[Aswer to "Comment on article "Bibliometric analysis of scientific publications on COVID-19 elaborated by staff of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social""].

We thank the group headed by Jorge Valencia Alonso for taking the time to review in detail and prepare the letter about our article entitled: " Bibliometric analysis of scientific publications on COVID-19 elaborated by staff of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social", which has recently been published in the Medical Journal of the Mexican Social Security Institute. Based on your observations and comments, we allow ourselves to make the following clarifications following the same sequence of your letter to the Editor.

[Bibliometric analysis of scientific publications on COVID-19 elaborated by staff of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social].

Background: Since the beginning of the pandemic, new knowledge about COVID-19 obtained by research has been disseminated in medical and scientific journals, but the large number of publications that have been generated in such a short time has been impressive.

Objective: To perform a bibliometric analysis of the published articles in medical-scientific journals carried-out by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) personnel on COVID-19.

Material And Methods: Systematic review of the literature, identifying the publications included in the PubMed and EMBASE databases, up to September 2022.

Relationship between social support and the physical and mental wellbeing of older Mexican adults with diabetes.

Objective: To determine the relationship between social support and certain indicators of physical and mental wellbeing in older adults with type 2 diabetes.

Material And Methods: We undertook a population-based cross sectional study of 705 adults with type 2 diabetes from the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS). Participants were randomly selected from a list of diabetic patients located in the south of Mexico City.