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Factors influencing the use of biomedical health care by rural Bolivian anemic women : structural barriers, reproductive status, gender roles, and concepts of anemia
(PLOS One, 2017-01-26)
Abstract. The persistently high prevalence of anemia in rural highland Bolivia argues for targeted iron supplementation.
We evaluated the cultural, structural and behavioral factors that may facilitate or impede an
anemic ...
Excessive polycythemia occurs in young high-altitude (3600 m) residents in the absence o lung disease
(Health & height proceeding, 2002)
Summary.
Chronic mountain sickness is present in about 8% of the male population of La Paz. Our question was whether its principal diagnostic sign, excessive polycythemia (EP) without lung disease could be found already ...
New data demonstrates that relationship of salivary to serum progesterone in Bolivian women is comparable to that in other populations
(36th Annual Meeting Minnesota, 2011-04-13)
Abstract.
Salivary progesterone (P) concentration is widely
used in field studies as a relatively easy-to-measure
proxy for serum P. Chatterton et al. [Fertility & Sterility 86:723 (2006)] compared sample means of ...
Excessive polycythemia occurs in young high-altitude (3600 M) residents in the absence of lung disease
(High Altitude Medicine & Biology, 2002-04-18)
Objective: Chronic Mountain Sickness occurs in , 8% of the La Paz
population. We asked whether its primary diagnostic sign, excessive polycythemia (EP), occurred in youngeraged persons
without lung disease. Methods: ...
Efectos del tabaquismo en una población de altura (La Paz- Bolivia 3600 m.)
(Revista Boliviana de Nefrología, 1990)
The effects of smoking on a high altitude population. (La Paz, Bolivia, 3600m or 12,200ft)
(Tobacco and Health, 1990)
Barometric pressure (PB) decreases with increasing a altitude. Since oxygen concentration is about 21% in the air of
the whole atmosphere, its partial pressure is also 21% of PB. At the altitude of La Paz (3600)m or ...