Objectives: Determine prevalence of obesity / overweight, physical activity (PA) and prediabetes in adult children of parents with type 2 diabetes; identify differences according to sociodemographic variables, and describe the relationship of obesity/overweight with fasting glucose (FG) and glycosylated hemoglobin (A1C).
Methods: Cross-sectional study in 30 Mexican families with 53 participating adult children. Obesity / overweight was determined with Body Mass Index (BMI), Waist Circumference (WC) and body fat percentage (BFP); PA with the short International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), and prediabetes with FG.
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.
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.
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.
Objective: To assess the prevalence of the oral lesions related to HIV-infection (HIV-OL) in HIV+/AIDS adolescents (=13 years old), and the differences with HIV+/AIDS children (=3 - <13 years old) perinatally infected.
Material And Methods: 25 HIV+/AIDS adolescents and 62 HIV+/AIDS children, undergoing Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, were orally examined. HIV-OL was diagnosed in accordance with EC-Clearinghouse-World Health Organization.
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.