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2025

 
Dong, Z., Whitehead, J., Fu, M., MacIsaac, J. L., Rehkopf, D. H., Rosero-Bixby, L., Kobor, M S., Korthauer, K. (2025). Complete reference genome and pangenome improve genome-wide detection and interpretation of DNA methylation using sequencing and array data. Cell Reports, 44(6). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115755
Gan, D., Baylin, A., Peterson, K. E., Rosero-Bixby, L., Ruiz Narváez, E. A. (2025). Social connections, leukocyte telomere length, and all-cause mortality in older adults from Costa Rica : the Costa Rican longevity and healthy aging study. Journal of Aging and Health (CRELES). DOI: 10.1177/08982643251313923
Méndez Chacón, E. (2025). Association of perceived stress with risks of subsequent illness and death among elderly according to Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES). Aging & Mental Health, doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2025.2558887
Méndez Chacón, E. (2025). Construct validity of the self-report instrument of perceived stress in the general Costa Rican population of retirement age: CRELES study. Frontiers in public health, Volume 13. doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1568416
Rosero Bixby, L., Dow, W. (2025). A cohort study of seasonality and weather-sensitivity of chronic disease biomarkers in the tropics: the Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES). Wellcome Open Research, 10:634, doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.25186.1
Varela Rodríguez A., Barquero Uriarte, A., Santamaría Ulloa, C., Rosero Bisby, L. (2025. Sobrevida y mortalidad de pacientes con trasplante renal en Costa Rica 2019-2023. Acta Médica Costarricense. 67(2) abril-junio: 1-9. doi: 10.51481/amc.v67i2.1489

Weitzman, Abigail, Matthew Blanton, Gilbert Brenes Camacho (2025). Family separation among migrants in need of international protection : anticipation, duration, and agency. International Migration Review. 01979183251333762

2024

 
Carballo Murillo, N., Jiménez Fontana, P. (2024). Los trapos sucios se lavan en casa: satisfacción con la pareja en Uruguay. En: Investigaciones basadas en la Encuesta de Generaciones y Género Uruguay 2022.  Uruguay : Programa de Población (FCS, Udelar), Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, 97-111.
Rosero-Bixby, L. (2024). The COVID-19 pandemic and fertility decline in Costa Rica: A deep plunge in the first pandemic month, a decelerated decline, and a baby bust due to fleeing migrants. International Journal of Population Studies, 1310.  https://www.accscience.com/journal/IJPS/articles/online_first/1405

 

Rosero-Bixby, L., (2024) Socioeconomic inequalities in national transfers accounts in Ecuador 2006 and 2011: did a new socialist government make a difference? The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 27: 100483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2023.100483.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212828X23000439
Zhang, Y., Cortés-Ortiz, M. V., Baylin, A., Leung, C. W., Rosero-Bixby, L., & Ruiz-Narváez, E. A. (2024). Traditional rural dietary pattern and all-cause mortality in a prospective cohort study of elderly Costa Ricans: the Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES). The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2024.06.022
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Weitzman, Abigail, Jeffrey Swindle, Gilbert Brenes Camacho (2024). Gendered family violence among migrants seeking international protection : a life course perspective. Social Forces, 102(3): 1004-1025
Weitzman, Abigail, Matthew Blanton, Sophie Morse, Gilbert Brenes Camacho, María José Chaves Groh (2024). Design and implementation of an intensive panel survey with refugees and other migrations in need of protection in Costa Rica. Plos One. 19(3): e0301135.

