ELIMINATING ARTIFICIAL TRANS FATTY ACIDS IN ARGENTINA: ESTIMATED EFFECTS ON THE BURDEN OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE AND COSTS

Eliminating artificial trans fatty acids in Argentina: estimated effects on the burden of coronary heart disease and costs

Abstract Objective To estimate the impact of Argentine policies to reduce trans fatty acids (TFA) on coronary heart disease (CHD), disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and associated health-care costs.Methods We estimated the baseline intake of TFA before 2004 to be 1.5% of total energy intake.We built a policy model including baseline intake of

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Organ-specific heterogeneity in tumor-infiltrating immune cells and cancer antigen expression in primary and autologous metastatic lung adenocarcinoma

Background Tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) and cancer antigen expression, key factors for the development of immunotherapies, are usually based on the data from primary tumors due to availability of tissue for analysis; data from metastatic sites and their concordance with primary tumor are lacking.Although of the same origin from primary tumo

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