Puerto Rican
Cultural Adaptation and Open Pilot of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Puerto Rican Patients with Advanced Cancer
... in Puerto Rican patients with advanced cancer as part of a larger project led by ...the Puerto Rican population, but has also been shown to be understood and accepted by Puerto ...
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Heterogeneity of Childhood Asthma Among Hispanic Children: Puerto Rican Children Bear a Disproportionate Burden
... which might have explained the marked differences among the groups. A national data set that includes a broader set of asthma risk factors, the National Exami- nation and Nutrition Survey, does not have large enough ...
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Low vitamin D status strongly associated with periodontitis in Puerto Rican adults
... [15–18]. Puerto Ricans in particular are among the Hispanic groups with the highest vitamin D deficiency prevalence, as evidenced by a study of 358 Hispanic- American men, which found that those born in ...
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Original Article Tanycytic ependymoma in a 76-year-old Puerto Rican male
... We present a rare case of a Puerto Rican 76 year-old male with progressive movement impairment in his lower extremities that became wheelchair bound. Radiological and histological analyses confirmed the ...
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Resisting Anglicization : Irish and Puerto Rican intersections in New York in the twentieth century
... and he speaks Spanish to hide his opinions from the newcomer and the guards. As Davis waits to be let in to the dayroom, Murphy assesses the young man’s appearance and participates in the on-going conversation of the ...
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HPV-16 infection modifies overall survival of Puerto Rican HNSCC patients
... The complex anatomical structure of the head and neck area makes it very challenging for clinicians to determine the primary site of HNSCC [25]. Detection of HNSCC in- volves clinical and histological examinations of ...
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Incentive-based Intervention to Maintain Breastfeeding Among Low-income Puerto Rican Mothers
... WIC-receiving Puerto Rican mothers as the minimum amount of monthly incentives that would motivate them to breastfeed, and an escalating schedule of monthly incentives was used based on previous incentive- ...
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Population Viability Analysis of Puerto Rican Parrots: an assessment of its current status and prognosis for recovery.
... of Puerto Rican parrots is necessary to meet recovery criteria and to minimize the possibility of extinction of the ...of Puerto Rican Parrots (Amazona vittata) resides in the Luquillo ...of ...
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Substance Use and the Number of Male Sexual Partners by African American and Puerto Rican Women
... As hypothesized, the findings indicated that women who use substances (i.e., alcohol and cannabis) had a higher number of male sexual partners. Also, unmarried women as compared to married women and African American ...
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Comparative Study of Puerto Rican Attitudes Toward the Legal System Dealing with Crime
... The same trend is found for these groups on the average mean scores for the 89 "law items." The Puerto Rican prisoners test the least favorable on the 50 moral judgment items, while the [r] ...
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Association of serum lipid levels and prostate cancer severity among Hispanic Puerto Rican men
... in Puerto Rico, the BMI statistics, and the health disparity in prostate cancer mortality rates in this popu- lation, it is possible that lipid levels could influence the prostate cancer phenotype in this ...
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Quince Años: The Transition to Womanhood in Puerto Rican Culture, Laura Louise Plummer
... For several years I have been exceedingly curious about the female experience in all parts of the world. My academic studies have encompassed women's roles, women's liberation, feminist literature, and female rites of ...
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Acculturation and gestational weight gain in a predominantly puerto rican population
... After delivery, medical records were abstracted for medical and obstetric history, clinical characteristics of the current pregnancy and birth outcomes. Eligibility was restricted to women of Puerto Rican ...
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Association of genetic ancestry with colorectal tumor location in Puerto Rican Latinos
... increases the odds of having rectal tumors (Table 4). This finding is in contrast with the reported literature that has consistently found an increase in the diagnosis of proximal location of colorectal tumors in African ...
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Characterization of Puerto Rican West Nile Virus isolates in mice
... Juan, Puerto Rico (CDC ...The Puerto Rico isolates, PR423 and PR20wh, were iso- lated from mosquito pools (Culex nigripalpus) and serum from a sentinel chicken, ...
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The Feasibility of a market for a Puerto Rican/ Caribbean restaurant in Rochester, New York: A Pilot study
... of ethnic marinara, 68.9% familiar is highly familiar soup, 62.1 % is familiar with soft highly familiar with corned with meatballs, 56.8% is rice and fried 61.4% is with sauteed not fam[r] ...
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HEIGHTS OF 12-YEAR-OLD PUERTO RICAN BOYS IN NEW YORK CITY: ORIGINS OF DIFFERENCES
... The number of years spent in New York City schools was used as a measure of the number of years residence in the United States for the boys born in Puerto Rico. Clearly, these sam- pling[r] ...
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PROMESA AND THE BANKRUPTCY CLAUSE: A REMINDER ABOUT UNIFORMITY
... 2017, Puerto Rico and one affiliated entity filed a petition under this new ...the Puerto Rico Highway and Transportation Authority. Other Puerto Rican sub-entities are expected to ...the ...
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Disparities in health care utilization among Latino children suffering from asthma in California
... well. Puerto Rican children with asthma were 72% more likely to have at least one emergency department visit in the past year and 38% less likely to use nonurgent care in the past year, respectively, ...
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CULTIVATING COMIDA: What Maria Exposed to Us
... the Puerto Rican food system: María Elena Rodríguez, the founder and owner of Cosecha Caribe, a small business specializing in raw and fermented value- added, artisanal foods based in Carolina, ...
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