2023

 
Nombre de la PublicaciónDocumento
Barboza Solis, C., Barahona Cubillo, J., Fantin, R. (2023). Health inequalities in the geographic distribution of dental practitioners in Costa Rica: an ecological study. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol.
Dec, E, Clement J, Cheng K, Church GM, Fossel MB, Rehkopf DH, Rosero-Bixby L et al. (2023): Centenarian clocks: epigenetic clocks for validating claims of exceptional longevity. Geroscience 45, no. 3 1817-1835. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-023-00731-7
Fantin, R., Barboza Solis, C., Hildesheim, A., Herrero R. (2023). Excess mortality from COVID 19 in Costa Rica: a registry based study using poisson regression. The Lancet Digital Health, vol. 20,
Rosero-Bixby, L. (2023). The vanishing advantage of longevity in Nicoya, Costa Rica: A cohort shift. Demographic Research, vol. 49, art. 27, DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2023.49.27.
Rosero-Bixby, L., (2023). La tasa de fecundidad de 1,3 hijos por mujer de 2021 y 2022 de cara al futuro ¿ultrabaja fecundidad o posposición de la maternidad? Implicaciones demográficas.  Programa Estado de la Nación (PEN), Repositorio Institucional CONARE,: San José, Costa Rica. https://repositorio.conare.ac.cr/handle/20.500.12337/8605
Santamaría Ulloa, C., Lehning, A. J., Cortés Ortiz, M., Méndez Chacón, E. (2023). Frailty as a predictor of mortality: a comparative cohort study of older adults in Costa Rica and the United States. BMC Public Health, Volumen 23, número 1960, DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-16900-4 
Weitzman, Abigail, Katarina Huss, Matthew Blanton, Jeffrey Swindle, Gilbert Brenes Camacho, Arodys Robles (2023). International displacement and family stress in Latin America. Journal of Family Issues. DOI: 0192513X231151291
Weitzman, Abigail, Matthew Blanton, Gilbert Brenes Camacho (2023). Variability in mental health reporting among refugees and migrants in need of protection : new evidence from a weekly panel survey. BMC Public Health. 23(1): 1-10

2022

 
Nombre de la PublicaciónDocumento
Cardenas, A., Ecker, S., Fadadu, R.P., Huen, K., Orozco, A., McEwen, L.M., Engelbrecht, H.R., Gladish, N., Kobor, M.S., Rosero-Bixby, L., Dow, W.H., and Rehkopf, D.H. (2022). Epigenome-Wide Association Study and Epigenetic Age Acceleration Associated with Cigarette Smoking among Costa Rican Adults. Scientific Reports 12, no.1: 4277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08160-w.  
Carrillo-Larco, R. M., Stern, D., Hambleton, I. R., Lotufo, P., Di Cesare, M., Hennis, A., ...Rosero-Bixby, L... & Velázquez-Cruz, R. (2022). Derivation, internal validation, and recalibration of a cardiovascular risk score for Latin America and the Caribbean (Globorisk-LAC): A pooled analysis of cohort studies. The Lancet Regional Health–Americas, 9.  https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(22)00075-8/fulltext
Chávez Galiendo, A. M., Pinto Cunha, J. M., Barquero, J., Macadar, D., Molina, W., Olivera, G. Rodríguez, J., Sobrino, J. (2022).Desconcentración concentrada y migración: una mirada desde grandes metrópolis de América Latina. RELAP, vol. 16. doi.org/10.31406/relap2022.v16.e202108
Méndez Chacón, E. (2022). Gender differences in perceived stress and its relationship to telomere length in Costa Rican adults. Frontiers in Psychology. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.712660
Rosero-Bixby L. (2022). The Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccines to Prevent Severe COVID-19 in Costa Rica: Nationwide, Ecological Study of Hospitalization Prevalence. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 8(5):e35054. DOI: 10.2196/35054. PMID: 35483079. https://publichealth.jmir.org/2022/5/e35054/.
Rosero-Bixby, L., & Miller, T. (2022). The mathematics of the reproduction number R for Covid-19: A primer for demographers.  Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 20(online first). https://www.austriaca.at/0xc1aa5576_0x003d1321.pdf
Une, C., Malespín-Bendaña, W., Ramírez-Mayorga, V., Rosero Bixby, L., & Sierra-Ramos, R. (2022). Helicobacter pylori infection and serum pepsinogen concentrations in an elderly population representative of Costa Rica. Población y Salud en Mesoamérica, 19(2). https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/psm/article/view/49405
Weitzman, Abigail, Gilbert Brenes Camacho, Arodys Robles, Jeffrey Swindle, Matthew Blanton, Katarina Huss (2022). Costa Rica as a destination for migrants in need of international protection : country report. International Migration Review. 57(1): 436-448

2021

 
Nombre de la PublicaciónDocumento
Carrillo-Larco, R. M., Stern, D., Hambleton, I. R., Hennis, A., Di Cesare, M., Lotufo, P., ...Rosero-Bixby, L & Velázquez-Cruz, R. (2021). Impact of common cardio-metabolic risk factors on fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular disease in Latin America and the Caribbean: an individual-level pooled analysis of 31 cohort studies. The Lancet Regional Health–Americas, 4.https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(21)00064-8/fulltext
Fantín, R., Brenes Camacho, G., Barboza Solís, C. (2021). Defunciones por COVID-19: distribución por edad y universidad de la cobertura médica en 22 países. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, No. 45. doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2021.42
Rosero-Bixby, L.,  Jiménez-Fontana, P. (2021). Crónica de la pandemia de Covid-19 en Costa Rica. En: Informe Estado de la Nación en Desarrollo Humano Sostenible 2021. Investigación base. San José, Programa Estado de la Nación (PEN). Repositorio Institucional CONARE:  https://repositorio.conare.ac.cr/handle/20.500.12337/8250
Ruiz-Narváez, E. A., Baylin, A., Azofeifa, J., Leal, A., Rosero-Bixby, L. (2021). Diet and leukocyte telomere length in a population with extendet longevity: the Costa Rican longevity and healthy aging study (CRELES). Nutrients, 13(8), 2585.
 

