CRELES Publications

Scientific Publications

2023

Aguilar-Fernández E, Carballo-Alfaro AM. Factores asociados a la satisfacción con la vida en personas adultas mayores de Costa Rica. Factors associated with life satisfaction in Costa Rican residents aged 60 and over Población y Salud en Mesoamérica. 2023.

Aguilar-Fernández E, Rojas XF. The Use of the Arm Circumference as a Measure to Detect Underweight in Individuals Aged 60 Years or Older Living in Costa Rica. Uniciencia. 2023;37(1):1-12.

Dec E, Clement J, Cheng K, et al. Centenarian clocks: epigenetic clocks for validating claims of exceptional longevity. GeroScience. 2023:1-19.

Lam A, Keenan K, Cézard G, Kulu H, Myrskylä M. Inequalities in disability-free and disabling multimorbid life expectancy in Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; 2023.

Santamaría-Ulloa C, Lehning AJ, Cortés-Ortiz MV, Méndez-Chacón E. Frailty as a predictor of mortality: A comparative cohort study of older adults in Costa Rica and the United States. BMC Public Health. 2023. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-16900-4

Santamaria-Garcia H, Sainz-Ballesteros A, Hernandez H, et al. Factors associated with healthy aging in Latin American populations. Nature Medicine. 2023:1-11.

Sato K, Noguchi H, Inoue K, Kawachi I, Kondo N. Retirement and cardiovascular disease: a longitudinal study in 35 countries. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2023; 52(4):1047-1059.

Sato K, Noguchi H. Impact of Retirement on Health: Evidence from 35 Countries. WINPEC Working Paper Series No.E2301, Available at SSRN 4413645. 2023.

Vazquez-Castillo P. Better alone? The impact of living arrangements on mortality of Costa Rican older adults. Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População. 2023;40:e0236.

Yu S, Baylin A, Ruiz-Narváez EA. Micro-and Macronutrient Intake in Elderly Costa Ricans: The Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES). Nutrients. 2023;15(6):1446.

2022

Aguilar-Fernández E, Alfaro AMC. Factores asociados con discapacidad en actividades básicas e instrumentales de la vida diaria en residentes de Costa Rica de 60 años y más. UNED Research Journal. 2022;14(1):e3838-e3838.

Cardenas A, Ecker S, Fadadu RP, et al. Epigenome-wide association study and epigenetic age acceleration associated with cigarette smoking among Costa Rican adults. Scientific reports. 2022;12(1):4277.

Frank P, Jokela M, Batty GD, Lassale C, Steptoe A, Kivimäki M. Overweight, obesity, and individual symptoms of depression: A multicohort study with replication in UK Biobank. Brain, behavior, and immunity. 2022;105:192-200.

Garrouste C, Perdrix E. Is there a consensus on the health consequences of retirement? A literature review. Journal of Economic Surveys. 2022;36(4):841-879.

Méndez-Chacón E, Marin-Baratta C. Sulfated dehydroepiandrosterone profile in Costa Rican older adults. Acta Médica Costarricense. 2022;64(4):28-36.

Méndez-Chacón E. Gender differences in perceived stress and its relationship to telomere length in Costa Rican adults. Frontiers in Psychology. 2022;13:712660.

Molina-Castro G, Matarrita-Muñoz S, Molina-Castro SE, Méndez-Chacón E, Une C, Ramírez-Mayorga V. Exploratory multigroup structural equation modeling approach to analyzing H. pylori infection, serological pepsinogen levels, and life style factors in an elderly population in Costa Rica. Población y Salud en Mesoamérica. 2022; 19(2)

Santamaría-Ulloa C, Chinnock A, Montero-López M. Association between obesity and mortality in the Costa Rican elderly: a cohort study. BMC Public Health. 2022;22(1):1007.

Solano HMC, Camacho GB, Aguilar JCV, Jiménez MFA. El entorno socioambiental de las redes sociales de apoyo de personas longevas en la Península de Nicoya, Costa Rica, desde la perspectiva del modelo básico de capacidades. Anales en Gerontología. 2022;14(1.

Une C, Malespín Bendaña W, Ramírez-Mayorga V, Rosero-Bixby L, Sierra Ramos R. Helicobacter pylori infection and serum pepsinogen concentrations in an elderly population representative of Costa Rica. Población y Salud en Mesoamérica. 2022;19(2):619-634.

