[Considerations concerning medical knowledge inherited in Mexico from 19th century: the diabetes mellitus case].

In Mexico, as in the entire Western world, during the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th century, medical knowledge developed in a remarkable way and the case of diabetes mellitus was not the exception. This situation, which arose on the basis of the antique paradigm, and which in turn was overthrown by the positivism as the emergent paradigm (with its clinical and anatomical, as well as physiopathological and etiopathological viewpoints), was reflected during the 19th the century through its actors and the communications that opened the access of Mexican medicine to the modernity.

[Maternal metabolic diseases related to pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity in mexican women with high risk pregnancy].

Introduction: Pre-pregnancy obesity has been proposed as a risk factor related to gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders during pregnancy.

Objectives: Identify pregnancy related diseases associated with pre-pregnancy obesity as a risk factor ina high risk preganancy patient population.

Methods: 600 patients whose pre-pregnancy obesity had been assessed as a high risk factor were included in the study.

[Adiposity percentage relationship with hormone receptors immunoreactive score in breast cancer mexican women].

Introduction: Adipose tissue is an important estrogen resource and they are involved in breast cancer development.

Objective: To establish the relationship between adiposity percentage and the estrogen and progesterone receptors immunoreactive score in Mexican women with breast cancer.

Methods: This is a transversal and analytical study.

[Cognitive anthropology applied to the study of the causes of arterial hypertension in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México].

Background: In medical anthropology, culture is shared knowledge and it can be used to study cultural consensus for development of preventive and control actions in chronic diseases such as high blood pressure. The aim of this study was to characterize the semantic structure and level of cultural consensus regarding the causes of arterial hypertension in persons >15 years of age belonging to families of laborers from "Colonia Fabrica de Atemajac."

Methods: Using a propositive sample of 36 persons >15 year of age of both genders and divided into three age groups, we conducted an anthropological study.

[Gender and metabolic control of type 2 diabetes among primary care patients].

Introduction: removing the biological perspective of the sexual differences and understanding the asymmetries related to diabetes, lead to define situations of benefit or deterioration of the population's health.

Objective: to analyze gender situations related to self-care and control of type 2 diabetes in primary care patients.

Methods: we conducted a descriptive observational study in 620 patients with diabetes at the family medicine clinic number 3 of Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social in Guadalajara, Mexico.

[Oral signs in patients with type-2 diabetes, hypertension and obesity].

Objective: To evaluate oral health in patients with type-2 diabetes, hypertension and obesity.

Material And Methods: Comparative cross-sectional study with a random conglomerate sample, constituted by 363 patients of primary care units in Guadalajara, with records of glycemia, blood pressure and body mass index. A questionnaire was applied to know sociodemographic data, as well as medical and oral state.