2020

 
Nombre de la PublicaciónDocumento
Centro Centroamericano de Población (CCP), Programa Institucional para la Persona Adulta y Adulta Mayor (PIAM), Consejo Nacional de la Persona Adulta Mayor (CONAPAM) (2020). II Informe del estado de situación de la persona adulta mayor en Costa Rica. San José,: Universidad de Costa Rica.
Chaves Groh, M. J. (2020). Incertidumbre ante los nuevos escenarios migratorios. Transformaciones recientes en la migración en tránsito en Costa Rica = The uncertainty of new migratory scenarios. Recent transformations in transit migration in Costa Rica. En: Si Somos Americanos. Revista de Estudios Transfronterizados, vol. 20(1), pp. 33-54.
Winkler, R., Matarrita Cascante, D. (2020). Exporting consumption: lifestyle migration and energy use. Global Environmental Change, Vol 61.
 

2019

 
Nombre de la PublicaciónDocumento
Brenes Camacho, G. (2019). El peso de los factores contextuales en la asistencia a la secundaria entre los adolescentes costarricenses según la información censal. Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos 34 (2): 395-425.
Jiménez Fontana, P. (2019). Gender gaps in Costa Rica: analysis of time use and labor income by education. En: Time use and Transfers in the Americas. pp. 77-96.
Rehkopf, D. H., Duong, A., Dow, W. H., Rosero-Bixby, L. (2019). Life-course BMI and biomarkes in persons aged 60 years or older: a comparison of the USA and Costa Rica. Public Health Nutrition. doi:10.1017/S1368980018002276
Rosero-Bixby, L., Jiménez Fontana, P. (2019). Ciclo económico vital y bonos demográficos en Costa Rica. Población y desarrollo, no. 127.
Rosero-Bixby, L., Santamaría-Ulloa, C. (2019). Estacionalidad de la mortalidad en los trópicos. El caso de Costa Rica, 1970-2016. Revista Latinoamericana de Población, 13(25). doi: http://doi.org/10.31406/relap2019.v13.i2.n25.6
Rosero-Bixby L., Rehkopf D.H., Dow W.H, Lin J., Epel ES, 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.
Rosero-Bixby, L.; Dow, W. H., Brenes Camacho, G. (2019). Costa Rican longevity and healthy aging study. En: Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer Cham.
 

2018

Nombre de la PublicaciónDocumento
Brenes Camacho, G. (2018). Descenso de la razón niño/mujer en unidades subnacionales en Latinoamérica: señales de convergencia. ¿Convergencia demográfica? Análisis comparativo de las tendencias demográficas subnacionales en América Latina y el Caribe. Río de Janeiro, Brasil: ALAP. Serie e-Investigaciones No. 5: 57-83
Brenes Camacho, G. (2018). Number of children in a household and child well-being. Revista Latinoamericana de Población, 12(22), 5-31.
Brenes Camacho, G. (2018). Retirement Decisions and Family Characteristics in Costa Rica. Revista Latinoamericana de Familia, 10(1), 31-50.
Chou Chen, S. W, Alvarado Barrantes, R. (2018). "Un Modelo jerárquico bayesiano espacio-temporal con variable de conteos: aplicación de VIH/SIDA en Costa Rica". Comunicaciones en Estadística, 11(1): 9-35.
Redondo, Nélida, Brenes Camacho, G., Agudelo Botero, M., Guidotti, C., Romero, D., Sandoval, M. H. (2018). La medición de la esperanza de vida libre de limitaciones cognitivas y la esperanza de vida con limitaciones cognitivas en América Latina. Notas de Población, 106, 11-36.
Rosero-Bixby, L. (2018). High life expectancy and reversed socioeconomic gradients of elderly people in Mexico and Costa Rica. Demographic Research 38 (article 3), 95-108. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.3.