Vol. 41 No. 1 (2022): March | Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal

Editorial

Alan Preston

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Does A1c Pass the Transparency Test in Understandability as a Biomarker of Diabetes?

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Full-Length Articles

María I. García-Parra, Matilde Jiménez-Coello, Bertha A. Carrillo-Ávila, Ivonne Hernández-Cortázar, Georgina Chávez-Cortez, Victor M. Martínez-Aguilar

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Quantification of Osteoprotegerin Plasma Levels in Patients with Periodontitis

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Orlando G. González-Martínez, Jan Ortiz, Sebastián Quiñones, Jonathan G. Alicea, Francisco Guevara, Alejandro Pérez, Mariella Pappaterra, Guillermo A. Requejo-Figueroa, Claudia Amaral, Erick Rivera-Grana, Victor M. Villegas, Cesar Quiñones, Andrés Emanuelli, Armando L. Oliver

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Characteristics Upon Presentation of Patients with Type 2 Macular Telangiectasia in Puerto Rico

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Iraida Salabarría-Peña, Katia L. Mercado-Castro, Katiuska N. Báez-López, Keydi N. Betancourt-González, Maria Del C. Ojeda-Vilá, Krystel M. Ruiz-Serrano

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Knowledge of and Attitudes toward End-of-life Care among Senior Medical Students at a Medical School in Puerto Rico

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Víctor P. Díaz-Narváez, Aracelis Calzadilla-Núñez, Alejandro Reyes-Reyes, María G. Silva-Vetri, Pilar Torres-Martínez, Eugenia S. González-Díaz, Luz M. Alonso-Palacio, Jorge Luis Bilbao-Ramírez, Nuvia Estrada-Méndez, Dilia Esther Aparicio, Elizabeth Fajardo-Ramos, Juan Carlos Ferrero-Otero, Douglas Barrera-Gil, Ana Liliana Ríos-García

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Psychometry and Cut-off Points of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy in Medical Students in Central America and the Caribbean

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