’s malnutrition during pregnancy and to evaluate the quality of these guidelines using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE II) ins...
Resumen: Presentamos un caso de una paciente femenina de 27 años, con síndrome de Cushing ACTH dependiente con hipercortisolismo severo, causado por un macroadenoma hipofisario recurrente y resistente pese a dos cirugías transesfenoidales, radioterapia y terapia médica. Dada la falla en las diferente...
Objective: The current study investigates whether maternal SES as assessed by the newly developed Global Network-SES Index is associated with pregnancy outcomes (stillbirths, perinatal mortality, and neonatal mortality) in six LMICs: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Pakistan, a...
To identify the corporate political activity (CPA) strategies used by food industry actors during the development of two public health nutrition policies in Central America: Law #570 (taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages) in Panama and Bill #5504 (labelling and food marketing regulations) in Guatemala. ...
La Cruzada Nacional por la Nutrición es la estrategia que busca unir a todos los sectores del país; gubernamental (central y municipal), de la empresa privada, las organizaciones no gubernamentales, de cooperación internacional, académico, religioso y sociedad civil con
la finalidad de mejorar la nut...
Krebs, Nancy F;
Hambidge, K M;
Westcott, Jamie L;
Garcés, Ana L;
Figueroa, Lester;
Tshefu, Antoinette K;
Lokangaka, Adrien L;
Goudar, Shivaprasad S;
Dhaded, Sangappa M;
Saleem, Sarah;
Ali, S A;
Bauserman, MS;
Derman, RJ;
Goldenberg, RL;
Das, A;
Chowdhury, D.
Background. The multicountry Women First trial demonstrated that nutritional supplementation initiated prior to conception (arm 1) or early pregnancy (arm 2) and continued until delivery resulted in significantly greater length at birth and 6 mo compared with infants in the control arm (arm 3).
Objective...
Naqvi, S;
Naqvi, F;
Saleem, S;
Thorsten, VR;
Figueroa, L;
Mazariegos, M;
Garcés, A;
Patel, A;
Das, P;
Kavi, A;
Goudar, SS;
Esamai, F;
Mwenchanya, M;
Chomba, E;
Lokangaka, A;
Tshefu, A;
Yousuf, S;
Bauserman, M;
Bose, CL;
Liechty, EA;
Krebs, NF;
Derman, RJ;
Carlo, WA;
Hibberd, PL;
Billah, SM;
Peres-da-Silva, N;
Haque, R;
Petri, WA Jr;
Koso-Thomas, M;
Nolen, T;
McClure, EM;
Goldenberg, RL.
Objective: To assess, on a population basis, the medical care for pregnant women in
specific geographic regions of six countries before and during the first year of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in relationship to pregnancy outcom. Results: Across all sites, a small but statistically ...
The prevalence of mental health concerns is growing worldwide, along with lack of access to and receipt of needed treatment. Current gaps in treatment provision have led to exploring alternative methods of prevention, with research linking nutrition and mental health, of particular relevance in low- and ...
