South America

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Letter to the Editor: Differences in Rate of Stimulant Medication Use for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder by Western and Non-Western Origins. 
  • Achieving herd immunity in South America. 
  • Afforestation alters the composition of functional genes in soil and biogeochemical processes in South American grasslands. 
  • Biogeography in deep time - What do phylogenetics, geology, and paleoclimate tell us about early platyrrhine evolution? 
  • Birthplace, culture, self-esteem, and intimate partner violence among community-dwelling Hispanic women. 
  • Cardiovascular clinical research in South America. 
  • Characterization of heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction: a comparison between ADHERE-US registry and ADHERE-International registry. 
  • Child survival, height for age and household characteristics in Brazil. 
  • Climate Change, deforestation and the fate of the Amazon 
  • Comparison of Nonblood-Based and Blood-Based Total CV Risk Scores in Global Populations. 
  • Competition for hummingbird pollination shapes flower color variation in Andean solanaceae. 
  • Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots. 
  • Cryptococcus neoformans-Cryptococcus gattii species complex: an international study of wild-type susceptibility endpoint distributions and epidemiological cutoff values for fluconazole, itraconazole, posaconazole, and voriconazole. 
  • Daily rifapentine for treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. A randomized, dose-ranging trial. 
  • Diagnostic dilemma in a returning traveler with fever. 
  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest. 
  • Efficacy of zoniporide, an Na/H exchange ion inhibitor, for reducing perioperative cardiovascular events in vascular surgery patients. 
  • Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees. 
  • Functional properties of the hemoglobin from the South American snake Mastigodryas bifossatus. 
  • Genetic relationships and evolution of genotypes of yellow fever virus and other members of the yellow fever virus group within the Flavivirus genus based on the 3' noncoding region. 
  • Global Prevalence and Impact of Hostility, Discrimination, and Harassment in the Cardiology Workplace. 
  • Health and wages: evidence on men and women in urban Brazil. 
  • Hydrologic resilience and Amazon productivity. 
  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora. 
  • Impact of global geographic region on time in therapeutic range on warfarin anticoagulant therapy: data from the ROCKET AF clinical trial. 
  • Implementation of Tuberculosis Intensive Case Finding, Isoniazid Preventive Therapy, and Infection Control ("Three I's") and HIV-Tuberculosis Service Integration in Lower Income Countries. 
  • Macroevolution of Specificity in Cyanolichens of the Genus Peltigera Section Polydactylon (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota). 
  • Medication Discontinuation in the IMPROVE-IT Trial. 
  • Out of the net: An agent-based model to study human movements influence on local-scale malaria transmission. 
  • Paleoclimate. Trans-Atlantic climate connections. 
  • Pathogen-specific burdens of community diarrhoea in developing countries: a multisite birth cohort study (MAL-ED). 
  • Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001. 
  • Performance of delayed-enhancement magnetic resonance imaging with gadoversetamide contrast for the detection and assessment of myocardial infarction: an international, multicenter, double-blinded, randomized trial. 
  • Post-invasion demography of prehistoric humans in South America. 
  • Prices, infrastructure, household characteristics and child height. 
  • Rationale and design of the GRACE (Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events) Project: a multinational registry of patients hospitalized with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Relationship between clinical trial site enrollment with participant characteristics, protocol completion, and outcomes: insights from the EVEREST (Efficacy of Vasopressin Antagonism in Heart Failure: Outcome Study with Tolvaptan) trial. 
  • Renal function at two years in liver transplant patients receiving everolimus: results of a randomized, multicenter study. 
  • Reserves protect against deforestation fires in the Amazon. 
  • Responses of tropical native and invader C4 grasses to water stress, clipping and increased atmospheric CO2 concentration. 
  • Species delimitation and biogeography of a southern hemisphere liverwort clade, Frullania subgenus Microfrullania (Frullaniaceae, Marchantiophyta). 
  • The Association of Nutrition Status Expressed as Body Mass Index z Score With Outcomes in Children With Severe Sepsis: A Secondary Analysis From the Sepsis Prevalence, Outcomes, and Therapies (SPROUT) Study. 
  • The Impacts of Oil Palm on Recent Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss. 
  • The effect of systematic pediatric care on neonatal mortality and hospitalizations of infants born with oral clefts. 
  • The effects of Cenozoic global change on squirrel phylogeny. 
  • Transplantation for autoimmune diseases in north and South America: a report of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research. 
  • Using theory of change frameworks to develop evaluation strategies for research engagement: results of a pre-pilot study. 
  • Vaccine coverage and adherence to EPI schedules in eight resource poor settings in the MAL-ED cohort study. 
  • Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models. 
  • Woody vegetation dynamics in the tropical and subtropical Andes from 2001 to 2014: Satellite image interpretation and expert validation. 
  • Worldwide burden of HIV in transgender women: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Kay, Richard Frederick, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Earth and Climate Sciences
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Roth, V. Louise, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology