Revista médica de Chile
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Revista médica de Chile · Sep 2019
[Lifestyles of Chilean housewives. Analysis of the 2009-2010 Chilean Health Survey].
Housewives represent a important proportion of the Chilean population. However, there is limited evidence about their lifestyles. ⋯ Housewives had high levels of central obesity, excess body weight and high levels of salt intake but low alcohol intake. Their healthy lifestyles behaviors increased along with increasing age.
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Revista médica de Chile · Sep 2019
[Julio Escámez Contreras and his masterful mural History of the Medicine and Pharmacy in Chile].
Julio Escámez Contreras was a highly creative, skilled and versatile Chilean painter who painted in Chile from 1940 to 1974 when he went into exile to Costa Rica and died there in 2015. In 1953-54, Escámez painted a large mural in a private pharmacy in the city of Concepcion, Chile, The History of Medicine and Pharmacy in Chile. This mural describes the origins and development of medicine and pharmacy in Chile, placing that origin in the medicinal activities of the mapuche indigenous population. ⋯ Read from left to right, the mural provides a highly lively, accurate and valid depiction of the evolution of medicine and pharmacy in Chile. Escámez' artistry and skill in the use of perspective, color, landscape, architecture and Chilean subjects, including real life individuals, produces a typical Chilean mural. However, his originality and consummate use of a non-verbal visual language delivers a more universal message, one that helps to explain the repeated efforts, of the government responsible for his exile, to destroy some of the works produced by him.
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Recent data suggest an increase in tuberculosis (TB) incidence in Chile. ⋯ TB trends and overall program performance indicators have deteriorated in recent years in Chile and several factors appear to be involved. Multiple strategies will be required to rectify this situation.
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Revista médica de Chile · Aug 2019
[Immunocompetent adults hospitalized for a community-acquired pneumonia: Serum C-reactive protein as a prognostic marker].
C-reactive protein (CRP) is used to monitor patients' response during treatment of infectious diseases. Morbidity and mortality associated with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is high, particularly in hospitalized patients. Better risk prediction during hospitalization could improve management and ultimately reduce mortality rates. ⋯ CRP responses at third day of hospital admission was a valuable predictor of adverse events in hospitalized CAP adult patients.