Wang D, Dai X, Mishra SR, et al. Association between socioeconomic status and health behaviour change before and after non-communicable disease diagnoses: a multicohort study. The Lancet Public Health. 2022;7(8):e670-e682.

2021

Aguilar-Fernández E, Carballo Alfaro AM. Waist circumference as a predictor of cardiovascular disease risk factors in Costa Rican residents aged 60 years and over. UNED Research Journal/Cuadernos de Investigación UNED. 2021;13(1):170-184.

Aguilar-Fernández E, Carballo-Alfaro AM. Factores asociados a la salud autoevaluada en personas costarricenses: resultados para la cohorte de jubilación de CRELES. Población y Salud en Mesoamérica. 2021;19(1):61-77.

Aguilar-Fernández E, Carballo-Alfaro AM. Factors associated with self-rated health in Costa Ricans: results for the CRELES retirement cohort. Población y Salud en Mesoamérica. 2021;19(1):48-66.

Arias Núñez GE. Predicción de mortalidad en adultos mayores en Costa Rica: evaluación de precisión del modelo de Lee. Tesis Postgrado de Especialidades Médicas. Universidad de Costa Rica. 2021.

Barrientos-Calvo I, Picado-Ovares E. Prevalence of sarcopenia in the elderly population in Costa Rica. Acta Médica Costarricense. 2021;63(2):122-130.

Bernal MC, Martínez-Ballesté A, Solanas A. A Review of Data Sources for the Study of Ageing. IEEE; 2021:1843-1848.

Carrillo-Larco RM, Castillo-Cara M, Anza-Ramirez C, Bernabé-Ortiz A. Clusters of people with type 2 diabetes in the general population: unsupervised machine learning approach using national surveys in Latin America and the Caribbean. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care 2021;9:e001889.

De Looze C, Feeney J, Kenny RA. The CANDID Initiative: Leveraging Cognitive Ageing Dementia Data from Around the World. A GBHI-HRS/TILDA Collaboration. Cognitive Data Comparability Guide. The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin; 202

Dieci M, Llibre-Rodriguez JJ, Acosta D, Dow WH. Cuba’s cardiovascular risk factors: International comparison of levels and education gradients. PLoS One. 2021;16(3):e0247831.

Frank P, Jokela M, Batty GD, Cadar D, Steptoe A, Kivimäki M. Association between systemic inflammation and individual symptoms of depression: a pooled analysis of 15 population-based cohort studies. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2021;178(12):1107-1118.

Gladish N. Associations of DNA methylation with adversity throughout the life course. PhD Dissertation. University of British Columbia (Vancouver); 2021.

Kobayashi LC, Gross AL, Gibbons LE, et al. You say tomato, I say radish: can brief cognitive assessments in the US Health Retirement Study be harmonized with its International Partner Studies? The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. 2021;76(9):1767-1776.

Méndez Chacón E. Evaluación psicométrica de la escala de depresión de Yesavage en adultos mayores latinoamericanos: Estudios SABE y CRELES. Interdisciplinaria. 2021; 38(2):103-115.

Novak B. Chapter 6. Obesity and mortality over the life course: Evidence from Costa Rica. Población y envejecimiento: Pasado, presente y futuro en la investigación sociodemográfica. Verónica Montes de Oca Zavala and Isalia Nava Bolaños Editors. UNAM, México

Rueda-Salazar S, Spijker J, Devolder D, Albala C. The contribution of social participation to differences in life expectancy and healthy years among the older population: A comparison between Chile, Costa Rica and Spain. PLoS One. 2021;16(3):e0248179.

Ruiz-Narváez EA, Baylin A, Azofeifa J, Leal A, Rosero-Bixby L. Diet and leukocyte telomere length in a population with extended longevity: the costa rican longevity and healthy aging study (CRELES). Nutrients. 2021;13(8):2585.

2020

Aguilar-Fernández E, Carballo Alfaro AM. Correlación entre factores de riesgo de enfermedad cardiovascular en 1084 parejas de cónyuges costarricenses. El Proyecto CRELES-RC. Cuadernos de Investigación UNED. 2020;12(2):496-506.

Aguilar-Fernández E, Alfaro AMC. Proteína C reactiva, síndrome metabólico y riesgo cardiovascular en la población costarricense nacida entre 1945 y 1955. UNED Research Journal. 2020;12(1):e2662-e2662.

Santamaría-Ulloa C, Montero-López M. Projected impact of diabetes on the Costa Rican healthcare system. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2020;19(1):1-14.

Sudharsanan, N., Y. Zhang, C. Payne, W. Dow, E. Crimmins. “Education and Adult Mortality in Middle-Income Countries: Surprising Gradients in Six Nationally-Representative Longitudinal Surveys.” SSM - Population Health volume 12, 100649, December 2020. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235282732030286X

Villalobos G, Villalobos L. PIH65 predictive mortality indexes across populations. Value in Health. 2020;23:S164.

2019

Santamaría-Ulloa, Carolina, Melina Montero-López, and Luis Rosero-Bixby. Diabetes epidemics: inequalities increase the burden on the healthcare system. Health policy and planning 34.Supplement_2 (2019): ii45-ii55.

Picado-Ovares, José E., et al. Adverse outcomes of frailty in the older population of Costa Rica. Acta Médica Costarricense 61.4 (2019): 166-171.

Santamaría-Ulloa, Carolina, and Cindy Valverde-Manzanares. Inequality in the incidence of cervical cancer: Costa Rica 1980–2010. Frontiers in Oncology 8 (2019): 664.

Alfaro-Salas KI, Espinoza-Sequeira W, Alfaro-Vindas C, Calvo-Ureña A. Patrón de marcha normal en adultos mayores costarricenses. Acta Médica Costarricense. 2019;61(3):104-110.

Campos Salazar C, Chacón Araya Y, Solano Mora L, Brenes Camacho G, Moncada Jiménez J. Normative values for anthropometric, adiposity, and handgrip strength in Costa Rican adults aged 60 to 110 years old. Revista Costarricense de Salud Pública. 2019;28(2):

Gross AL, Kueider-Paisley AM, Sullivan C, Schretlen D, Initiative INND. Comparison of approaches for equating different versions of the mini-mental state examination administered in 22 studies. American journal of epidemiology. 2019;188(12):2202-2212.

Verdery AM, Margolis R, Zhou Z, Chai X, Rittirong J. Kinlessness around the world. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. 2019;74(8):1394-1405.

Zúñiga Solano R, Bolaños Sánchez M. Prevalencia y sobrevida en el envejecimiento exitoso, según el modelo de Rowe y Khan (Mac Arthur Research Network in successful aging) y el modelo de Young, en la cohorte del estudio Costa Rica estudio de longevidad y envejecimiento saludable. Tesis Posgrado en Geriatría y Gerontología. Universidad de Costa Rica. 2019.

Rosero-Bixby, L., Rehkopf, D. H., Dow, W. H., Lin, J., Epel, E. S., Azofeifa, J., & Leal, A. (2019). Correlates of longitudinal leukocyte telomere length in the Costa Rican Longevity Study of Healthy Aging (CRELES): On the importance of DNA collection and storage procedures. PLoS ONE 14(10): e0223766.

Rehkopf, D. H., Duong, A., Dow, W. H., & Rosero-Bixby, L. (2019). Life Course Body Mass Index and Biomarkers in Persons 60 and Older: a Comparison of the United States and Costa Rica. Public health nutrition, 22(2), 314.

Rosero-Bixby, L.; Dow, W. H. & Brenes, G. (2019) Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study. En: Gu D., Dupre M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer Cham. Ebook.

Glei, D. A., Goldman, N., Ryff, C. D., & Weinstein, M. (2019). Physical function in US older adults compared with other populations: A multinational study. Journal of aging and health, 31(7), 1067-1084.

Gross, A. L., Kueider-Paisley, A. M., Sullivan, C., & Schretlen, D. (2019). Comparison of Approaches for Equating Different Versions of the MMSE Administered in 22 Studies. American journal of epidemiology, , kwz228, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwz228.

Kaiser, M. (2019). Benford's Law As An Indicator Of Survey Reliability—Can We Trust Our Data?. Journal of Economic Surveys. Vol. 00, No. 0, pp. 1–17.

Bordaa, M. G., Patino-Hernandezb, D., Cano-Gutiérrezb, C. A., Celis-Preciadoe, C. A., & Pérez-Zepedab, M. U. (2019). Sarcopenia, lung disease and mortality: a secondary analysis of the CRELES study. Geriatr., Gerontol. Aging (Impr.), 13(1), 36-38.

Barboza_Solís, C., Porras_Chaverri, M., & Fantin, R. (2019). Is tooth loss important when evaluating perceived general health? Findings from a nationally representative study of Costa Rican adults. Community dentistry and oral epidemiology.

Gutiérrez-Robledo, L. M., García-Chanes, R. E., & Pérez-Zepeda, M. U. (2019). Allostatic Load as a Biological Substrate to Intrinsic Capacity: A Secondary Analysis of Creles. The journal of nutrition, health & aging, 1-8.

2018

Azofeifa, J., Ruiz_Narváez, E. A., Leal, A., Gerlovin, H., & Rosero_Bixby, L. (2018). Amerindian ancestry and extended longevity in Nicoya, Costa Rica. American Journal of Human Biology, 30(1), e23055.

Brenes-Camacho, G. (2018). Retirement decisions and family characteristics in Costa Rica. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de Familia, 10(1), 31-50.

Rosero-Bixby, L. (2018). High life expectancy and reversed socioeconomic gradients of elderly people in Mexico and Costa Rica. Demographic research, 38(3), 95-108.

Patel, P. C., & Devaraj, S. (2018). Height–income association in developing countries: Evidence from 14 countries. American Journal of Human Biology, 30(3), e23093.

Ovares, J. E. P., Calvo, I. C. B., Martínez, F. M., & Jirón, A. S. (2018). Frailty in the elderly population of Costa Rica. Japan Journal of Medicine. Jpn J Med, 1(5): 233 - 237 . doi: 10.31488/jjm.1000122.

Santamaría-Ulloa, C., & Valverde-Manzanares, C. (2018). Inequality in the Incidence of Cervical Cancer: Costa Rica 1980–2010. Frontiers in oncology, 8.

Glei, D. A., Goldman, N., & Weinstein, M. (2018). The Educational Gradient in Physiological Dysregulation: A Cross-Country. The Oxford Handbook of Integrative Health Science, 479.

Chanti-Ketterl, M., Gamaldo, A., Andel, R., & Thorpe Jr, R. J. (2018). The association between lipoproteins, disability, and physical function among older Costa Rican adults. Journal of aging and health, 30(5), 758-777.

Novak, B., & Lozano-Keymolen, D. (2018). Childhood disadvantages and the timing of the onset of natural menopause in Latin America and the Caribbean. Journal of women & aging, 30(4), 280-298.

Stringhini, S., Carmeli, C., Jokela, M., Avendaño, M., McCrory, C., d’Errico, A., ... & Delpierre, C. (2018). Socioeconomic status, non-communicable disease risk factors, and walking speed in older adults: multi-cohort population based study. bmj, 360, k1.

Fantin, R., Delpierre, C., Kelly_Irving, M., & Barboza Solís, C. (2018). Early socioeconomic conditions and severe tooth loss in middle_aged Costa Ricans. Community dentistry and oral epidemiology, 46(2), 178-184.

Sudharsanan, N., & Bloom, D. E. (2018). The demography of aging in low-and middle-income countries: chronological versus functional perspectives. In Future directions for the demography of aging: proceedings of a workshop, E-Book, The National Academies Press, Washington, DC, available at https://www. nap. edu/read/25064.

2017

McEwen, L.M., Morin, A.M., Edgar, R.D., MacIsaac, J.L., Jones, M.J., Dow, W.H., Rosero-Bixby, L., Kobor, M.S. and Rehkopf, D.H. (2017). Differential DNA methylation and lymphocyte proportions in a Costa Rican high longevity region. Epigenetics & Chromatin 10(1), 21. DOI: 10.1186/s13072-017-0128-2.

Payne, C., Chiu, C., Rosero-Bixby, L., Saito, Y., & Dow, W. H. (2017). Disability-Free Life Expectancy Among Older Adults In High Longevity Populations. Innovation in Aging, 1(Suppl 1), 1020.

Gertner, A. K., Domino, M. E., & Dow, W. H. (2017). Risk factors for late-life depression and correlates of antidepressant use in Costa Rica: Results from a nationally-representative longitudinal survey of older adults. Journal of affective disorders, 208

Yatsuya, H., Matsunaga, M., Li, Y., & Ota, A. (2017). Risk factor of cardiovascular disease among older individuals. Journal of atherosclerosis and thrombosis, 24(3), 258-261.

Glei, D. A., Goldman, N., Ryff, C. D., & Weinstein, M. (2017). Can we determine whether physical limitations are more prevalent in the US than in countries with comparable life expectancy?. SSM-population health, 3, 808-813.

Ramirez-Ulate, X., & Bolaños-Sanchez, M. (2017). Identification Of Factors That Influence Independence Of Costa Rican Nonagenarians And Centennials. Innovation in aging, 1(Suppl 1), 357.

Barboza C., Fantin R., (2017). The Role of Socioeconomic Position in Determining Tooth Loss in Elderly Costa Rican: Findings from the CRELES Cohort.-Int. J. Dental Sc., 19-3 (September-December): 79-94.

Celis Preciado, C. A., Borda, M., Patino-Hernandez, D., Cano, C., & Perez-Cepeda, M. (2017). Frailty And COPD Are Better Predictors Of Mortality Rather Than Each Entity Alone: A Secondary Analysis of the CRELES Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 195: A2728.

2016

Rosero-Bixby, L., & Dow, W. H. (2016). Exploring why Costa Rica outperforms the United States in life expectancy: A tale of two inequality gradients. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(5), 1130.

Rehkopf, D. H., Rosero-Bixby, L., & Dow, W. H. (2016). A cross-national comparison of 12 biomarkers finds no universal biomarkers of aging among individuals aged 60 and older. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 14, 255-277.

Rosero-Bixby, L., Coto-Yglesias, F., & Dow, W. H. (2016). Pulse blood pressure and cardiovascular mortality in a population-based cohort of elderly Costa Ricans. Journal of human hypertension, 30(9), 555.

Glei, D. A., Goldman, N., Risques, R. A., Rehkopf, D. H., Dow, W. H., Rosero-Bixby, L., & Weinstein, M. (2016). Predicting survival from telomere length versus conventional predictors: a multinational population-based cohort study. PLoS one, 11(4), e01524

Harhay, M. N., Harhay, M. O., Coto_Yglesias, F., & Rosero Bixby, L. (2016). Altitude and regional gradients in chronic kidney disease prevalence in Costa Rica: Data from the Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study. Tropical Medicine & International

Yang, F., Qian, D., & Hu, D. (2016). Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in the older population: results from the multiple national studies on ageing. Journal of the American Society of Hypertension, 10(2), 140-148.

Andrade, F. C. D. (2016). Misreported diabetes: estimating the'real'burden of diabetes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Anais, 1-21.

Pérez-Zepeda, M. U., Cesari, M., & García-Peña, C. (2016). Predictive value of frailty indices for adverse outcomes in older adults. Revista de investigación clínica, 68(2), 92-98.

Villalobos-Cambronero, X., Kulzer-Homann, K., & Fernández-Rojas, X. (2016). Relación entre funcionalidad y caídas en la población adulta mayor del “Proyecto Costa Rica, Estudio Longitudinal de envejecimiento saludable”. Revista Hispanoamericana de Ciencia.

Goldman, N., Glei, D. A., & Weinstein, M. (2016). What matters most for predicting survival? A multinational population-based cohort study. PLoS One, 11(7), e0159273.

Rehkopf, D. H., Dow, W. H., Rosero-Bixby, L., Lin, J., Epel, E. S., & Blackburn, E. H. (2013). Longer leukocyte telomere length in Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula: A population-based study.Experimental Gerontology 48(11): 1266-1273. PMID: 23988653. DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2013.08.005 Brenes-

Camacho, G. (2013). Factores socioeconómicos asociados a la percepción de situación socioeconómica entre adultos mayores de dos países latinoamericanos. Revista de Ciencias Económicas, 31(1).

Aguilar Fernández, E., & Alfaro, A. M. C. (2012). Prevalencia de Hipercolesterolemia en adultos mayores de Costa Rica. Población y salud en Mesoamérica, 9(2), 1-10.

