Publications by authors named "Griselda Negri"

Urolithiasis is the third most common pathological disease afflicting the urinary tract, and usually occurs between the third and fourth decades of an individual's life. Epidemiological studies about this condition are lacking in our country. In 1998, we performed an epidemiological, cross-sectional study of the prevalence of urolithiasis in a sample of 1,086 subjects, which included men and women of all ages, selected from the general population of the city of Buenos Aires.

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Objective: to study the most frequent death causes between young people during 1991 to 2000. We worked at the Epidemiological Research Center of the Buenos Aires Academy of Medicine, with all the country's death dates certified by the Ministry of Health. Argentine young population (10 to 24 years old) was of about 10,000,000 people, after the increase of 15% during the studied period.

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