"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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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.107.084.900.750 Z01.639.880.750
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| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Puerto Rico" by people in Profiles.
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Childhood Adversity and Pubertal Development Among Puerto Rican Boys and Girls. Psychosom Med. 2020 06; 82(5):487-494.
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Prevalence and Correlates of CKD in Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Oct 07; 10(10):1757-66.
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Invasive cancer incidence - Puerto Rico, 2007-2011. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015 Apr 17; 64(14):389-93.
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Behavioral and clinical characteristics of persons receiving medical care for HIV infection - Medical Monitoring Project, United States, 2009. MMWR Suppl. 2014 Jun 20; 63(5):1-22.
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The risk of developing invasive breast cancer in Hispanic women : a look across Hispanic subgroups. Cancer. 2013 Apr 01; 119(7):1373-80.
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The internal consistency and concurrent validity of a Spanish translation of the Child Behavior Checklist. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1990 Aug; 18(4):393-406.