All original articles appearing in MEDICC Review are subject to double-blind international peer review. MEDICC Review is indebted to the following colleagues for their collaboration as peer reviewers in 2018:

María del Carmen Alemán-Lage MD MS, Cuba
Miguel M. Almaguer López MD MS, Cuba
Ana Luisa Alonso Mariño MD MS, Cuba
Patricia Alonso Galbán MD MS, Cuba
María Esther Álvarez Lauzurica MD PhD, Cuba
María José Álvarez Pasquín MD, Spain
Jon Andrus MD, USA
Raúl Araujo Ríos MD, Bolivia
José A. Arronte Villamarín MD, Cuba
Julio A. Baisre Hernández PhD, Cuba
José A. Betancourt Bethencourt DVM, Cuba
Madeline Blanco de Armas PhD, Cuba
James R. Boex PhD MBA, USA
Carlos N. Bouza Herrera PhD, Cuba
Ofelia Bravo Fernández MS, Cuba
Emilio Buchaca Faxas MD PhD, Cuba
Georgina Bustamante PhD, USA
Leticia Bustamante Alfonso MD PhD, Cuba
Raúl Calderín Bouza MD, Cuba
Byron Calgua de León PhD, Guatemala
Carlos Campillo Artero MD MPH PhD, Spain
Francisco Carballés García MD MS PhD, Cuba
Obllurys Cárdenas López MS PhD, Cuba
Alfonso Casado Collado PhD, Spain
Héctor Casaña Mata MD, USA
Ignacio A. Casarini MD, Argentina
Marta Castro Peraza MD MS PhD, Cuba
Manuel Cerdas Calderón MD, Costa Rica
Arturo Chang Monteagudo MD MS, Cuba
Ana Elena Chévez MD, USA
Rodolfo Claro Madruga PhD, Cuba
Lydia de Isaacs MD, Panama
Adrián Díaz MD, Ecuador
Arquímides L. Díaz Batista MD PhD, Cuba
María Elena Díaz Sánchez PhD, Cuba
Alfredo Dueñas Herrera MD, Cuba
Fernando Domínguez Dieppa MD FAAP PhD, Cuba
Paul C. Erwin MD MPH, USA
Alfredo D. Espinosa Brito MD PhD DrSc, Cuba
Oscar Feo Istúriz MD, Venezuela
Marlene Ferrer Arrocha MD MS PhD, Cuba
Tomás J. Fontalvo Herrera MD PhD, Colombia
Francisco Gadaleta MD PhD, Argentina
Eberto García Silvera MD MPH, Cuba
Guillermo García García MD, Mexico
Lowell Gerson PhD, USA
Enrique Giménez Hurtado PhD, Cuba
Manuel Augusto González González MD MS, Ecuador
Silvia B. Gorban de Lapertosa MD, Argentina
Rocío Guede Cid PhD, Spain
Thomas R. Hedges III MD, USA
Carlos Enrique Hernández Avila MD, El Salvador
Iyamira Hernández Pita PhD, Cuba
Javier Antonio Herrera Toscano MS PhD, Cuba
Raúl Herrera Valdés MD PhD DrSc, Cuba
Saroj Jayasinghe MBBS MD FRCP, Sri Lanka
Sergio Jorge Pastrana, Cuba
C. William Keck MD MPH FACPM, USA
Juan de Jesús Llibre Rodríguez MD PhD DrSc, Cuba
Liuber Y. Machado Zaldívar MS PhD, Cuba
José Jesús Martín Martín PhD, Spain
Antigona Martínez Quintero PhD, USA
Evelyn Martínez Cruz MD MS, Cuba
José Luis Martín Romero PhD, Cuba
Pedro Más Bermejo MD PhD DrSc, Cuba
Alberto Morales Salinas MD MPH FACC, Cuba
Estela Morales Peralta MD PhD, Cuba
Luis Rafael Moscote Salazar MD, Colombia
Aníbal Muñoz Loaiza PhD, Colombia
Karem Nieto Martínez MS, Mexico
Porfirio Nordet MD MS PhD, Switzerland
Jorge Núñez Jover PhD, Cuba
Joan O’Connell MHSc PhD, USA
Chijioke Okoli MS MPH, Nigeria
Alina J. Ortega Bravo MS PhD, Cuba
Paulo L. Ortiz Bultó PhD, Cuba
Liset Padilla Ledesma MD MS, Cuba
Nuria Pajuelo Díaz MS, Spain
Björg Palsdottir MPA, USA
Amalia Peix MD PhD DrSc, Cuba
Manuel Peña Escobar MD PhD, USA
Yamilé Peña Quián MD PhD, Cuba
Ricardo Pereda González MD MS, Cuba
Carmen Pérez Romero PhD, Spain
Danev R. Pérez Valerino MS, Cuba
Rolando Pérez PhD, Cuba
Juan Pablo Pimentel González MD MS, Canada
María del Carmen Pría Barros MD MS PhD, Cuba
Luis Prieto Valiente PhD, Spain
Lourdes Pupo Portal MD, Cuba
Zahira A. Quiñones Tavarez MD PhD, USA
José Manuel Ramírez Aranda MD PhD, Mexico
Elsa Regalado Miranda MS, Cuba
Alina Rivero Valencia MS PhD, Cuba
Valentín S. Rodríguez Moya MD PhD, Cuba
Tania Roig Álvarez MD MS PhD, Cuba
Giovani A. Rojas Martelo MD MS PhD, Spain
Mario Rovere MD, Argentina
José Javier Sánchez Rodríguez MD PhD, Dominican Republic
Silvia Sánchez Ramón MD, Spain
Michele Santana Iglesias MD, Cuba
Luiz Antonio Santini Rodrigues da Silva MD MS, Brazil
Iván Sarmiento Combariza MS, Canada
F. Douglas Scutchfield MD FACPM FAAFP, USA
Gustavo Sierra González MD PhD, Cuba
Iván Darío Sierra Ariza MD PhD, Colombia
Luis Carlos Silva Ayçaguer PhD, Uruguay
Augusto Sola MD, USA
Patricia Nilda Soliz Sánchez MD, USA
Omaida F. Torres Herrera MD, Cuba
Enric Trullols Farreny, Spain
Rafael de Jesús Tuesca Molina MD MPH PhD, Colombia
Carmen Valenti Pérez MD MS, Cuba
Yamilé Valdés González MD, Cuba
Carlos Velayos MD, Spain
Pedro Véliz Martínez MD MS PhD, Cuba
Jorge Vigo Ramos MD MS PhD, Peru
Eugenio R. Villar Montesinos MD, Switzerland
Robert Yates PhD, UK
Grisel Zacca González DDS MS PhD, Cuba
Yaima Zúñiga Rosales MD, Cuba

We also thank Iván Cuevas-Valdespino MD MS MPH, epidemiologist, for his valuable review of research methodology in manuscripts submitted to MEDICC Review during 2018.

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