Alvaro Muñoz

Biographic Data

ID5483642
NAMEAlvaro Muñoz
GIVEN NAMESAlvaro
FAMILY NAMEMuñoz
SIGNATUREMUÑOZ A
AFFILIATIONSJohns Hopkins University
ORCID0000-0002-4037-0490
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Time trends in the incidence of pelvic organ prolapse across the BRICS

    Open AccessYuting Xu, Shudong Xie et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The BRICS countries have made different progress in reducing the prevalence of POP. We fully recognize the diversity of internal environments in the BRICS countries and suggest an incremental approach to advancing POP prevention matters based on possible policy-driven human and financial resources in a given setting

  • Rapid infant weight gain and early childhood obesity in low-income Latinos and non-Latinos

    Open AccessSarah Polk, Rachel Johnson Thornton et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2016

    Objective To examine the growth of infants and toddlers in a population that is both under-represented in the literature and at high risk for childhood obesity. Design Weight and height measurements were extracted from all visits for a sample of 0–4-year-old, low-income, Latino and non-Latino patients of an urban, academic general paediatric practice. Early growth was characterized as change in weight-for-length Z -score (WLZ) from birth to 3 yea…

  • P1-12 Detecting differences between treatments in critical care trials using mixtures of parametric survival distributions

    William Checkley, R Brower et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011

    Background Traditional methods in survival analysis inadequately summarise the timing of outcomes in critical care trials because they accommodate only one clinical endpoint. We sought to develop an analytical approach to detect differences when there are two clinical endpoints where one may preclude the other. Methods We used a mixture of parametric survival distributions that belong to the three-parameter generalised γ family (generalised γ, γ,…

  • Bimodal virological response to antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection

    Xiuhong Li, Haitao Chu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2006References: 25

    Study objective: To assess whether HIV RNA levels (log 10 scale) in highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) treated population have a bimodal distribution, suggesting optimal or suboptimal response to HAART. Methods: The study population from two ongoing cohort studies comprised 564 men (4785 person visits) and 1173 women (8675 person visits) with known dates of HAART initiation and with HIV RNA measurements before and after initiation. Valu…

  • Using length of stay and inactive days in the hospital to assess appropriateness of utilisation in Barcelona, Spain

    J Alonso, Alvaro Muñoz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1996References: 8

    STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare the level of inappropriate utilisation of a teaching hospital in two different calendar years and to analyse the relationship between changes in appropriateness of utilisation and changes in average length of stay. DESIGN: Retrospective evaluation of the medical records of patients admitted to a hospital in two periods: 1988 and 1990. SETTING: Hospital Universitari del Mar, a teaching hospital with 440 beds located in …

  • Daily air pollution effects on children's respiratory symptoms and peak expiratory flow

    Sverre Vedal, Marc B Schenker et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1987Cited by: 6References: 13

    To identify acute respiratory health effects associated with air pollution due to coal combustion, a subgroup of elementary school-aged children was selected from a large cross-sectional study and followed daily for eight months. Children were selected to obtain three equal-sized groups: one without respiratory symptoms, one with symptoms of persistent wheeze, and one with cough or phlegm production but without persistent wheeze. Parents complete…