"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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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2013 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2020 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Puerto Rico" by people in Profiles.
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Bills to Restrict Access to and Harm From Indoor Tanning Facilities in US State Legislatures, 1992?2023. Am J Public Health. 2025 Feb; 115(2):191-200.
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Disparities in Stage at Presentation Among Hispanic and Latinx Patients With Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer in the United States. JCO Oncol Pract. 2024 Apr; 20(4):525-537.
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Hispanic Ethnicity, Nativity and the Risk of Stillbirth. J Immigr Minor Health. 2022 Dec; 24(6):1379-1386.
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Effect of Coronavirus Disease-2019 on the Workload of Neonatologists. J Pediatr. 2022 Mar; 242:145-151.e1.
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Association of Neighborhood Deprivation With Epigenetic Aging Using 4 Clock Metrics. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 11 02; 3(11):e2024329.
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Broaching the Topic of HIV Self-testing with Potential Sexual Partners Among Men and Transgender Women Who Have Sex with Men in New York and Puerto Rico. AIDS Behav. 2020 Nov; 24(11):3033-3043.
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Transgender Women's Experiences Using a Home HIV-Testing Kit for Partner-Testing. AIDS Behav. 2020 Sep; 24(9):2732-2741.
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Then We Looked at His Results: Men Who Have Sex With Men from New York City and Puerto Rico Report Their Sexual Partner's Reactions to Receiving Reactive HIV Self-Test Results. AIDS Behav. 2020 Sep; 24(9):2597-2605.
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Few Aggressive or Violent Incidents are Associated with the Use of HIV Self-tests to Screen Sexual Partners Among Key Populations. AIDS Behav. 2020 Jul; 24(7):2220-2226.
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Use of Rapid HIV Self-Test to Screen Potential Sexual Partners: Results of the ISUM Study. AIDS Behav. 2020 Jun; 24(6):1929-1941.