Inequalities on mortality due to acute respiratory infection in children: A Colombian analysis.

Introduction: Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are a leading public health issue worldwide.

Objective: To explore the inequalities in ARI mortality rates in under-5, according to socioeconomic characteristics.

Materials And Methods: We conducted an ecological analysis to study inequalities at municipal level due to ARI mortality in children under 5 years.

Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Previously Treated With Docetaxel-Based Chemotherapy: Treatment Patterns From the PROXIMA Prospective Registry.

Purpose: There is a major clinical need to devise an optimal treatment sequence for the multiple therapy options available for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). In the absence of prospective clinical trials, sequencing information can be derived from large, real-world registry studies.

Patients And Methods: PROXIMA (Treatment Patterns in Patients With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Previously Treated With Docetaxel-Based Chemotherapy) is a large, global, prospective registry study evaluating real-world treatment patterns of patients with mCRPC who experience disease progression during or after docetaxel therapy.

[Costs of Chagas' disease screening test in blood donors in two Colombian blood banks, 2015].

Introduction: Transfusion is a mechanism of transmission of Chagas' disease. There are no studies on the costs of the screening test in Colombian blood banks.

Objective: To estimate the costs of the screening test for Chagas' disease among blood donors in two Colombian blood banks, 2015.

Dystropathology increases energy expenditure and protein turnover in the mdx mouse model of duchenne muscular dystrophy.

The skeletal muscles in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the mdx mouse model lack functional dystrophin and undergo repeated bouts of necrosis, regeneration, and growth. These processes have a high metabolic cost. However, the consequences for whole body energy and protein metabolism, and on the dietary requirements for these macronutrients at different stages of the disease, are not well-understood.