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Background: Risk stratification is a cornerstone of cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and a main strategy proposed to achieve global goals of reducing premature CVD deaths. There are no cardiovascular risk scores b...

Forest cover change directly affects biodiversity, the global carbon budget, and ecosystem function. Within Latin American and the Caribbean region (LAC), many studies have documented extensive deforestation, but there a...

We developed a conceptual framework that describes the key role of ecosystem services in urban ecological infrastructure. From this framework we analyze how research on ecosystem services has been addressed in cities of ...

Reports on ectoparasites on dogs in Central America are scarce. The aim of this study was to identify flea, louse and tick species infesting dogs in home environments on the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica, and determine t...

Latin America and the Caribbean is known worldwide as the most unequal region on the planet. However, all the academic attention given to its levels of poverty and income distribution has not been matched by the study of...

This paper documents patterns and recent developments on different dimensions of inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). New comparative international evidence confirms that LAC is a region of high inequalit...

This paper takes advantage of a new source of information-the Gallup World Poll 2006-to estimate and characterize income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compar...

Poverty still is one of the central problems in Latin America and the Caribbean. As measured by international poverty lines, approximately one out of every five people in the region is poor. Consequently, the elimination...

Our study critically surveys financial inclusion in Latin American and Caribbean countries, gauging access to both credit and deposit accounts by poor households. Our review confirms some pieces of conventional wisdom in...

Introduction: In recent decades, Caribbean coral reefs have lost many vital marine species due to diseases. The well-documented mass mortality event of the long-spined black sea urchin Diadema antillarum in the early 198...

Two new cauliflorous species of Aristolochia subseries Anthocaulicae from southern Central America are described and illustrated. Aristolochia guanacastensis from northwestern Costa Rica resembles A. ruiziana, from which...

Purpose. This research examines how the expansion of Indian Premier League Franchises into foreign leagues contributes to India’s global image and soft power influence in international cricket. Methodology. Using a mix...

IntroductionLung adenocarcinoma remains the most common subtype of non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), yet molecular epidemiology and real-world outcomes in Caribbean populations are poorly documented.MethodsWe conduct...

Xenarthrans -anteaters, sloths, and armadillos- have essential functions for ecosystem maintenance, such as insect control and nutrient cycling, playing key roles as ecosystem engineers. Because of habitat loss and fragm...

Abstract Introduction The majority of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection diagnoses in France involve migrant populations, who face challenges in navigating...

Se denomina imposex a la aparición de caracteres sexuales secundarios en hembras de neogasterópodos producidos por laexposición a tributil-estaño (TBT). No existen hasta la fecha reportes de este fenómeno en el Cari...

Introduction and aims: This article aims to answer how emerging technologies, education, and governance can be strategically integrated to improve oral health in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). By focusing on Vene...

Environmental factors such as air pollution, weather events, and ambient toxins are major contributors to human disease, with disproportionate impacts on vulnerable populations. In Puerto Rico, chronic exposure to air po...

The response of South American rivers to ENSO stimuli is studied under three conditions: El Niño (EN), Anti-Niño (AN), and normal years. A regionalization is thus obtained. Rivers in coastal Peru, Ecuador and extreme s...

The world expansion of trade in manufactured goods has been more dynamic than production over the last 25 years. The greater trade openness was due more to the growth of extra-regional trade than to intra-regional trade....

Objetivo/contexto: El artículo se enfoca en explicar y describir el vínculo entre política exterior y cooperación al desarrollo, a partir de la identificación y el análisis de las distintas rationales que dan senti...

Mansonella ozzardi (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) is an understudied filarial nematode, originally described by Patrick Manson in 1897, that can be transmitted by two families of dipteran vectors, biting midges (most of them ...

Os diversos estudos sobre a cultura popular tradicional em Cuba têm amplos precedentes, desde o final do século XIX até o presente. A realização, ao longo de duas décadas, do Atlas de los instrumentos de la música...

Various traditions have investigated the relationship between emotion and language. For the basic emotions view, emotional prototypes are lexically sedimented in language, evidenced in cultural convergence in emotional r...