Browsing Artículos científicos by Subject "NIÑOS"

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    • Caregiving and infants' neurodevelopment in rural Costa Rica: Results from the Infants’ Environmental Health Study (ISA) 

      Till, Christine; Dudani, Ameeta; Cordoba, Leonel; Cano, Juan Camilo; Green, Rivka; Menezes-Filho, José; Schnaas, Lourdes; Smith, Donald R.; Lindh, Christian; van Wendel de Joode, Berna (Elsevier, 2019-09)
      Early caregiving is one of the strongest influences on children's development, and among the most significant modifiable environmental factor. The aim of this study was to explore the association between quality of ...

    • Caregiving and infants' neurodevelopment in rural Costa Rica: results from the Infants’ Environmental Health Study (ISA) 

      Till, Christine; Dudani, Ameeta; Cordoba, Leonel; Cano, Juan Camilo; Green, Rivka; Menezes-Filho, José A.; Schnaas, Lourdes; Smith, Donald R.; Lindh, Christian; van Wendel de Joode, Berna (Elsevier, 2019-06-05)
      Early caregiving is one of the strongest influences on children’s development, and among the most significant modifiable environmental factor. The aim of this study was to explore the association between quality of ...

    • Central nervous system tumours in children in Costa Rica: 1981–96 

      Reutfors, Johan; Kramárová, Eva; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Monge, Patricia; Wesseling, Catharina; Ahlbom, Anders (Blackwell Science, 2002)
      Incidence rates of malignant central nervous system (CNS) tumours in children in Costa Rica are presented in an international perspective. For the 16-year period 1981–96, a total of 256 CNS tumours were registered in ...

    • Incidence of childhood cancer in Costa Rica, 2000–2014: An international perspective 

      Erdmann, Friederike; Li, Tengfei; Luta, George; Giddings, Brenda M.; Torres Alvarado, Guillermo; Steliarova-Foucher, Eva; Schüz, Joachim; Mora, Ana Maria (Elsevier, 2018-10-18)
      Background: Estimating childhood cancer incidence globally is hampered by a lack of reliable data from lowand middle-income countries. Costa Rica is one of the few middle-income countries (MIC) with a long-term high quality ...

    • Incidence of childhood cancer in Costa Rica, 2000–2014: An international perspective 

      Erdmann, Friederike; Tengfei, Li; Luta, George; Giddings, Brenda M.; Torres Alvarado, Guillermo; Steliarova-Foucher, Eva; Schüz, Joachim; Mora, Ana Maria (Elsevier, 2018-10)
      Background: Estimating childhood cancer incidence globally is hampered by a lack of reliable data from low- and middle-income countries. Costa Rica is one of the few middle-income countries (MIC) with a long-term high ...

    • Maternal residential pesticide use and risk of childhoodleukemia in Costa Rica 

      Hyland, Carly; Gunier, Robert; Metayer, Catherine; Bates, Michael N.; Wesseling, Catharina; Mora, Ana Maria (Wiley-Liss Inc., 2018-04-15)
      Evidence suggests that early-life exposure to pesticides inside the home may be associated with childhood leukemia, howeverdata from Latin American countries are limited. We examined whether self-reported maternal residential ...

    • Pesticide exposure and neurodevelopment in children age 6-9 years from Talamanca, Costa Rica. 

      van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Mora, Ana María; Lindh, Christian; Hernández Bonilla, David; Córdoba, Leonel; Wesseling, Catharina; Hoppin, Jane; Mergler, Donna (Elsevier Ltd, 2016-09-05)
      Certain pesticides may affect children's neurodevelopment. We assessed whether pesticide exposure was associated with impaired neurobehavioral outcomes in children aged 6e9 years. We conducted a cross-sectional study ...

    • Prenatal mancozeb exposure, excess manganese, and neurodevelopment at 1 year of age in the Infants' Environmental Health (ISA) study 

      Mora, Ana Maria; Cordoba, Leonel; Cano, Juan C.; Hernandez-Bonilla, David; Pardo, Larissa; Smith, Donald R.; Menezes-Filho, José A.; Mergler, Donna; Lindh, Christian H.; Eskenazi, Brenda; van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Schnaas, Lourdes (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2018-05-29)
      BACKGROUND: Although growing evidence suggests that early-life excess manganese (Mn) impairs neurodevelopment, data on the neurodevelopmental effects of mancozeb, a fungicide containing Mn, and its main metabolite ...

    • Prenatal pesticide exposure and respiratory health outcomes in the first year of life: Results from the infants’ Environmental Health (ISA) study 

      Mora, Ana Maria; Hoppin, Jane; Cordoba, Leonel; Cano, Juan Camilo; Soto-Martínez, Manuel; Eskenazi, Brenda; Lindh, Christian; van Wendel de Joode, Berna (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2020-01-29)
      Background: Growing evidence suggests that pesticide exposure may influence respiratory health, but data in young children are very limited. We examined the association of prenatal pesticide exposure with lower respiratory ...