Ten-Year Follow-up of 9-Valent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Immunogenicity, Effectiveness, and Safety.

Background And Objectives: The 9-valent human papillomavirus (9vHPV) vaccine Phase III immunogenicity study in 9- to 15-year-old boys and girls was extended to assess immunogenicity and effectiveness through 10 years after the last vaccine dose (NCT00943722).

Methods: Boys (n = 301) and girls (n = 971) who received three 9vHPV vaccine doses in the base study (day 1, months 2 and 6) enrolled in the extension. Serum was collected through month 126 for antibody assessments by competitive Luminex immunoassay and immunoglobulin G-Luminex immunoassay.

Long-term immunogenicity, effectiveness, and safety of nine-valent human papillomavirus vaccine in girls and boys 9 to 15 years of age: Interim analysis after 8 years of follow-up.

Background: The nine-valent human papillomavirus (9vHPV) vaccine protects against infection and disease related to HPV types 6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58. The pivotal 36-month Phase III immunogenicity study of 9vHPV vaccine in 9- to 15-year-old girls and boys was extended to assess long-term immunogenicity and effectiveness through approximately 10 years after vaccination. We describe results of an interim analysis based on approximately 8 years of follow-up after vaccination.

Shift in body fat distribution from lower body to upper body among urban Colombian women, 1988-1989 to 2007-2008.

Objective: Body fat distribution may be a stronger predictor of metabolic risk than BMI. Yet, few studies have investigated secular changes in body fat distribution in middle-income countries or how those changes vary by socioeconomic status (SES). This study evaluated changes in body fat distribution by SES in Colombia, a middle-income country where BMI is increasing rapidly.

Efficacy, immunogenicity, and safety of a 9-valent human papillomavirus vaccine in Latin American girls, boys, and young women.

Background: A 9-valent human papillomavirus (HPV6/11/16/18/31/33/45/52/58; 9vHPV) vaccine was developed to expand coverage of the previously developed quadrivalent (HPV6/11/16/18; qHPV) vaccine.

Methods: Efficacy, immunogenicity, and safety outcomes were assessed in Latin American participants enrolled in 2 international studies of the 9vHPV vaccine, including a randomized, double-blinded, controlled with qHPV vaccine, efficacy, immunogenicity, and safety study in young women aged 16-26 years, and an immunogenicity and safety study in girls and boys aged 9-15 years. Participants (N=5312) received vaccination at Day 1, Month 2, and Month 6.

Stable isotopes (carbon, nitrogen, sulfur), diet, and anthropometry in urban Colombian women: investigating socioeconomic differences.

Objectives: We conducted stable isotope and dietary analyses of women from higher and lower socioeconomic status (SES) groups in Cali, Colombia. The objectives were to test between-group differences in stable isotope, dietary, and anthropometric characteristics, and to evaluate relationships between diet and stable isotope values.

Methods: Hair samples from 38 women (mean age 33.

Local trends in diet in urban Colombia, 1990-1995 to 2008: little evidence of a nutrition transition among low-income women.

Objectives: To quantify changes in the diets of low-income women in Cali, Colombia between 1990-1995 and 2008, a period of increases in body size, and to situate these changes within national-level trends in food availability, as well as to compare these changes with those expected in countries undergoing a nutrition transition.

Methods: Individual dietary intake was assessed via 24-hour recalls in both 1990-1995 (n = 85) and 2008 (n = 88). Dietary data were analyzed for intake of energy, macronutrients, and specific food items.

Exploring the multidimensionality of stature variation in the past through comparisons of archaeological and living populations.

Adult stature variation is commonly attributed to differential stress-levels during development. However, due to selective mortality and heterogeneous frailty, a population's tall stature may be more indicative of high selective pressures than of positive life conditions. This article examines stature in a biocultural context and draws parallels between bioarchaeological and living populations to explore the multidimensionality of stature variation in the past.

Clinical characteristics and HPV type in recurrent respiratory papillomatosis in Colombia.

Objective: Describe factors associated with aggressive forms of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP).

Materials And Methods: One hundred eighty-nine RRP cases diagnosed between 1985 and 2009 were identified in pathological records. HPV was detected by the SPF-10 method with broad spectrum primers, (version 1).

