Temporal and Spatial Trends of Adverse Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes in a Sample of Births from a Public Hospital in Chile.

Understanding temporal and spatial trends in pregnancy and birth outcomes within an urban area is important for the monitoring of health indicators of a population. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all births in the public hospital of Temuco, a medium-sized city in Southern Chile between 2009 and 2016 (n = 17,237). Information on adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes, as well as spatial and maternal characteristics (insurance type, employment, smoking, age, and overweight/obesity), was collected from medical charts.

Varicocele at High Altitude; Venous Outflow Restriction by Hypobaric Hypoxia.

Background: Testicular aches have been reported to occur on exposure to high altitude (HA). As a painful expression of venous congestion at the pampiniform plexus, varicocele (VC) might be a consequence of cardiovascular adjustments at HA. Chile's National Social Security Regulatory Body (SUSESO) emphasized evaluating this condition in the running follow-up study "Health effects of exposure to chronic intermittent hypoxia in Chilean mining workers.

Association between maximum temperature and PM with pregnancy outcomes in Lima, Peru.

Background: We have previously documented an inverse relationship between PM in Lima, Peru, and reproductive outcomes. Here, we investigate the effect of temperature on birth weight, birth weight-Z-score adjusted for gestational age, low birth weight, and preterm birth. We also explore interactions between PM and temperature.

High altitude exposure affects male reproductive parameters: could it also affect the prostate?†.

Living at high altitudes and living with prostatic illness are two different conditions closely related to a hypoxic environment. People at high altitudes exposed to acute, chronic or intermittent hypobaric hypoxia turn on several mechanisms at the system, cellular, and molecular level to cope with oxygen atmosphere scarcity maintaining the oxygen homeostasis. This exposure affects the whole organism and function of many systems, such as cardiovascular, respiratory, and reproductive.

Health Effects of Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia at a High Altitude among Chilean Miners: Rationale, Design, and Baseline Results of a Longitudinal Study.

Objectives: This study aims to assess the health effects on mining workers of exposure to chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) at high- and very high-altitude mining compared with similar work at lower altitudes in Chile, and it also aims to constitute the baseline of a 5-year follow-up study.

Methods: We designed a cross-sectional study to assess health conditions in 483 miners working at 2 levels of altitude exposure: 336 working at a very high or high altitude (HA; 247 above 3900-4400 m, and 89 at 3000-3900 m), and 147 below 2400 m. Subjects were randomly selected in two stages.

Effects of chronic intermittent hypobaric hypoxia on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in Chilean miners.

Objective: The aim was to determine the effects of chronic intermittent hypobaric hypoxia (CIHH) on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in Chilean miners who work at different altitudes.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between April and July 2019. Miners from five mines (N=338) at different altitudes were evaluated.

[Bioethics and environmental justice in the health of the Andean residents of Peru].

This article attempts to capture the bioethical-environmental panorama of the health in the residents who live on the Peruvian highlands, highlighting the inequity in access to health services that exist in this region and reflecting on the possible historical and current contextual causes that have originated differences between Inca-Andean settler and modern-Andean settler. The change in the view of the world about the environment and natural resources, the decline of justice approach, loss of solidarity, welfare, and respect to human being and nature. Besides, we describe health from a historical scenario of this region, where Public health has and will have as a challenge the application of programs that respond to the specific needs of this population, with a focus on the environment.