Spatial Heterogeneity in Fatal Overdose Rate Trends in Mexican Cities: 2005-2021.

To describe national and city-level fatal drug overdose trends between 2005 and 2021 in Mexico. We calculated fatal overdose rates at the city level in 3-year periods from 2005 to 2021 and annually at the national level for people aged 15 to 64 years in Mexico. We calculated rate differences and rate ratios for each city between periods.

Associated factors to non-medical and medical use of psychoactive medication among Mexican adolescents and adults in a national household survey.

Background: Non-medical use of psychoactive medication is a public health problem. Studies in other contexts indicate that individual sociodemographic characteristics are associated with non-medical use, but these associations have not been assessed in the Mexican context.

Objectives: To estimate the prevalence non-medical and medical use of psychoactive medication among Mexican adolescents and adults' medication users and to estimate the associations between sociodemographic characteristics and non-medical use of psychoactive medication, using data from a nationally representative sample.

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Objective: To analyze, from the perspective of intersectionality, the association of social inequality dimensions (occupation, poverty, and educational level) and socio-demographic and health characteristics with the proportion of depressive symptoms among males and females aged 50 years and older who participated in the 2001 and 2012 waves of the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS).

Materials And Methods: Descriptive analysis and logistic regression models stratified by sex were performed, including interaction terms between poverty, educational level, and employment conditions on the presence of depressive symptoms.

Results: The proportion of females with depressive symptoms was significantly higher than that of males in both waves.

Refining the estimation of amphetamine consumption by wastewater-based epidemiology.

Consumption of amphetamine and methamphetamine, two common illicit drugs, has been monitored by wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) in many countries over the past decade. There is potential for the estimated amount of amphetamine used to be skewed at locations where methamphetamine is also consumed, because amphetamine is also excreted to wastewater following methamphetamine consumption. The present study aims to review the available data in the literature to identify an average ratio of amphetamine/methamphetamine (AMP/METH) that is excreted to wastewater after methamphetamine consumption.

The economic costs of insomnia comorbid with depression and anxiety disorders: an observational study at a sleep clinic in Mexico.

Unlabelled: Significant advances documenting the costs associated with insomnia have been achieved. However, those related to insomnia associated with mood disorders remain understudied, even though insomnia is more severe in the presence of comorbid conditions such as depression and anxiety. The aim of this study was to determine the direct and indirect costs of insomnia associated with depression and anxiety disorders (DAD) from the perspective of the patient in a private healthcare system.

Impact of environmental and individual factors on COVID-19 mortality in children and adolescents in Mexico: An observational study.

Background: During the Covid-19 pandemic, children and adolescents faced poverty, potentially dying from preventable causes, or missing out essential vaccines. The aim of this study was to assess potential environmental and individual factors associated to COVID-19 mortality in children and adolescents in Mexico.

Methods: This cross-sectional study analysed the official data of 131,001 children under 10 years of age and adolescents between 10 and 19 years of age with COVID-19 disease, in Mexico.

Effects of air pollution and climatology on COVID-19 mortality in Spain.

Unlabelled: The health, economic, and social impact of COVID-19 has been significant across the world. Our objective was to evaluate the association between air pollution (through NO and PM levels) and COVID-19 mortality in Spanish provinces from February 3, 2020, to July 14, 2020, adjusting for climatic parameters. An observational and ecological study was conducted with information extracted from Datadista repository (Datadista, 2020).

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Objetivo. Describir la evidencia sobre la presencia e infectividad de SARS-CoV-2 y otros coronavirus en aguas residuales y su potencial uso como herramienta de vigilancia epidemiológica. Material y métodos.

Opioids, stimulants, and depressant drugs in fifteen Mexican Cities: A wastewater-based epidemiological study.

Background: Monitoring drug use in México is a challenge due to emerging drugs and rapid changes in consumption patterns. The temporal and geographical patterns of cocaine, methamphetamine, amphetamine, MDMA, cannabis, heroin, ketamine, and fentanyl were examined in Mexican cities using wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE).

Methods: 105 daily composite wastewater samples were collected from sewage treatment plants in fifteen Mexican cities.

Satisfaction With Healthcare Services Among Patients With Diabetes, Hypertension, and/or Dyslipidemia in Mexico: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Objectives: To examine the factors associated with satisfaction with healthcare services provided to patients with diabetes, hypertension, and/or dyslipidemia in the Mexican population.

Methods: In a cross-sectional, retrospective study, we used data from the 2016 Half-Way National Health and Nutrition Survey in Mexico (ENSANUT MC 2016). This contained self-reported information about patient satisfaction and use of healthcare services by 2529 adults.

[Assessing illicit drugs in wastewater: a pilot study in Mexico].

Objective: Monitor drug use through wastewater metabolite measurement.

Materials And Methods: Wastewater samples were obtained from 31 wastewater treatment plants and 95 sites with specific populations (38 schools, 42 units of addiction treatment and 15 penitentiaries). Using ultra high liquid chromatography, we measured nine metabolites from six drugs.

Survival After Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke: A 4-Year Follow-Up at a Mexican Hospital.

Background: Overall, 75.2% of deaths from stroke occur in low- and middle-income countries. Mexico is a middle-income country with little information about the prognosis of early and late postischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.

Evaluation of the Stroke-Specific Quality-of-Life (SSQOL) Scale in Mexico: A Preliminary Approach.

Objectives: The prevalence of stroke survivors with incomplete recovery in society has been estimated at 460/100,000 people, and one third of them require help in at least one daily activity. Two thirds of all deaths related to stroke in the world occur in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of the present work was to assess the reliability and validity of the previously translated Spanish Stroke-Specific Quality-of-Life (SSQOL) version 2.