OBJECTIVE We describe trends in life expectancy at birth (LE) and between-country LE disparities since 1965, in Latin America and the Caribbean. METHODS & FINDINGS LE trends since 1965 are described for three geographical sub-regions: the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. LE disparities are explored using a suite of absolute and relative disparity metrics, with measurement consen...

The outcome of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is shaped by both clinical and genetic factors that determine its success. Genetic factors including human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and non-HLA genetic variants are believed to influence the risk of potentially fatal complications after the transplant. Moreover, ethnicity has been proposed as a factor modifying the risk of graft-versu...

Copyright © 2007 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online 72514 Circulation is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.633552 2007;115;1067-1074 Circulation America Shofiqul Islam, Salim Yusuf and for the INTERHEART Investigators in Latin Fernando Lanas, Alvaro Avezum, Leonelo E. Bautis...

Avian influenza or bird flu is a highly contagious acute viral disease that can occur in epidemics and cross-border forms in poultry and wild birds. The characteristics of avian influenza viruses (AIVs) allow the emergence of new viral variants, some with zoonotic and pandemic potential. AIVs have been identified in Latin America; however, there is a lack of understanding of these viruses at th...

Primary immunodeficiencies (PID) are genetic diseases that affect the immune system and for the last 20 years, the Latin American Society for Immunodeficiencies (LASID) has been promoting initiatives in awareness, research, diagnosis, and treatment for the affected patients in Latin America. These initiatives have resulted in the development of programmes such as the LASID Registry (with 4900 p...

☆ We benefited from helpful comments from Paul Rom Stanford Conference on Latin America and the Caribbea support by the Inter-American Development Bank (IAD search and Innovation of the Leibniz Association. ⁎ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 650 736 0942. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (E.A. Han (L. Woessmann). URL's: http://www.hanushek.net (E.A. Hanushek), http://www.cesifo.de/woessman...

Forty years ago, in 1967, I completed with Enzo Faletto, in Santiago de Chile, the draft of a book, Dependency and Democracy in Latin America. ◊ The book discussed the main interpretations on the theme of development. At that time, both of us worked at the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) better known in the region by its Spanish acronyms, CEPAL, the UN institution that proposed an ...