Brenes-Camacho Gilbert (2012). Analisis de secuencias en el estudio del envejecimiento;. En: Redondo N y Garay S (coord.) “El envejecimiento en América Latina: evidencia empírica y cuestiones metodológicas”.ALAP: Serie Investigaciones No. 13 Pp.171-189

Miranda, J. J.; Herrera, V. M.; Chirinos, J. A.; Gómez, L. F.; Perel, P.; Pichardo, R.; González, A.; Sánchez, J. R.; Ferreccio, C.; Aguilera, X.; Silva, E.; Oróstegui, M.; Medina, J.; Pérez, C. M.; Suárez, E.; Ortiz, A. P.; Rosero, L.; Schapochnik, N.; Ortiz, Z.; Ferrante, D.; Casas, J. P.; Bautista, L. E. (2013). Major Cardiovascular risk factors in Latin America: A comparison with the United States. The Latin American Consortium of Studies in Obesity (LASO). PLOS ONE 8(1): e54056

2012

Rosero-Bixby, L. & Dow, W. H. (2012) Predicting mortality with biomarkers: a population-based prospective cohort study for elderly Costa Ricans. Population Health Metrics 10(1):11. PMID: 22694922.

Modrek, S.; Dow, W.; Rosero-Bixby, L. (2012) Long-Term Association Of Economic Inequality And Mortality In Adult Costa Ricans, Social Science & Medicine 74(2012): 158-166, doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.10.034

2011

Brenes-Camacho,G. (2011). "Favourable changes in economic well-being and self-rated health among the elderly". Social Science & Medicine 72(8):1228-1235.

2010

Goldman, N.; Turra, C.; Rosero-Bixby, L. ; Weir, D.; Crimmins, E. (2010) Do biological measures mediate the relationship between education and health: Acomparative study, Social Science & Medicine 72(2011): 307-315, doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.11.004

Gersten, O.; Dow, W.; Rosero-Bixby, L. (2010). Stressors over the life course and neuroendocrine system dysregulation in Costa Rica. Journal of Aging and Health, 28 de mayo. DOI: 10.1177/0898264310367516.

Rehkopf D, Dow WH, Rosero-Bixby L. (2010). Differences in the association of cardiovascular risk factors with education: a comparison of Costa Rica (CRELES) and the United States (NHANES). J Epidemiol Community Health, 64(9):821-8.

2009

Brenes-Camacho, G. & Rosero-Bixby, L. (2009) Differentials by Socioeconomic Status and Institutional Characteristics in Preventive Service Utilization by Older Persons in Costa Rica. Journal of Aging and Health 21 (5): 730-758. DOI: 10.1177/0898264309338299

Rosero-Bixby, L. & Dow, W. H. (2009) Surprising SES gradients in mortality, health and biomarkers in a Latin American population of adults. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 101093/geronb/gbn04.

Rosero-Bixby L.; Brenes-Camacho G.; Mendez-Chacon E. (2009)."Obesidad, envejecimiento y mortalidad en Costa Rica" En: Pelaez E. (coord.). Sociedad y Adulto Mayor en America Latina. Estudios sobre Envejecimiento en la Region, Pp. 117-138. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: ALAP Editor, UNFPA, 1a. Ed.

Herrera, V. M.; Casas, J. P.; Miranda, J. J.; Perel, P.; Pichardo, R.; Gonzalez, A.; Sanchez, J. R.; Ferreccio, C.; Aguilera, X.; Silva, E.; Orostegui, M.; Gomez, L. F.; Chirinos, J. A.; Medina, J.; Perez, C. M.; Suarez, E.; Ortiz, A. P.; Rosero-Bixby, L.; Schapochnik, N.; Ortiz, Z.; Ferrante, D.; Diaz, M.; Bautista, L. E. (2009). Interethnic differences in the accuracy of anthropometric indicators of obesity in screening for high risk of coronary heart disease. International Journal of Obesity, 33 (5): 568-576.

Bautista, L. E.; Casas, J. P.; Herrera, V. M.; Miranda, J. J.; Perel, P.; Pichardo, R.; Gonzalez, A.; Sanchez, J. R.; Ferreccio, C.; Aguilera, X.; Silva, E.; Orostegui, M.; Gomez, L. F.; Chirinos, J. A.; Medina, J.; Perez, C. M.; Suarez, E.; Ortiz, A. P.; Rosero-Bixby, L.; Schapochnik, N.; Ortiz, Z.; Ferrante, D. (2009). The Latin American consortium of studies in obesity (LASO). Obesity Reviews, 10 (3):364-370.