Socioeconomic status, stature, and obesity in women: 20-year trends in urban Colombia.

Objectives: Ongoing social and economic changes in developing countries are associated with increases in body size, and most notably increases in the prevalence of obesity. The social patterning of these changes in terms of socioeconomic status (SES) is not well documented. The aim of this study was to assess the changes in stature, body mass index (BMI) and fatness in adult women in urban Cali, Colombia between 1988-1989 and 2007-2008.

Human papillomavirus genotype detection in recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) in Colombia.

Background: Knowledge on human papillomavirus (HPV) genotype distribution in recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is essential to assess the impact of HPV vaccine. It is provided information for Colombia.

Methods: In all, 189 RRP primary cases diagnosed between 1985 and 2009 were identified from 5 pathology laboratories of Cali and Medellin, Colombia.

Effects of a new Helicobacter pylori infection on height and weight in Colombian children.

Purpose: The aim of the study is to investigate whether a new infection caused by Helicobacter pylori in preschool children transiently or permanently affects height and weight.

Methods: A cohort of 347 children from three day care centers was followed up for a median of 494 days. Breath tests and anthropometric measurements were performed every 2 to 4 months.

Impact of Helicobacter pylori infection on growth of children: a prospective cohort study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to prospectively follow a cohort of children without Helicobacter pylori infection and to compare growth velocity in the children who become infected during follow-up with that of children who remained infection-free.

Methods: Three hundred forty-seven children in general good health, aged 12 to 60 months, who tested negative for H. pylori by the 13C-urea breath test, from three daycare centers in a lower-middle class borough of Cali, Colombia, were monitored for 2.

Anthropometric characteristics of pregnant women in Cali, Colombia and relationship to birth weight.

Anthropometric dimensions were collected from 46 pregnant women living in Cali, Colombia to gain a better understanding of how poor, urban women deal with the demands of pregnancy and to identify relationships between maternal characteristics and infant birth weight. Height, weight, skinfold thicknesses (subscapular, suprailiac, thigh, calf, and triceps), and circumferences (hip, thigh, calf, and mid-upper arm) were measured on all women. Infant measurements were weight and length.

Food and macronutrient intake of economically disadvantaged pregnant women in Colombia.

The objective of this article is to assess changes in diet composition, defined in terms of macronutrient intake and types of foods consumed, in pregnancy in poor urban women in Colombia. The subjects were 20 pregnant and 20 matched nonpregnant, nonlactating (NPNL) women 19 to 35 years of age. The pregnant women were studied in three measurement rounds at 14.

Household headship and nutritional status: Female-headed versus male/dual-headed households.

Approximately one-third of all poor urban households in Latin America are headed by females. This study compares the nutritional status of women and children from female-headed (FHH) and male/dual headed (MHH/DHH) households in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Cali, Colombia. Data collected included socioeconomic indicators, anthropometric dimensions, dietary intake, and interviews documenting household composition.

Comparative study of flex heart rate in colombian children and in pregnant, lactating, and non-pregnant, nonlactating women.

The heart rate (HR) value employed to separate resting and active portions of the calibration curves used to estimate energy expenditure (EE) from minute-by-minute HR recordings is called the flex-HR. The present study has characterized it, the resting HR and the average daily HR during the awake portion of the day (12-14 h) by comparing age, gender and nutritional status effects related to measured maximum oxygen consumption (V̇ O 2 max; ml/min/kg body weight)in school-aged Colombian children (145 boys and 132 girls), 6-16 years of age. The same HR variables have been individually measured in nutritionally normal, nonpregnant, nonlactating (NPNL; n = 48), pregnant (n = 26), and lactating (n = 18) women, 19-43 years of age, on three occasions separated by 3 months.

Energy expenditures of urban Colombian girls and women.

Anthropometry, basal metabolic rate (BMR), and resting energy expenditure (RMR) measured by indirect calorimetry and total daily energy expenditure (TDEE) by the minute-by-minute heart rate (HR) method have been studied in 52 school-aged girls 6-16 years and 46 nonpregnant, nonlactating women 19-43 years of age. BMR, RMR, and TDEE increased with age in children, reaching approximate adult values by 15 years. TDEE averaged 9.