Universidad De Santander

Identification of high notification clusters of congenital heart disease in Colombia (2016–2020): a spatial epidemiology and machine learning approach

Congenital heart diseases (CHD) are the most common congenital anomalies and a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in neonates and children. In Colombia, geographic variation in their notification reflects not only the true distribution of the disease, but also differences i...

Peer Financial Learning and Perceived Household Financial Management in High-Informality Contexts: A Covariate-Adjusted Mediation Analysis in the Piura Region, Peru

In economies where informal employment predominates, households acquire much of their money-management repertoire by observing neighbours and relatives rather than through formal instruction. This study examined whether such peer financial learning is associated with perceived ho...

Patterns of severe acute respiratory infections in children under five years old in Colombia: an ecological study

Abstract Background Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) remains a significant burden on global health, particularly affecting children under five years old, primarily caused by viral pathogens, yet clinical data on viral etiology and outcomes in Latin America are scarce. This stud...

Inflammatory Signatures from the Complete Blood Count and In-Hospital Mortality in Acute Myocardial Infarction

Background/Objectives: Early risk stratification in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) requires accessible and cost-effective tools. Complete blood count-derived inflammatory indices may provide readily available markers of immunothrombotic activity. The objective of this study wa...

The Myokine Landscape: Sources, Signaling, and Context-Dependent Actions

In addition to its contractile role, skeletal muscle has important secretory functions and communicates with local and distant tissues through myokines, a heterogeneous group of cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, peptides, and extracellular-matrix-associated proteins released...

Overall and serotype-specific dengue virus transmission intensity in Mexico, 2016–2023: A modelling study of case-notification data

Background Mexico, and the Americas region more widely, have experienced increased dengue incidence in recent years, and there are concerns that the changing climate may enhance dengue virus (DENV) transmission in the future. Whilst previous studies have characterised spatial het...