• Cohort profile: The Maule Cohort (MAUCO) 

    Ferreccio, Catterina; Huidobro-Muñoz, Andrea; Cortés, Sandra; Bambs, Claudia; Toro, Pablo; Van de Wyngard, Vanessa; Acevedo, Johanna; Paredes, Fabio; Venegas, Pia; Verdejo, Hugo E.; Oyarzún-González, Ximena; Cook, Paz; Castro, Pablo F.; Foerster, Claudia; Vargas, Claudio; Koshiol, Jill; Araya, Juan C.; Cruz, Francisco; Corvalán, Alejandro H.; Quest, Andrew F.; Kogan, Marcelo J.; Lavandero, Sergio (2020)
  • Exposición a plaguicidas en Chile y salud poblacional. Urgencia para la toma de decisiones 

    Zúñiga-Venegas, Liliana A.; Saracini, Chiara; Pancetti, Floria; Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Foerster, Claudia; Cortés, Sandra (2021)
    In the last 25 years, Chile has had an expanding role as an agro-export country in the global economy, with efficient rates of productivity in the region, based on the technological development of agriculture, with of large ...

  • Health effects of pesticide exposure in latin american and the caribbean populations: a scoping review 

    Zúñiga-Venegas, Liliana A.; Hyland, Carly; Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Quiros-Alcala, Lesliam; Butinof, Mariana; Junqueira Buralli, Rafael; Cardenas, Andres; Fernández, Ricardo Antonio; Foerster, Claudia; Gouveia, Nelson; Gutiérrez-Jara, Juan P.; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Muñoz, María Pía; Ramirez, Muriel; Smith, Anna R; Tirado, Noemi; Wendel de Joode, Berna van; Calaf, Gloria M; Handal, Alexis J; Soares da Silva, Agnes; Cortés, Sandra; Mora, Ana Maria (2022)
    Background: Multiple epidemiological studies have shown that exposure to pesticides is associated with adverse health outcomes. However, the literature on pesticide-related health effects in the Latin American and the ...

  • Levels of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/furans (PCDD/Fs) and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (DL-PCBs) in human breast milk in Chile: A pilot study 

    Foerster, Claudia; Zúñiga-Venegas, Liliana A.; Enríquez, Pedro; Rojas, Jacqueline; Zamora, Claudia; Muñoz, Ximena; Pancetti, Floria; Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Saracini, Chiara; Salas, Claudio; Cortés, Sandra (2021)
    Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that resist biochemical degradation, moving long distances across the atmosphere before deposition occurs. Our goal was to provide up-to-date data on the levels ...

  • Study protocol for the Maule Cohort (MAUCO) of chronic diseases, Chile 2014–2024 

    Huidobro-Muñoz, Andrea; Silva-Prado, Raúl; Ferreccio, Catterina; Roa, Juan Carlos; Bambs, Claudia; Vives, Alejandra; Corvalán, Alejandro H.; Cortés, Sandra; Foerster, Claudia; Acevedo, Johanna; Passi, Alvaro; Toro, Pablo; Covacevich, Yerko; De la Cruz, Rolando; Koshiol, Jill; Olivares, Mauricio; Miquel, Juan Francisco; Cruz, Francisco; Quest, Andrew F.; Kogan, Marcelo J.; Castro, Pablo F.; Lavandero, Sergio (2016)
    Background: Maule Cohort (MAUCO), a Chilean cohort study, seeks to analyze the natural history of chronic diseases in the agricultural county of Molina (40,000 inhabitants) in the Maule Region, Chile. Molina´s population ...