• A positive relationship between exposure to heavy metals and development of chronic diseases: A case study from Chile 

    Cortés, Sandra; Zúñiga-Venegas, Liliana A.; Pancetti, Floria; Covarrubias, Alejandra; Ramírez-Santana, Muriel; Adaros, Héctor; Muñoz, Luis (2021)
    Chile is a mining country, where waste mining is frequently found in the vicinity of inhabited areas. To explore the association between metal exposure and alterations in glucose metabolism, inflammatory status, and oxidative ...

  • 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 ...