Publications by authors named "J Pierre Zila-Velasque"
Background: Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) affects 1 in 400 newborns and requires early intervention to prevent neonatal mortality. In Peru, neonatal CCHD screening is primarily implemented in the capital, but its impact on patient outcomes remains unclear.
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the short-term outcomes of an early CCHD-detection program at the National Maternal Perinatal Institute in Lima, Peru.
Background: Existing literature has not stablished the factors associated with sleep quality, which requires further research in the context of the mental health of future medical professionals. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and factors related to sleep quality in Latin American medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: Cross-sectional multicenter analytic study of secondary data analysis in Latin American medical students.
Background And Aims: Impaired glucose intolerance (IGT) and impaired fasting glucose (IFG) are totally different. Lifestyle modification is effective in moving from prediabetes to normoglycaemia. There is a lack of information showing the effect of lifestyle modification according to each prediabetes and assessing its effect on the degree of reversibility to normoglycaemia and on cardiometabolic markers.
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- * A meta-analysis of 28 studies, with a total of 29,195 participants, revealed an overall prevalence of 30.3%, with variation based on altitude levels.
- * Key findings show that women had a higher prevalence (35.5%) than men (26.8%), and the disease components like abdominal obesity and low HDL cholesterol were notably common, while high blood pressure and high triglycerides were less frequent.
Objective: Chronic and acute mountain sickness is known worldwide, but most of the available information comes from the eastern continent (Himalayas) without taking into account the west which has the most recent group located at altitude, the Andes. The aim of this study was to synthesize the evidence on the prevalence of acute and chronic mountain sickness in Latin American countries (LATAM).
Methods: A systematic search of the variables of interest was performed until July 8, 2023 in the Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed and Embase databases.