Publications by authors named "Abraham Zonana-Nacach"
Background: Long-term sick leave by illeness is cause of financial expences and worker's loss of productivity.
Objective: To evaluate the financial expense incurred by spinal disk herniation in health professionals.
Methods: 3000 health professionals of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social work in Tecate, Tijuana and Rosarito, cities of Baja California, Mexico.
Objective: To describe the prenatal care (PC) received in women with maternal hospital deaths from 2005 to 2011 in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
Materials And Methods: Were reviewed the medical chars and registrations of the maternal deaths by the local Committees of Maternal Mortality.
Results: There were 44 maternal hospital deaths.
Purpose: Since few reports had been published on the prevalence of toxocariasis in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients with acute non-granulomatous anterior uveitis (ANGAU), the aim of this work was to determine the presence of antibodies against Toxocara canis in AS patients with ANGAU.
Methods: Thirty-six patients (14 female and 22 male) with AS were enrolled in the study. The history of ANGAU was accepted only if diagnosed by an ophthalmologist.
Background: If you consider that at some point in life 50% of sexually active women have had an infection with the human papilloma virus is indisputable that any attempt to reduce the prevalence worth undertaking it. The vaccine to prevent HIV infection has not enjoyed the same degree of acceptance than others, hence the interest in knowing some of the reasons that has not achieved universal vaccination.
Objective: To examine human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine acceptability among mothers with adolescents girls between 9 and 13 years old.
Background: hospitalists are physicians who focus all of their clinical efforts on the management of hospital inpatients.
Objective: to evaluate if the presence of hospitalist physicians is associated with a shorter length of stay (LOS).
Methods: hospitalized patients in the Internal Medicine Department of two second care government hospitals.
[Hospital readmission of diabetic patients: a follow-up of twelve months].
Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc
February 2011
Objective: To determine the risk factors associated with hospital readmissions in diabetes mellitus (DM).
Methods: Adult patients with DM hospitalized were evaluated with a follow up during one year. Odd ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were calculated to identify predictors of hospital readmissions.
Objective: Our aim is to describe the frequency of uveitis associated with rheumatic inflammatory autoimmune diseases (RIAD) in adult patients admitted to the Rheumatology Department at a tertiary-care hospital in Mexico City. We also describe the clinical features, seasonal distribution, treatment, and ocular complications associated with this disease.
Methods: We reviewed 1332 charts of patients with RIAD and selected those that had a diagnosis of uveitis.
Objective: Identify and correlate characteristics of adolescent mothers in a border city of Mexico with their migratory status.
Methods: We surveyed post partum adolescent mothers in the discharge rooms of two public hospitals in Tijuana, Mexico. We assessed obstetric, gynecologic, socioeconomic and neonatal variables.
Objective: Assess mother's perceptions of their children's weight.
Methods: Cross-sectional study. We included demographic variables and children's height and weight and used a series of sketches to assess the mother's perception.
[Oral autopsy in dead women from breast cancer].
Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc
September 2010
Objective: To discover, through the use of verbal autopsies, the primary characteristics of patients who have died of breast cancer (BCa).
Methods: We reviewed 105 death certificates where BCa was registered as the cause of death in a one-year period. A verbal autopsies instrument was designed for BCa, it was validated through expert consultation.
[Stress levels in health care workers from primary care units].
Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc
September 2010
Objective: To determine stress levels in health care workers (HCW) from Primary Care Units (PCU).
Methods: A descriptive study in HCW from two PCU was done to investigate stress in relation with environment, activity/occupation, relationship and lifestyle. The "Individual Evaluation Stress Inventory" was applied to 167 HCW from different job areas and categories.
[Associated risk factors in acute leukemia in children. A cases and controls study].
Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc
September 2010
Objective: To investigate the risk factors associated with childhood acute leukemia (CHAL).
Methods: During a year period 47 prevalent and incidental cases with CHAL and 47 controls (healthy children) were included. They were matched by gender, age (+/- 3 years) and residence area.
Objective: To evaluate the effects of gestational weight gain (GWG) on maternal and neonatal outcomes.
Materials And Methods: During 2009, women in the immediate puerperium were assessed at the Gynecology and Obstetrics Hospital in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. GWG was considered optimal when < or =18 kg, < or =16 kg, < or =11.
Objective: To evaluate the use of the Popular Insurance of health (PIH) during the pregnancy and the factors associated with its adquisicition.
Methods: From November of 2006 to January of the 2007, women in puerperal immediate hospitalized in the General Hospital of Tijuana, BC were invited to participate in the study. A direct interrogation through a structured questionnaire was applied, exploring sociodemographic variables, variables related to the pregnancy, trimester in which SPS was acquired, consumption of tobacco and alcohol, drug use, prenatal control, complications during the pregnancy, childbirth and time of hospital stay.
Purpose: To assess the frequency and factors associated with metabolic syndrome in adult female patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
Methods: During January and June 2006, 192 consecutive adult female patients seen during their scheduled appointment at the out-patient rheumatology clinic and meeting the American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for RA and SLE were invited to participate in this study. Sociodemographic, menopausal status, personal history of coronary heart disease, and physical activity were evaluated.