 Puerto Rico
"Puerto Rico" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An island in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies. Its capital is San Juan. It is a self-governing commonwealth in union with the United States. It was discovered by Columbus in 1493 but no colonization was attempted until 1508. It belonged to Spain until ceded to the United States in 1898. It became a commonwealth with autonomy in internal affairs in 1952. Columbus named the island San Juan for St. John's Day, the Monday he arrived, and the bay Puerto Rico, rich harbor. The island became Puerto Rico officially in 1932. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p987 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p436)
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D011647
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Z01.107.084.900.750 Z01.639.880.750
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| 1993 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2008 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2009 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2010 | 0 | 15 | 15 | | 2011 | 0 | 11 | 11 | | 2012 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | 2013 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | 2014 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2015 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Puerto Rico" by people in Profiles.
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Mattei J, Mendez J, Falcon LM, Tucker KL. Perceptions and Motivations to Prevent Heart Disease among Puerto Ricans. Am J Health Behav. 2016 May; 40(3):322-31.
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Bigornia SJ, Lichtenstein AH, Harris WS, Tucker KL. Associations of erythrocyte fatty acid patterns with insulin resistance. Am J Clin Nutr. 2016 Mar; 103(3):902-9.
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Barcelona de Mendoza V, Harville E, Theall K, Buekens P, Chasan-Taber L. Acculturation and Intention to Breastfeed among a Population of Predominantly Puerto Rican Women. Birth. 2016 Mar; 43(1):78-85.
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Castro EM, Santiago LE, Jiménez JC, Dávila-Vargas D, Rosal MC. A Social-Ecological View of Barriers and Facilitators for HIV Treatment Adherence: Interviews with Puerto Rican HIV Patients. PLoS One. 2015; 10(9):e0125582.
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Philip D, Buch A, Moorthy D, Scott TM, Parnell LD, Lai CQ, Ordovás JM, Selhub J, Rosenberg IH, Tucker KL, Troen AM. Dihydrofolate reductase 19-bp deletion polymorphism modifies the association of folate status with memory in a cross-sectional multi-ethnic study of adults. Am J Clin Nutr. 2015 Nov; 102(5):1279-88.
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Niu J, Sahni S, Liao S, Tucker KL, Dawson-Hughes B, Gao X. Association between Sleep Duration, Insomnia Symptoms and Bone Mineral Density in Older Boston Puerto Rican Adults. PLoS One. 2015; 10(7):e0132342.
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Arévalo SP, Tucker KL, Falcón LM. Beyond cultural factors to understand immigrant mental health: Neighborhood ethnic density and the moderating role of pre-migration and post-migration factors. Soc Sci Med. 2015 Aug; 138:91-100.
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Sotos-Prieto M, Bhupathiraju SN, Falcón LM, Gao X, Tucker KL, Mattei J. A Healthy Lifestyle Score Is Associated with Cardiometabolic and Neuroendocrine Risk Factors among Puerto Rican Adults. J Nutr. 2015 Jul; 145(7):1531-40.
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Jiménez MP, Osypuk TL, Arevalo S, Tucker KL, Falcon LM. Neighborhood socioeconomic context and change in allostatic load among older Puerto Ricans: The Boston Puerto Rican health study. Health Place. 2015 May; 33:1-8.
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Palacios C, Trak MA, Betancourt J, Joshipura K, Tucker KL. Validation and reproducibility of a semi-quantitative FFQ as a measure of dietary intake in adults from Puerto Rico. Public Health Nutr. 2015 Oct; 18(14):2550-8.
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